Obama Pastor Pick Enrages the Left

Obama's choice of the evangelical minister Rick Warren to perform the invocation at his inauguration on January 20 was meant as an olive branch to social conservatives, but it has set off a wave of anger from the liberals who put him in the White House, especially gay-rights activists who are still furious at California's passage of Proposition 8 banning gay marriage. Over at AmericaBlog, John Aravosis catalogues the litany of liberal complaints. Warren has compared abortion to the Holocaust, gay marriage to incest and pedophilia, and himself favorably to James Dobson. Gay conservative Andrew Sullivan, who is an Obama fan, complains, "If anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now. He won't be as bad as the Clintons (who, among leading Democrats, could?), but pandering to Christianists at his inauguration is a depressing omen."