Racists Are Cheering Warren Pick

As Pam Spaulding has noted, it is perhaps telling in who is applauding Barack Obama's selection of Rick Warren to give the inauguration invocation. Who you might ask? Well for one, Tony Perkins at the Family Research Council. The same Tony Perkins with a history of dealing with Klu Klux Klan leader, David Duke. Now there's an example of being inclusive. Imagine if Obama invited David Duke to join him on inauguration day. How many black Americans would be beyond a little peeved? Yet Obama had no problem inviting someone who to the LGBT community is just as radioactive. Again, what the Hell was Obama thinking - assuming he was thinking? Here are a few highlights from Pam's House Blend:

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How's the whole fundie outreach thing going, Team Obama? Look at who's giving you praise for giving Rick Warren the mic at the inaugural -- Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the man who paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list.

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Here's some of Perkins' gushing over the Warren selection:
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President-elect Obama has asked the Reverend Rick Warren, pastor of California's Saddleback Church and bestselling author of The Purpose-Driven Life, to deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration next month. I'm heartened by his choice of one of America's leading evangelical pastors-who is pro-life and pro-marriage-for this honor.

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Rev. Warren spoke out vocally in support of Prop 8 in California saying, 'there is no need to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2 percent of our population ... This is not a political issue -- it is a moral issue that God has spoken clearly about.' . . . Let's hope that Rick Warren will use his channel of communication to the new President to press him for more pro-family policies-rather than simply being used by Mr. Obama to make political inroads with evangelicals.

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Gee, thanks so much Barack!