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Others at the meeting recommended a middle ground, suggesting that awareness and counterprotest events should be held, but indoors, away from the church group picketers...
...Obama, who risks lending ammunition to critics who say religion remains a secondary issue for the Democratic party. DuBois, who campaigned heavily for Obama's controversial selection of Evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his Inauguration, will also need to deftly navigate the Constitutional separations between church and state that limn his new position. Supporters say the young pastor has an uncanny ability for building relationships with religious leaders of various stripes. He's certainly built one with the President...
...Born in Bar Harbor, Me. and raised in Nashville, Tenn. and Xenia, Ohio. DuBois' stepfather is a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; his grandmother took part in the 1960 Nashville...
...Became an associate pastor at a Massachusetts church while still an undergraduate...
...Helped engineer Obama's participation in Rick Warren's Presidential Forum during the campaign, as well as the decision to tap the Saddleback church pastor for Obama's Inaugural invocation. The choice of Warren, who has espoused controversial views on topics ranging from gay marriage to political assassination, was maligned by many Democrats...