huffingtonpost.com - 12/19/2008
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( NOTE: Copies of what seemed to be a draft of an inaugural invocation by Pastor Rick Warren arrived in the fax machines of several prominent journalists this morning. This site does not vouch for the authenticity of the draft, although each of the statements does conform to material in Pastor ...
americablog.com - 12/22/2008
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americablog.com —
Deny me three times, Rick? So Rick Warren
pulled the anti-gay language from his church Web site....
The site used to explicitly ban gays from membership in the church. Now the offending language is gone , but you can still find the anti-gay language ...
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Rick Warren pulls anti-gay language from his Web site
juancole.com - 12/21/2008
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juancole.com —
I was in Long Beach,Ca. on Saturday for
the annual conference of the Muslim Public Affairs Council...
, where Pastor Rick Warren and I were both headliners . Also appearing on the stage Saturday evening were Melissa Etheridge and Salman Ahmad, singing ...
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Rick Warren: "I love Muslims . . . I happen to love ...
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Christmas is Almost Here Cocktail Time
Taylor Marsh —
... Next, Linda Hirshman has what could be a copy of Warren’s invocation. Consider me an unbeliever that this is the actual text. Here’s what HuffPost put before Linda’s post: (NOTE: Copies of what seemed to be a draft of an inaugural invocation by Pastor Rick Warren arrived in the fax machines of several prominent journalists this morning. This site does not vouch for the authenticity of the draft, although each of the statements does conform to material in Pastor Warren’s speeches, interviews, or on his websites.) This is one section of what Linda ...
Rick Warren’s Extremist Foes
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... This is partly due to ignorance on the part of the activist left - Warren is no partisan, no Falwell or Robertson, nor are the many Christians who read his work. When you see this kind of pompous tone-deafness - arising from such people as the Huffington Post’s Linda Hirshman, who penned an unfunny satire of Warren in which he describes the holocaust as “the German effort to bring [the Jews] to Christian truth” - you understand why the Democrats still lost nearly 75% of evangelicals in this past election. ...
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tmz.com 12/23/2008 — Filed under: Prez Election 2008 , Barack Obama Rick Warren, the pastor who will deliver the invocation next month for Barack Obama, apparently is doing a little image-adjusting in West Hollywood.We got this pic, taken yesterday at Out of the Closet ...
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thepage.time.com 12/18/2008 —
Obama's committee releases list of people participating in ceremony , including the leader of California's Saddleback Church.
Civil rights leader Joseph Lowery -- who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. -- will deliver benediction.
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washingtonpost.com 1/20/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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huffingtonpost.com 12/19/2008 — Barack Obama's decision to have Rick Warren deliver the inaugural invocation, will no doubt frustrate or infuriate many Obama supporters. In a recent interview with Beliefnet and the Wall Street Journal , Warren equated gay marriage to incest, ...
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First Read 12/19/2008
Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor whose inclusion at Obama’s inauguration has upset gay-rights supporters, released this statement last night: "I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat from his base by ...
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CNN.com - Politics 12/19/2008
If controversies were sitcoms, the ruckus over Barack Obama's decision to have the invocation at his inaugural ceremony given by Rick Warren -- bestselling author and pastor of the 20,000-member Saddleback Church in Southern California -- would be the ...
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