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Warren backlash
The gay rights movement, bursting with organization and energy in the wake of the passage of Proposition Eight a month and a half ago, may have a new cause: ppposing Rick Warren's role at the inauguration. John Aravosis, a bit of a leading indicator in these things, is up in arms :  ...
 Rick Warren Endorses Prop 8 (video)
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Rick Warren Endorses Prop 8 (video)
youtube.com — http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-warren-surprises- nobody-his-support-prop-8"New Evangelical" leader Rick Warren comes out forcefully in ...... (more) Rick Warren Endorses Prop 8 (video)
Warren Says Candidates Have to Believe in God
rightwingwatch.org — While Rick Warren is often portrayed as something of a poster-boy for a new, more moderate evangelical... movement , his statements and views are closely aligned with the Religious Right's traditional agenda. And that was on full display when he ... (more) Warren Says Candidates Have to Believe in God
Rick Warren And The Ex-Gay Movement
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — I've been traveling today but sitting on the Acela and reading your emails and pondering the Warren... pick, I've found myself both better understanding Obama's gambit politically and feeling more betrayed at the same time. I fought against the ... (more) Rick Warren And The Ex-Gay Movement
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  • drkaza12 drkaza12
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    The answer to rev Ricks question as to the rights of the unborn child can be found on the pages of Shakespeare and rumi; one resolving in the heart, the other in the mind. With some tribes it's when the nature of the unborn child reveals itself to the mother as a song, which to me says when it is loved within and without.

    I think what Obama has done is masterful as a chess player, and reveals a sense of humility that went undetected by the media.

    As a chess player in the art of war you draw your enemies in around you tighter than your friends, that way you keep them within ear shot, and there's nothing between you and them like, no high fiven buddy's, to obscure your view. It also gives those who disagree with rev Rick, and those who wonder what the allure is, an opportunity to stand in the reflection of his opacity, and yammer about prop 8.

    What about Obama as a humble Christian Servant, pursuing his identity to be to do to give?

    During the rev Wright fiascal I was puzzled why no one mentioned the dysfunction in always preaching to the choir;
    that the real work is getting out in the field and sharing the message of the gospel with the befuddled, and confused. To bring a message of hope change transformation and certainty where it’s needed most; replenishing an empty cup. perhaps that's how Obama as I do, sees rev Wright; a cup without the virtue of content, but with the stain of context pressed hard against its bottom, in need of a good sos pad, and a sense of humility.

    Perhaps this is a call by Obama to rest the rev Wright shtick in the evangelical judgmental right wing of this political bird we're flying by offering it the olive branch of the left--an attempt to draw the conversation back to the middle where all the great teachers in the past and present dwell declaring there isn't a right or wrong, only our minds that makes it so; and between right and wrong there' a field, and I’ll meet you there.

    Thus the answer to rev Ricks question as to the rights of the unborn child is found within our individual pay grades as on the pages of Shakespeare and rumi; one resolving in the heart, the other in the mind. Or when the nature of the unborn child reveals itself to the mother as a song, which to me says when it is loved within and without, and the run way to this side of life is clear for landing.

     

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