All Hands on Deck for Inaugural
William McKenzie, in The Dallas Morning News Opinion blog, chooses as the topic of the day the controversy over Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation prayer at the Inauguration. Warren is controversial because of his stand against gay marriage, especially his support for California's Proposition 8. McKenzie thinks the choice was a masterstroke by Obama, reaching out to a leader of a group, evangelical Christians, that voted against him in the election.
Look. The economy is in crisis. We're fighting two wars. Nuclear proliferation is accelerating. And, if that's not enough, the planet is in peril environmentally. Gay rights is important, but it's not the country's, nor Obama's, priority one, or two, or three, or even four. Obama's choice of Rick Warren signals that Obama wants all hands on deck for these priorities, no matter what side they take on the gay rights issue.
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