Robert V. Thompson.
At a recent holiday party, one of our guests, congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, asked me what I thought about Barack Obama’s decision to ask Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation.
I answered, “Jan, I think it’s the wrong call.” She broke in, “to tell you the truth this decision breaks my heart. And many people have also told me the same thing.”
Congresswoman Schakowsky’s words sum it up. To choose Rick Warren is a denial of the pain of many LGBT people who helped Barack Obama to get elected.
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