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I don’t know if you saw this, but our President-Elect Barack Obama is proving that he wants to work with conservatives (and evangelicals)<\/a> by asking Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. We are happy for Rick Warren, who has come under too much fire of late. Our post yesterday on fundamentalist flip-flopping helps explain the hue and cry against Obama by those in the Democratic Party. Inauguration Day is a day to demonstrate national unity, not partisanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know if you saw this, but our President-Elect Barack Obama is proving that he wants to work with conservatives (and evangelicals) by asking Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. We are happy for Rick Warren, who has come under too much fire of late. 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