The uproar from the Left has some credence. No matter the stance someone might have on gay marriage, there is a more specific problem. Warren is inflammatory. He refers to gays and lesbians as pedophiles. A woman who has had an abortion is no better than a Nazi, and all Jews will burn in Hell.
How would Obama cast this as bringing the country together? Why not David Duke? We can get everyone on board.
From Katha Pollitt at The LA Times (excerpt)
Rick Warren is an insulting choice
(excerpt)
Most Americans who've heard of Warren know him as the teddy-bearish, Hawaiian-shirted head of the Saddleback megachurch in Orange County and the author of "The Purpose Driven Life." Perhaps they also know he's the rare right-wing Christian pastor who sometimes talks about poverty and global warming and HIV. His concern for those issues has given him a reputation as a moderate and has made him the darling of Democratic Party think tanks, ever hoping to break the Republican lock on the white evangelical vote.
But on the signal issues of the religious right he is, as he himself has said, as orthodox as James Dobson.
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