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Rep. Frank: Selection of Rev. Warren Is “Deeply Offensive”

HeadlineDec 22, 2008

President-elect Obama’s decision to select Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration continues to draw fierce criticism. Democratic Congressman Barney Frank, the firstly openly gay member of Congress, said Obama was making a mistake to invite Warren, a leading evangelical opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage. Frank said, “Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest. I found that deeply offensive and unfair.”

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