maxblumenthal.com - 1/9/2009
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Once hailed by Time magazine as “America’s Pastor,” California mega-church leader and bestselling author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren now finds himself on the defensive. President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of Warren to deliver the inaugural prayer has generated intense ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/15/2009
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On April 17, 2005, at the southern California
Anaheim Angels sports stadium thirty thousand Saddleback Church members,
more than ever gathered in one spot, assembled to celebrate Saddleback's 25th anniversary and listened as Rick Warren ...
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Bruce Wilson: Follow Jesus Like Nazis Followed Hitler, ...
concordmonitor.com - 1/12/2009
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New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, an outspoken,
international gay rights leader, has been asked to give
a prayer at one of President-elect Barack Obama's first inauguration events at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The ...
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N.H. bishop invited to D.C. to give prayer
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Rick Warren, moderate
The Reality-Based Community —
... stem cell research is so evil that "purpose-driven" people have to oppose politicians who support it. Torture, not so much . Warren thinks that my fellow atheists and I are automatically unfit to hold public office, because we're "arrogant" (unlike, of course, people who think they have a direct pipeline to God and therefore can tell the rest of us what God wants us to do). Warren thinks mainstream Protestantism is "Marxism in Christian clothing." Warren's work on AIDS in Africa consists largely of promoting AIDS in Africa by opposing effective ...
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees
SteveAudio —
... , and the smiling front-man for intolerably cruel and stupid policies. Intellectually and morally, he's several cuts below Jeremiah Wright (of whom I am by no means an admirer). Yet Warren, like his predecessor the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, is treated with respect in the mass media, his many flaws airbrushed out of the picture. That's a problem. ...
Bruce Wilson: Rick Warren Allies Distribute Anti-Jewish Comic To School Kids
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Beyond anti-Jewish attitudes, Ugandan Christian religious leaders are promoting anti-gay attitudes and regressive, anti-science social policies. In a recent story by journalist Max Blumenthal, which covered Rick Warren's support for Uganda's turn to abstinence-only education, and a subsequent increase in the Ugandan HIV/AIDS rate, Blumenthal described in Uganda a ferociously anti-gay climate, fed by Ugandan politicians and religious leaders and incited by an activist tied to Rick Warren, pastor Martin Ssempa. ...
Bruce Wilson: Colson: Nixon Would Have Loved Rick Warren Plan, George W's In Too
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The goal of addressing human needs, the problems of disease, poverty and illiteracy, were subsidiary components of pastor Warren's plan too but in some cases may be undermined by Warren's religious ideology. As journalist Max Blumenthal has investigated, in a recent story on Rick Warren's influence in the African country of Uganda, Rick Warren's Africa Problem Warren's heavily publicized crusade against AIDS may in fact be increasing, in Uganda, incidence of HIV infection in that country. As Blumenthal detailed in his story, Rick Warren's key allies in Uganda have ...
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Rick Warren, moderate
WWW.samefacts.com 1/10/2009 — Warren thinks stem cell research is so evil that "purpose-driven" people have to oppose politicians who support it. Torture, not so much.
Warren thinks that my fellow atheists and I are automatically unfit to hold public office, because we're ...
Rick Warren and the Presidency
secularright.org 12/19/2008 — Barack Obama’s invitation to evangelical powerhouse Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation has angered abortion and gay rights advocates. They are overreacting. The invitation merely confirms Obama’s admirable willingness to reach out across ...
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Rick Warren loves gays, and more
boston.com 12/24/2008 —
Rick Warren (right), the evangelical preacher chosen by Barack Obama to deliver the inaugural invocation, has posted a three-part video to his church's website responding to the furor that has erupted over his selection.
In the video, Warren ...
Rick Warren — AIDS Pimp
fablog.ehrensteinland.com 1/6/2009 — As the ever-estimable Frank Rich reminds us re. Obama’s pathetic excuses for Warrengate –
“Equally lame is the argument mounted by an Obama spokeswoman, Linda Douglass, who talks of how Warren has fought for “people who have ...
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