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Rick Warren has the right to say whatever he wants, and if
Barack Obama wants to invite him to speak at the presidential
Inauguration, I can’t stop him. But when Barack Obama — known
for his thorough vetting — invites a man he’s had multiple
contacts with to speak at his inauguration, and when that man
has repeatedly expressed support for policies of bigotry along
lines of gender, sexual orientation and religion — plus the
whopper of God-Sanctioned Holy War — and when Barack Obama
explains his choice with a reasonable-people-can-agree-to-
disagree-reasonably argument, then such a choice sends a message
that these bigotries are reasonable. It communicates to
Americans that even if he does not exactly a