Gay leaders furious with Obama

The Politico by Ben Smith, Nia-Malika Henderson | Dec. 18, 2008 (News Report)

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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by Fabrice Florin - Dec. 18, 2008

“Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans. [W]e feel a deep level of disrespect when one of architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination.”

Joe Solomonese, the president of Human Rights Campaign.