In addition to Rob's links below, make sure to read Sarah Posner. And as Steve Benen notes, even defenses based on crude political criteria are exceedingly unconvincing. It's unlikely in the extreme that Rick Warren's "purely symbolic" selection is going to attract any non-negligible number of reactionary evangelical voters, while slapping major Democratic constiuencies in the face surely carries its own risks. And worse, it elevates Warren's stature further, giving him "bipartsian" media credibility when he inevitably attacks any decent part of Obama's agenda. It's a dismaying choice, wrong on the merits and wrong on the politics.
Speaking of unconvincing defenses, some low comedy from the woman whose alleged support for gay and lesbian rights and reproductive freedom has long put the "effectively non-existent" in "nominal." The punchline: "I don't believe the image of the angry, spiteful gay is helpful to the gay rights cause." I strongly advocate finding some way of stripping law professors who constantly make excuses for bigots of crucial fundamental rights and we'll see how many of them don't start sounding "angry" or "spiteful."
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