blog.beliefnet.com - 12/23/2008
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The following is the controversial portion of the interview with Rick Warren focused on gay marriage, civil unions and divorce. In brackets are clarifications that Warren asked to include after reading a transcript of the original interview: BELIEFNET: Which do you think is a greater threat to ...
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
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 12/23/2008
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digbysblog.blogspot.com —
Monday, December 22, 2008 One Way Street by
digby I saw something very interesting today on MSNBC....
Barnicle, filling in for Matthews on Hardball , hosted Reverend Eugene Rivers, a well respected, uncontroversial African American preacher, and Mike ...
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Hullabaloo
blogactive.com - 12/23/2008
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blogactive.com —
From the moment I heard about the Rick
Warren controversy, I knew he would never be pulled...
off the program. That being said, when planning a community action or reaction, the two most important components are to personify the opponent and to have a ...
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Real Truth, Direct Action
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Did Tammy Lynne Drink the Kool-Aid? Or Will Melissa Change Rick’s Thinking?
Firedoglake —
... Has she seen the Rick Warren video where he equates equal marriage rights to pedophilia, incest and polygamy? Has she watched the Ann Currie interview? ...
Leah McElrath Renna: Is Rick Warren a Vampire?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Reporters and pundits throughout the mainstream media have repeated over and over again the incorrect assertion that Warren supports civil unions. There appears to be a single source document for this assertion, an interview with Warren conducted on December 15th by Beliefnet. ...
Is Rick Warren Scared of George Stephanopoulos?
Swampland —
... Proposition 8 is just the most visible and recent example of Warren trying to have things both ways. Eight days before Election Day, Warren was very clear. In fact, he says so in his video message: "Let me say this really clearly: We support Proposition 8. If you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8." After the election, Warren spoke to Beliefnet's Steven Waldman about his support for the initiative and went even further (watch ...
Related: rick warren comments on gays
A Bridge Too Far —
Shakesville
In comments , Shaker LizardOC recommends Katha Pollitt's op-ed for today's LA Times on why Obama's choosing Rick Warren is insulting. Only Democrats, it seems, reward their most loyal supporters -- feminists, gays, liberals, opponents of the war, members of the reality-based community -- by ...