Wait. Let me get this straight. No repeal of DOMA for at least four years. No repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell for at least two years. And no policy push on gay marriage ever.

But yes on amnesty for 12 million illegal Latino immigrants, already the only demographic that consistently supported Prop 8 and one that opposes gay marriage in inverse proportion to its degree of assimilation. And yes on sucking up to murderous gay haters in Iran and Syria while ratcheting up pressure on Israel, a country that unflinchingly protects gay rights and serves as a refuge for persecuted Arab homosexuals.

And now Rick Warren on the dais:

Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to perform the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges from a gay rights movement that – in the wake of a gay marriage ban in California – is looking for a fight... "Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans," the president of Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solomonese, wrote Obama Wednesday. "[W]e feel a deep level of disrespect when one of architects and promoters of an anti-gay agenda is given the prominence and the pulpit of your historic nomination."... The selection of Warren to preside at the inauguration is not a surprise move, but it is a mirror image of President Bill Clinton’s early struggles with issues of gay rights.

As a rule I'm skeptical of aggrievement from identity movements. And I have no game on the debate surrounding Warren. So maybe he's a genuine moderate. Although he kind of seems more like a squishy opportunist than a squishy pragmatist. And in any case this guy looks pretty stupid right now.

References and previously after the jump...