This morning the LA Times editorialized Obama's choice of Rick Warren to offer the invocation at his inauguration, saying something to the effect that it's just a prayer.
The Times missed the point. This is a missed opportunity, and it's a bad choice. While it may certainly be true that a president and her pastor may disagree on all sorts of issues, the historical record to which the Times turns does not include clergy people who are fresh off an anti-human rights campaign. Warren actively campaigned for proposition 8. That's his right, of course. But by choosing Warren to play a very public role in his inauguration, Obama cast doubt on his own rhetoric.
It's a shame. There are many of us who were hoping for change. There are many of us who are disappointed.
As for Warren...give me a break. The guy agrees with James Dobson on just about everything. He just does it in sheep's clothing.
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