By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
Earlier this week, I started a tally of prominent social conservatives praising socially liberal President-elect Barack Obama. The starting number was seven.
The interview I posted yesterday with Southern Baptist Convention public policy chief Richard Land included praise for Obama's selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration:
It was a sign that [Obama] is not going to let the minority marginalize the majorities. The marginal position is support for same-sex marriage. To marginalize Rick Warren's position is absurd, and the president-elect is smart enough to know that.
That makes eight prominent social conservatives complimenting Obama just in the past week or so:
1. Rick Warren (Purpose-Driven Life author and megachurch pastor)
2. Pat Robertson (Christian Broadcasting Network founder)
3. Franklin Graham (president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association)
4. Tony Perkins (Family Research Council president)
5. William Kristol (Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist)
6. Douglas Kmiec (White House counsel to President Reagan and George H. W. Bush)
7. Richard Cizik (former chief lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals)
8. Richard Land (president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission)
Let me know if I missed anyone.
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