(CREDIT: Richard Vogel / Associated Press)

I've largely stayed on the sidelines with my criticisms of Obama lately, hoping to give him the benefit of the doubt. Still, I can't help but be disappointed that our President-elect selected the Hawaiian-shirt-wearing, Jimmy Buffet of evangelicalism, Rick Warren, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.

Undoubtedly, Warren is the darling of the media. Last summer, his California-based megachurch (which is so huge bar code stickers are assigned to babies to avoid...