Obama Takes Heat for Inaugural Speaker

Frank Assessment

(Fox News) - Democratic Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts is upset with President-elect Obama's selection of the prominent Evangelical Minister Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation. The first openly-gay member of Congress said on Sunday's "Late Edition" on CNN: "Mr. Warren compared same-sex couples to incest. I found that deeply offensive and unfair... I think it was wrong to single him out for this mark of respect."

Last week Mr. Obama defended his decision after some in the gay community expressed outrage. He said Americans need to come together and that he was invited to speak at Warren's church despite a difference of opinion on the issue of gay marriage. Warren meanwhile applauded the president-elect saying, "I commend... his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base."