Bad Choice, Mr. President Elect

Rick Warren was chosen to deliver the invocation at the inauguration. Ok, ok, I don’t care so much about this person being a delusional woo; one person’s superstitious BS is pretty much the same as another. But the message I am hearing is that this sort of attitude is acceptable to Barack Obama:

As we’ve pointed out several times before, in 2004 Warren declared that marriage, reproductive choice, and stem cell research were “non-negotiable” issues for Christian voters and has admitted that the main difference between himself and James Dobson is a matter of tone. He criticized Obama’s answers at the Faith Forum he hosted before the election and vowed to continue to pressure him to change his views on the issue of reproductive choice. He came out strongly in support of Prop 8, saying “there is no need to change the universal, historical defintion 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.” He’s declared that those who do not believe in God should not be allowed to hold public office.

Frankly, I see this as the enabling of bigotry. I can not support the President Elect on this one. Warren is a disgrace, not an example.

Yes, he has done some good things (AIDS, poverty relief) but then again, so has Hamas.