Gay leaders furious with Obama

Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges from a gay rights movement that – in the wake of a gay marriage ban in California – is looking for a fight. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 19, 2008

The story I'd anticipated on Obama's selection of Rick Warren as his inaugural speaker. For a standard news report, it quotes extensively from LGBT advocates, and seeks the appropriate comment from Warren and his church.

I'm disappointed that the Politico allowed Warren's statement to BeliefNet -- that he compares "'redefinition of a marriage' to include gay marriage to legitimizing incest, child abuse, and polygamy" -- to linger as if it were a legitimate view. But perhaps it speaks for itself.

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