QueerGam to Rick Warren: This is love!

Andrew Sullivan
It's shrewd politics, but if anyone is under any illusion that Obama is interested in advancing gay equality, they should probably sober up now.

Joe Solmonese, president, HRC
I feel a deep level of disrespect over Warren’s selection. By inviting Rick Warren to your (Obama) inauguration, you have tarnished the view that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans have a place at your table.

Warren’s support of California’s Proposition 8, a measure that bans same sex marriage in the state, drew the ire of many gay rights proponents during the election.

But Kathryn Kolbert, president of the the conservative People for the American Way, told CNN she, too, was “deeply disappointed” with the choice of Warren, adding that the highly visible invocation at inauguration should instead have been given to someone with “consistent mainstream American values.”