1.0 link 152056 <![CDATA[Obama's Talking Points On Rick Warren]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/18/obamas-talking-points-on_n_152056.html At his press conference on Thursday, Barack Obama for the first time addressed the flurry of protest that has erupted over the choice of Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation.

Stressing his own advocacy of equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans, the president-elect raised a relevant anecdote from his biography as a defense.

"A couple of years ago I was invited to Rick Warren's church to speak despite his awareness that I held views that were entirely contrary to...

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