Obama picks Rick Warren for his inaugural invocation? Huh?

I was as frustrated as this article's author when I heard Rick Warren, conservative evangelical fundamentalist Christian megachurch pastor, anti-evolution and vacuous circular logic-espousing book author, had been picked to be part of the Obama inauguration. WTF, Obama? I know you're a Christian but this guy and his congregation are exactly the kind of homophobic, hypocritical and fascist people that McCain/Palin were chasing after and who fervently stoke fires of fear and imaginary persecution to achieve power so that they may legislate their morality upon everyone. I praise Obama's quest for inclusive politics but Warren and pals are enemies of change and proponents of exclusion. They and their neo-con counterparts in D.C. achieve only destruction, death and division while waving a false banner of universal love. FAIL. Dump Warren. Dump this inclusion of religion and prayer at this historic inauguration. Dump the evangelism-fueled hatred, bigotry and triumphalism Warren and his cohorts represent. Let's move forward for CHANGE.

clipped from www.thenation.com What's the Matter With Rick Warren? Now it has officially gone too far: Democrats, in their zeal to appear friendly to evangelical voters, have chosen celebrity preacher and best-selling author Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration. Warren represents the absolute worst of the Democrats' religious outreach, a right-winger masquerading as a do-gooder anointed as the arbiter of what it means to be faithful.