Julian E. Zelizer: Zelizer’s Book Corner: Frank Lambert’s Religion in American Politics

Posted on | January 14, 2009 |

When Reverend Rick Warren handles the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration next week, the day after we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, many Democrats will be disappointed and hurt, even with the recent announcement that the progressive minister Sharon Watkins will give the sermon at the national prayer service on the day following the inauguration. When Obama selected Warren, an outspoken social conservative — who supported the campaign against gay marriage in California and has made numerous disparaging comments about homosexuals and women — to give the invocation at the inauguration, many of Obama’s supporters were furious

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