Just 2 percent to 3 percent of Americans are gay- or lesbian-identified, but they sure make a lot of noise.
When President-elect Barack Obama invited the Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration, outrage from the homosexual-activist community followed — in the form of countless blog posts, commentaries and news articles.
Warren, who is the pastor of Saddleback Church in California, said he commends Obama "for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn't agree on every issue, to offer the invocation."
"The Bible admonishes us to pray for our leaders," Warren said. "I am honored by this opportunity to pray God's blessing on the office of the president and its current and future inhabitant, asking the Lord to provide wisdom to America's leaders during this critical time in our nation's history."
— Jennifer Mesko
