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So Obama has chosen Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration ceremony.

a href="http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/503643.aspx"How interesting! A clever choice./a It made me go to go back to my notes on the Saddleback Forum, the hour-long interviews that Obama and McCain gave to Rick Warren back in August. I liked Warren's style and thought Obama had a good little talk with him. Obama obviously has a problem going back to his own spiritual mentors, and this is a good chance to show some warmth to the Christian evangelicals that he offended with his a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/Obama_on_smalltown_PA_Clinging_religion_guns_xenophobia.html"unfortunate remark about bitter Americans clinging to religion/a.br /br /a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/12/ugh.html"Andrew Sullivan says/a "Ugh":br /blockquoteWarren is a man who believes my marriage removes his freedom of speech and cannot say that authorizing torture is a moral failing. Shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now. He won't be as bad as the Clintons (who, among leading Democrats, could?), but pandering to Christianists at his inauguration is a depressing omen. More evidence that a civil rights movement needs to realize that no politician can deliver for us what we have to deliver on our own./blockquoteWho needs span style="font-style: italic;"omens/span when span style="font-style: italic;"Obama was always clear/span that he opposed same-sex marriage? He said so every time he was asked. It's funny that Sullivan is telling span style="font-style: italic;"other people/span to "sober up," when he was the one who was most span style="font-style: italic;"un/spansober about Obama during the campaign season.br /br /ADDED: a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16693.html""The rapid, angry reaction from a range of gay activists comes as the gay rights movement looks for an opportunity to flex its political muscle."/adiv class="blogger-post-footer"link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a/div

Full post as published by Althouse on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).