Liliana Segura, AlterNet. March 5, 2009. Obama is adding religious advisers to the executive branch and kicking off events with prayers vetted by his staff.
Bruce Wilson, AlterNet: PEEK. January 17, 2009. In stadium with 30K people, Rick Warren Called for revolution & asked for Christians to model devotion of Hitler Youth
Lisa Derrick, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. January 15, 2009. This is so beyond reasonable, acceptable, inclusionary, kumbaya or whatever the reason Obama said, "Hey Pastor Rick, give the invocation."
Digby, Hullabaloo AlterNet: PEEK. January 15, 2009. I always find it astonishing that so many people say they could never vote for an atheist, but they can vote for people like this.
Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. January 12, 2009. Someone more cynical than I, ahem, might suggest that this is an indication that Team Obama knows they fucked up big time with Warren.
Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast. January 8, 2009. Team Obama likes to cite Warren's work on AIDS in Africa to combat criticism about the controversial pastor. But how does burning condoms save lives?
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. December 28, 2008. Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake thinks "God will punish" Rick Warren for appearing at the Obama inauguration.
Richard Kim, The Nation. December 26, 2008. Obama and Warren both oppose gay marriage, yet say they support full equal rights for gays and lesbians -- let's push for a federal civil unions bill.
Lisa Derrick, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2008. "From the very beginning of creation, God gave man dominion over all that was made, even over the dinosaurs."
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. December 24, 2008. Progressives are right to hold the line against Warren's bigoted positions on abortion and homosexuality.
Stephen Elliott, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2008. The reality is that, at some point, Obama's likely to do something much worse than invite Rick Warren to speak at his inauguration.
Amie Newman, RH Reality Check. December 22, 2008. Rick Warren, the anti-choice pastor to speak at Obama's inauguration, is not a man who symbolizes common ground.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 22, 2008. Warren's Saddleback Church has taken down statements that said "someone unwilling to repent for their homosexual lifestyle" would not be accepted.
John Aravosis, Linda Hirshman, Huffington Post. December 20, 2008. Satire: Why Obama invited the pastor who compared gay marriage to pedophilia and incest and led the fight for Prop 8 in CA to his inauguration.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 19, 2008. What are we left with here? We are left with the cold, hard political fact that this is a lose-lose proposition for Barack Obama.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. December 18, 2008. In an interesting twist, plenty of conservatives are mad, not at Obama for inviting Warren, but at Warren for accepting the invitation.
Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Media and Technology. December 18, 2008. The press may now have its conflict moment. And it comes in the form of the spiritual leader chosen to launch Obama's inauguration.
Sarah Posner, TheNation.com. December 18, 2008. A very strange pick -- Pastor Rick Warren opposes gay marriage, doesn't believe in evolution and compared abortion to the Holocaust.
PZ Myers, Pharyngula AlterNet: Video. December 17, 2008. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? (Update: Rev. Joseph Lowery, a supporter of same-sex marriage, is giving the benediction).
