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NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday on Rick Warren: The Purpose-Driven Pastor

By PFLAG Boulder County | Published: January 18, 2009
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, January 18, features a story about President Elect Barack Obama’s choice to deliver his inaugural invocation, Rick Warren. “Warren hasn’t budged an inch on abortion or homosexuality. He quietly supported California’s Proposition 8, which barred gay marriage. Later, he drove the point home in an interview with Steve Waldman of theWall [...]
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Gay but Equal? Mary Frances Berry in the New York Times

By PFLAG Boulder County | Published: January 16, 2009
AS the country prepares to enter the Obama era, anxiety over the legal status and rights of gays and lesbians is growing. Barack Obama’s invitation to the Rev. Rick Warren, an evangelical pastor who opposes same-sex marriage, to give the invocation at his inauguration comes just as the hit movie “Milk” reminds us of the [...]
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Op-Ed Columnist – You’re Likable Enough, Gay People

By PFLAG Boulder County | Published: December 28, 2008
In his Sunday editorial for the New York Times, Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich analyzes Obama’s choice of Rick Warren, pastor of the conservative evangelical Saddleback Church, to deliver the invocation at the Presidential inauguration. Following is an excerpt from the editorial, with a link to the entire article.  In his first press conference after his [...]
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E. J. Dionne Jr. – Obama’s Invitation to Warren Is a Risk Worth Taking – washingtonpost.com

By PFLAG Boulder County | Published: December 23, 2008
By inviting Pastor Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation, President-elect Barack Obama has alienated some of his friends on the left. By accepting, Warren has enraged some of his allies on the right. Obama and Warren have helped each other in the past, and both know exactly what they’re doing. If you’re on the [...]
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Richard Cohen – Obama’s Choice of Rick Warren Ruined a Party

By PFLAG Boulder County | Published: December 23, 2008
Warren On? Party Off.  By Richard Cohen Tuesday, December 23, 2008 Not that he was planning to attend, but Barack Obama should know that my sister’s inauguration night party — the one for which she was preparing Obama Punch — has been canceled. The notice went out over the weekend, by e-mail and word of [...]
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The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama

By PFLAG Boulder County | Published: December 20, 2008
From TIME magazine: About three years ago, a reporter at Fortune asked Rick Warren, the successful pastorwhom the President-elect has asked to pray at his Inauguration, about homosexuality. “I’m no homophobic guy,” Warren said. His proof? He has dined with gays; he has a church “full of people who are caring for gays who are dying of AIDS”; he [...]
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