Barney Frank on Warren Pick
Jim Burroway
December 18th, 2008

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/12/18/7504

Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) just sent out this statement on Obama's selection of Rick Warren to offer the Inaugural invocation:

    I am very disappointed by President-elect Barack Obama's decision to honor Reverend Rick Warren with a prominent role in his inauguration. Religious leaders obviously have every right to speak out in opposition to anti-discrimination measures, even in the degrading terms that Rev. Warren has used with regard to same-sex marriage. But that does not confer upon them the right to a place of honor in the inauguration ceremony of a president whose stated commitment to LGBT rights won him the strong support of the great majority of those who support that cause.