SoCons on Warren's Inaugaral Invocation

[bryant]

Quotes here. A few good bits:

"Mr. Warren school be ashamed of himself, protection of the unborn is the MOST IMPERATIVE issue as a Christian!!!!!"

"Unless Rick Warren has changed, he is very disappointing in the pro-life cause."

"I have had about all I can stand of Rick Warren's double standards. WHOSE side is he really on anyway?"

Personal opinion: I wish Warren wasn't speaking. I am not surprised that Obama would pick Warren as one of the two religious figures to speak; it's consistent with both his campaign's approach to gay rights and his political strategies. So I can't say I'm disappointed. I also think that it'll be a small wedge in the Republican coalition, which is OK as silver linings go.

Comments

[death-by-monkey.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm pretty rabidly anti-Prop 8, but Warren did not strip rights from gay Californians. A majority of voters in California stripped rights from gay Californians. Warren was in support of this, yes. But it's wildly inaccurate to say that he did it. Let's lay the blame where it's due. We can be mad at Warren for his support of this and feel betrayed that Obama is implicitly supporting this by including Warren - that's justified (as mentioned above, I agree that it's a fairly short-sighted view that's missing the big picture, but I think the feelings are justified).