politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 12/17/2008
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Rick Warren hosted a presidential forum in August.
(CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony will feature...
big names like minister Rick Warren and legendary singer Aretha Franklin, the Congressional Committee on Inaugural ...
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Rick Warren to give inaugural invocation
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/18/2008
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Obama, at his presser today, defends the decision
to choose Rick Warren to deliver the invocation as...
his inauguration with a restatement of his commitment to gay rights and, more broadly, to the principles of unity that have been a hallmark of his ...
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Obama On Rick Warren Pick: We Have To Be Able To Agree ...
youtube.com - 12/17/2008
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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-warren-surprises- nobody-his-support-prop-8"New Evangelical" leader Rick Warren comes out
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Rick Warren Endorses Prop 8 (video)
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Obama On Rick Warren
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Via TPM, at this morning's presser, Obama was asked about extending an invitation to Warren, and here's video of his response (full transcript, including the question and the tail end of his comment, which is missing from TPM's transcript, is below): There's so much wrong with this statement, I hardly know where to begin, but the most obvious problem is that Obama is playing the same game that anti-choicers and homobigots have been playing for decades, which is pretending that both sides of the abortion issue and the same-sex marriage issue are equivalent, and they are not. The ...
Paul Jenkins: Mr. Obama Disagrees
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
You can disagree about the propriety of the auto industry bailout. You can disagree about free trade. You can disagree about a lot of things. But when you say gay people are pedophiles and rapists, that is not a simple disagreement: it is a stupid, hateful position that, say, a President-elect should stay miles away from.
Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is, if possible, even worse. He shrinks Warren's grotesque comparisons down to a "disagreement," as if we were talking about ethanol subsidies. But we are not. In fact, we are not even talking about marriage rights, we are talking ...
More on Barack Obama, Post-Partisanship and Billy Graham 2.0
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Via Sully, Erica Barnett has compiled some of the many not-so-inclusive views held by Obama’s new spiritual BFF, required reading for those who still don’t get why including Rick Warren in the Inauguration ceremony has provoked such an outcry from the left side of the ...
Lynda Resnick: The Unwarranted Talk About Warren
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Reverend Rick Warren was speaking at the 2005 Aspen Institute Ideas Festival. I had taken the afternoon off to finish the preparations on our annual dinner, which hosts the event's speakers, when my husband suddenly burst into the room, exclaiming something I had long suspected. "You know, you're not going to heaven," Stewart informed me, as shocked as if he'd just heard it announced on MSNBC.
"Yeah, I know, but how did you finally figure it out?" I asked. Stewart went on to explain that Warren had just stated that unless I accepted Jesus Christ as my savior, I wouldn't be welcome across the threshold of the Pearly Gates "Who cares?" I threw up my hands, then added, with ...
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Obama: We have to be able to agree to disagree
americablog.com 12/18/2008 — Obama said the following today regarding the brewing Rick Warren controversy: I am fierce advocate for equality for gay and -- well, let me start by talking about my own views. I think it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay ...
Obama tries to explain Rick Warren
crooksandliars.com 12/18/2008 — (h/t FDL) Here's what Obama had to say about Rick Warren: Mr. Obama himself responded to the growing controversy when prompted by a question during a news conference today designed to announce a trio of financial regulators. The president-elect ...
Obama hearts Rick Warren
crooksandliars.com 12/18/2008 — Say,what?
President-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony will feature big names like minister Rick Warren and legendary singer Aretha Franklin, the Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday. Warren, the prominent ...
The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama
time.com 12/19/2008 — About three years ago, a reporter at Fortune asked Rick Warren the successful pastor whom the President-elect has asked to pray at his inauguration about homosexuality. "I'm no homophobic guy," Warren said. His proof? He had dined with gays; he ...
Rick Warren Purpose of Christmas Interview
beliefnet.com 12/17/2008 — Steven Waldman Interviews Rick Warren Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of "The Purpose of Christmas," spoke with Beliefnet Editor-in-Chief Steven Waldman at the offices of our partner, The Wall Street Journal. BY: Steven Waldman ...
Obama Defends Rick Warren Pick
blogs.abcnews.com 12/18/2008 — ABC NEWS' SUNLEN MILLER REPORTS: At this morning’s press conference at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, President-elect Obama was asked about his choice of Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his swearing-in during the inauguration - a choice...
Obama Defends Rev. Warren Selection —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/18/2008
Susan Davis reports on politics.
President-elect Barack Obama has come under fire from gay rights groups and others since the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies announced Wednesday that Rev. Rick Warren will give the ...
McCain pollster revisits '08 campaign —
First Read 12/18/2008
From NBC's Mark Murray As Republican pollster Bill McInturff sees it, two differences would have made last month's presidential contest much closer -- had the financial collapse occurred on Dec. 15 instead of Sept. 15, and had the Republican ...
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