Rick Warren is progress

This is no time to scoff at liberal/progressive uproar over President-elect Barak Obama's selection of Rick Warren for the Inaugural Invocation.

It is instead important to acknowledge the degree to which Pastor Warren is a bridge between contradictory views.

He embraces civil unions, approval of which helped cost Richard Cizik his job as Washington lobbyist for the National Association of Evangelicals.

That isn't exactly a meeting of right and left, but it is a great deal farther than James Dobson, Richard Land and others on the religious right are willing to go.