Has Obama's office made any response to the outrage over Warren's role in the inauguration?

[Dangerously Amused]

Certainly by now they are aware of the issue; have they made any comments in defense of, or in an effort to explain, their choice?

Please, NOT trying to start any flame wars here. I am just curious and haven't seen or heard anything in this respect yet.

(Please forgive me if this is a dumb question, I haven't been able to keep up with the news as much as I would like to lately.)

Thanks.

[Muttocracy]

1. search DU for Obama defends Warren and you'll get lots of info. nt

[Dangerously Amused]

2. Thanks. I will try that.

I did do a google search but there was so much irrelevant stuff that came up that I kind of gave up on it. Maybe I needed better search terms.

[Critters2]

3. He made comments in defense of it at one presser--

"We need to work with people who disagree with us." and "I'm a fierce advocate for gay rights." Since then, the fierce advocate has stuck his fingers in his ears, commenting "Lalalala...I can't hear you!".

[1776Forever]

4. Obama's Talking Points On Rick Warren from Huffington Post......

This is all I could find on it so far:

Sam Stein
December 18, 2008

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 his when it came to gay and lesbian rights, when it came to issues like abortion," he said. "Nevertheless I had an opportunity to speak, and that dialogue I think is part of what my campaign's been all about, that we're not going to agree on every single issue, but what we have to do is to be able to create an atmosphere where we can disagree without being disagreeable, and then focus on those things that we hold in common as Americans."

[Dangerously Amused]

5. Thank you! That's the kind of info I was looking for.

[NWHarkness]

6. Axelrod, on MTP yesterday

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16884.html

[Starry Messenger]

10. I read that today.

Disappointing but expected.

[leftofthedial]

7. inclusion

basically, he says he likes fundie bigots more than he likes gay people who want to get married.

[GarbagemanLB]

8. Yes. That is EXACTLY what he is saying.

:rofl:

[CakeGrrl]

9. Practically verbatim!

I could almost feel Obama's contempt for the GLBT community oozing through that paragraph.

:wtf: