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My mind is spinning with three possible reasons for the president elect’s dreadfully poor choice for the inauguration invocation: 1) an uncharacteristic lapse in judgment, 2) a misguided strategy to look "inclusive" by an administration under intense pressure not to be exclusionary or, 3) wholesale support of a slap-in-the-face religious ideology against gay Americans.
I supported this administration with excitement and resources, and I am politically astute enough to understand that nobody gets everything they want from their president in a country as complex and dynamic as this one. But Mr. Warren and his high-profile mean-spirited, divisive, and superstitious beliefs have breached the walls of public policy, and now he’ll stand before the world on January 9th to bless an administration that promises to change this sort of thing. Surely, there was a better choice.
