A purpose driven opportunity

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A purpose driven opportunity

By Anthony McCarthy
Examiner Guest Columnist 1/4/09

http://www.baltimoreexaminer.com/opinion/010409mccarthy.html

It's hard to explain but on Election Day the world changed.

Given the horrible stain of slavery on America's history, electing a black man to be the leader of the free world says volumes about our country and how far we've come.

I maintained a strict objectivity in my role as a host on public radio. A lot of my friends expressed their frustration. They knew I supported Barack Obama.

I would explain that my job was to present the facts and allow the public to make up their own minds. They didn't care about my media scruples. Either I was on board or I was simply helping elect John McCain.

A ministerial colleague called me when it was announced that evangelical leader Rick Warren was set to deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration.

She was inconsolable.

She used phrases like religious bigot, homophobe, intolerant and shameful. "Obama betrayed the millions of gays and lesbians who voted for him," she ranted.

And then I said it.

I really like Rick Warren.