Atrios has exactly the right idea.

If you're at the inauguration, turn your back on Warren when he speaks.

I'll add: if you're watching on television, turn it off or change the channel for five minutes when  Warren's on.

It's a decent way to express dissatisfaction with this decision. If enough people do it and if Warren is really as thoughtful a guy as his supporters suggest then maybe the pastor will see a reason to rethink his position. People like him want us to hear him talk about spirituality, after all. We should signal to him, and all those like him, that we're not going to hear it from people who are on the wrong side of a major unresolved civil rights issue.

A lot of religious people have problems with homosexuality, especially with the idea of same sex marriage.  But I can't believe that Barack Obama can't find a supporter of same sex marriage rights to give the invocation at his inaugural.  Rich Warren?  Really?  Why?

I'm sorry but I don't understand Barack Obama's tolerance for intolerance from men of the cloth.  Jeremiah Wright supported Prop 8.  Donnie McClurkin thinks homosexuality is a curable condition. Every time something like this happens, social liberals such as myself get loud about it and are told to chill out.

Now there is one reason to chill: I'm absolutely sure that Obama is smart enough to know that the government has an obligation to treat same sex couples equally under the law and that Obama is way too smart to be a homphobe or anything like that.

I have no such faith in Warren, Wright of McClurkin though and I have to wonder why Obama just never seems to think this issue is serious enough that he'd actually do something about it.  Wright's view on Prop 8 is far more offensive than anything he might have said after 9/11 but you wouldn't see Obama leaving Trinity over something like Prop 8.  McClurkin only appeared with the campaign once but Obama didn't think the man's insulting views about homosexuals were worth too much worry.  Now this with Warren?  What gives?

Can Obama really not find a pastor who is an actual social progressive to deliver the invocation?

This is a truly lame choice and Obama's behavior on this matter is starting to suggest a very annoying pattern. It's not one of homphobia, either.  It's one of damnable tolerance for the last acceptable form of bigotry in the United States.