More Media Coverage of Rick Warren Inaugural Controversy

December 19, 2008 by Justin Cole, GLAAD's Director of Digital Media

MSNBC: MSNBC News Live – Rick Warren & The Inauguration
12.18.08 04:43 pm – PFAW’s Kathryn Kolbert, The American Prospect’s Ezra Klein, and Townhall.com’s Amanda Carpenter debate Obama’s selection of Rick Warren as an inaugural speaker. Kolbert: “We’re disappointed with the choice of pastor Warren primarily because he is opposed to many of the key constituents of the Obama electorate.”

MSNBC: MSNBC News Live – Rick Warren Invocation
12.18.08 01:59 pm – NBC News correspondent Chuck Todd says Obama’s decision to have pastor Rick Warren give the invocation at his inauguration is “almost like a final straw in what has been a very tense relationship between major gay Democratic power players and the Obama world. ”

MSNBC: MSNBC News Live – Ann Curry & Rev. Warren
12.18.08 12:20 pm – Dateline co-host Ann Curry talks about her interview with Rick Warren. Curry claims that Warren was “worried” that if Prop. 8 failed, “it would prevent him from getting up on the pulpit and speaking out against same-sex marriage,” even though the Calif. marriage decision had nothing to do with clergy.

ABC: The View – Elisabeth Hasselback on Rick Warren
12.18.08 11:17 am – The hosts of The View debate Rick Warren giving the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. Elisabeth Hasselback claims Rick Warren “is a great choice,” saying, “potentially maybe what President-elect Obama is trying to do is diminish the sort of negative cast that’s on Christian evangelicals.”