The interwebs are aflutter with liberal outrage to Rick Warren's inaugural invocation.Ambers defends Obama from the Human Rights Campaign's blistering criticism. Nice conclusion.
I probably disagree with upwards of 90% of Rick Warren's views. He's a statist and a Christianist, diametrically opposed to my libertarianism and atheism.
However, I'm not the only person in America. Rick Warren lives here too. The president of these United States is the president of a great many people, a sizeable subgroup of which identify with the views of one Rick Warren.
It's true that the hypocritically bigoted intolerance of people like Warren is indisputably bad in the eyes of anyone with a sufficiently developed & intellectually honest belief in equality. But people like him must have a place at the table.
It's difficult to convince a patient in denial that they need treatment if all you do is shout down their concerns.
Meanwhile, Jon Henke has the cynical take from the right.
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