Obama, Warren defy culture war.(CENTURY news)(Barack Obama and Rick Warren)

The Christian Century | January 27, 2009| | Copyright

When President Barack Obama tapped megachurch pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, many liberal activists decried the choice of a high-profile evangelical figure who has opposed gay marriage and abortion rights. It did not matter to them that civil rights veteran Joseph Lowery, a backer of same-sex marriage, was picked by Obama to deliver the benediction at the January 20 ceremony.

To critics who deemed Warren a symbolically bad choice, Obama responded in mid-December by saying that he himself is "a fierce advocate of equality for gay and ...

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