Besides filling Cabinet posts, President-elect Barack Obama has been announcing the program for next month's inauguration ceremonies. A lot of controversy followed the announcement that Pastor Rick ...

President-elect Barack Obama's choice of conservative Christian minister Rick Warren to give the inauguration invocation conforms perfectly with the president-elect's pledge of inclusiveness. The ...

IT’S UNDERSTANDABLE that gay rights activists would be hot about President-elect Barack Obama asking California Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inauguration invocation. The evangelical superstar ...

Poor Rick Warren. After President-elect Obama selected the evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, gays and liberals kicked up a ruckus. I bet the California megachurchster ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Rev. Rick Warren has delivered the inaugural invocation, saying Barack Obama's election as the nation's first black president represents a pivotal point in history. Calling ...

San Francisco Gavin Newsom (D), a strong backer of gay marriage rights, said that President-elect Obama’s inclusion of gay marriage opponent Rick Warren at the inauguration can serve as a chance to ...

WASHINGTON – Gay rights advocates are criticizing President-elect Barack Obama's choice of a popular evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, saying it shows disrespect for ...

CHICAGO — Calling on Americans to "come together, even though we may have disagreements on certain social issues," President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday defended his choice of conservative ...

When Barack Obama chose anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-porn Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, gays and lesbians—still smarting from Prop 8—were understandably upset. Well, I thought ...

Warren is the pastor of Saddleback Community Church and writer of "The Purpose Driven Life" who hosted a forum with Obama and his Republican rival, John McCain, before the November election. Some ...