TheLastManInAmerica

Is it a “huge mistake” as one editor put it? Barack Obama’s choice to let über-conservative evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is drawing a lot of flack from liberals and the gay community but should we be surprised by this for any other reason than Obama sticking to his word?

We’ve all known the president-elect doesn’t support gay marriage, which is one of the reasons that I did not vote for him, but picking a man so opposed to abortion rights to lead him into office seems a little crazy, right? Not entirely. Lest we forget, one of Obama’s strategies during the campaign was to reel in some evangelical christians who may have been displeased with Republican candidate John McCain.

If anything, I think we should be surprised that he really meant it and wasn’t just looking to them for their votes.