from SLATE: >The LA [TIMES] and NY [TIMES] both dedicate stories in their inside pages to >news that the Rev. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose-Driven Life, will >deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration. The NYT says that the role >positions Warren "to succeed Billy Graham as the nation's pre-eminent >minister." The choice immediately raised the ire of gay rights groups that are >angry about Warren's support for California's Proposition 8, which banned >same-sex marriages. The director of a gay rights organization characterized >the decision to include Warren in the inauguration as a "slap in the face to >millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people who donated for, >worked for and helped elect Barack Obama president."<
Maybe this is a response to the "letter" by the right-wing Focus on the Family (published in the recent HARPERS) written as if it were from a "Christian" in 2012 about how Obama was in effect going to de-Christianize the US? -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
