Rick Warren Invocation as Vintage Obama

Lee Stranahan: Embrace What You Have In Common With Rick Warren

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Lee Stranahan: Apparently, Barack Obama meant what he said about our politics being too small for our problems. Like my comrades, I think Warren is dead wrong on same sex marriage. But the reality is that at the end of 2008, a majority of voters in California agreed with him. A majority of Americans agree with Warren about same sex marriage and many more states have made marriage equality unconstitutional than have ratified it. So Warren isn't out of the mainstream. He seems to agree broadly with the position of Barack Obama, John Edwards and Hillary Clinton in supporting equal legal rights but not gay marriage. Just to underline this again - I think they are all wrong but I also recognize I'm in the minority on this. I don't understand how anyone who listened to Obama during the campaign would be shocked that Obama lets Warren give the invocation. It's vintage Obama. Click here to read more.

Steven Waldman: In Defense of Rick Warren

I respect Warren and believe he has earned his status at the top of the evangelical heap. Obama was wise to ask him to deliver the invocation at the inauguration.

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