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Firedoglake: Prop 8 Homophobe Rick Warren to Deliver Inaugural Benediction
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog: California Proposition 8 Supporter and Anti-Gay Marriage Pastor Rick Warren Selected to Deliver Invocation at Barack Obama Inauguration
Prop 8 Homophobe Rick Warren to Deliver Inaugural Benediction
Firedoglake —
In another Donny McClurkin moment, magnified by the context of this historic inauguration, the Joint Inaugural Committee has chosen Prop 8 homophobe and noted religious nutcase Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church and Store™ to deliver the Benediction at his Inauguration. ...
Homobigot Rick Warren to deliver invocation at inauguration
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Pam Spaulding
I can understand the selection of Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, a revered veteran of the civil rights movement co-founder with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, to deliver the benediction at Obama’s inauguration, but how on earth could he select fundie Rick Warren to do the invocation? Kyle at Right Wing Watch asked the same question and said: As we’ve pointed out several times before, in 2004 Warren declared that marriage, reproductive choice, and stem cell research were “non-negotiable” issues for Christian voters and has ...
California Proposition 8 Supporter and Anti-Gay Marriage Pastor Rick Warren Selected to Deliver Invocation at Barack Obama Inauguration
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
“New Evangelical” leader Rick Warren comes out forcefully in support of California’s anti-gay marriage amendment.
Barack Obama has chosen the founder and senior Pastor at California’s Saddleback Church, Pro-Life, conservative Rick Warren to deliver ...
Obama's First Major Gaffe: Anti-Gay Preacher to Deliver Inauguration Invocation
The BRAD BLOG —
Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review.
This is really bad:
Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges ...
Warren On Proposition 8
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Take a look:
Warren's statement contains several simple untruths. The first is that heterosexual marriage between one man and one woman for life has been endorsed by every religion and every culture for five thousand years. This is so obviously untrue it's telling about Warren's own lack of knowledge that he would repeat it. Polygamy has long been a strong contender against that model in many societies and cultures, including plenty of revered and holy figures in the Bible. Moreover, divorce altered the definition of marriage far, far more profoundly than any other change in human history. ...
Melissa Etheridge Supports Warren after Talking to Him
News —
Melissa Etheridge Supports Warren after Speaking with Him Grammy-winning rocker and lesbian activist Melissa Etheridge says she's talked with Rev. Rick Warren and that he's not the "hate spouting, money grabbing, bad hair televangelist" she expected him to be. In fact, Etheridge says, gays should welcome Warren when he arrives in Washington, D.C. to deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration Jan. 20. Etheridge spoke with Warren Sunday before they both appeared at an event hosted by the civil rights oriented Muslim Public Affairs Council, Etheride wrote in an entry on The Huffington Post last night, telling readers that ...
Rick Warren lies about his homobigotry on Larry King Live
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Pam Spaulding
Saddleback Church mega-church pastor and the man who delivered the invocation at the President’s inaugural, Rick Warren, went on Larry King last night and insisted, despite all the video footage out there of him on his anti-gay efforts, that he isn’t against gays or same sex marriage. (!). Right. What was that about bearing false witness? From the transcript: KING: How did you handle all the controversy that resulted about the president selecting you?
PASTOR RICK WARREN, DELIVERED PRAYER AT OBAMA’S INAUGURATION: Yes, you know, Larry, there was a story within a story that ...
Apparently you have Rick Warren scared. He's lying again.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
The last time we heard form our friend Rick Warren, the evangelical pastor Obama invited to give the swearing in at the inaugural, Warren was claiming that he never compared gay marriage to pedophilia and incest. Uh huh. Well, Warren went on Larry King, and the lies were flying. Even more so than last time. I think Mr. Warren is hurting from having his homophobia exposed. Though I'm not sure a religious "leader" should be resorting to lying in order to clear his record. ...
The Lies Of Rick Warren
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Pam Spaulding fisks away. By far the most egregious lie: During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never—never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop 8 was going. Here is his televised statement of support for Prop 8. Who are you going to believe: Rick Warren on Larry King or your lying eyes?
Then this: Not a single criticism came from any gay leader who knows me and knows that for years, we’ve been working together on AIDS issues and all these other things. Some of us who don't know ...
Scritti Politti: April 7, 2009
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
It's been so long since I've bothered to read The Page that yesterday's instance of Mark Halperin using Time magazine as a venue for his kindergarten Photoshop exercise gave me a nice twinge of nostalgia. But an item from today's The Page helped me to remember that I had deemed Halperin to be worthless not merely on the strength of his constant, addlebrained photoshops, but also because of his knack for taking in the news of the day, missing the nuance, vomiting conventional wisdom in every direction and, ultimately, getting the story precisely wrong. Take this item from today, which boldly asserts that Robert Gates was taking "a knife to the ...
Rick Warren Claims He's Not A Homophobe
Daily Kos —
Rick Warren goes on national TV and lies through his teeth; via Americablog, here's Warren, speaking to Larry King: I was asked a question that made it sound like I equated gay marriage with pedophilia or incest, which I absolutely do not believe. Oh, okay. He was misunderstood ... it just sounded like he equated it with pedophilia and incest: Steven Waldman: One controversial moment for you in the last election was your support for Proposition 8 in California. [...] Rick Warren: Not a problem to me. But the issue to me is, I’m not opposed to ...
Rick Warren Abandons Fight Against Gay Marriage?
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Republicans, Barack Obama, Featured Stories, Gay Rights
A growing sense of inevitability is rising across America. In the past week alone, an Iowa supreme court decision, a resounding veto in the Vermont legislature, and a Washington DC city council measure to recognize ...
Rick Warren’s peeps start up the damage control machine - massive FAIL
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Pam Spaulding
Oh the joy of getting busted lying on international TV and having to do serious damage control. My post on Tuesday, ”Rick Warren lies about his homobigotry on Larry King Live,” was picked up by Huff Post and created a buzz for pointing out that on the man who delivered the invocation at the President’s inaugural, Rick Warren, the spiritual leader of Saddleback church, flat-out lied about his support for Prop 8. A recap from the CNN transcript...
WARREN: During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, ...
Warren bails on "This Week" interview
Ben Smith's Blog —
Instead of explaining contradictory statements over his actions regarding California's Prop 8 on same-sex marriage, Rick Warren went with Plan B today: he didn't show up for a planned interview on ABC's "This Week."
"For those of you tuning in this morning expecting to hear from Pastor Rick Warren, we were, too," said host George Stephanopoulos at the start of the show. "But the pastor's representatives canceled moments before the scheduled interview, saying that Mr. Warren is sick from exhaustion."
Added a cool but surely unhappy Stephanopoulos: "We hope he recovers quickly."
As ...
Rick Warren Cancels ABC Appearance "Moments Before," Claims "Exhaustion"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Pastor Rick Warren who last week denied ever supporting California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 despite evidence to the contrary, has now bailed on an opportunity to explain himself.
Warren canceled an Easter Sunday appearance on ABC's "This Week" just "moments before the scheduled interview," host George Stephanopoulos told viewers.
Warren's representatives said the best-selling evangelical author was "sick with exhaustion." Stephanopolous told viewers that he hoped the pastor recovered quickly.
On Larry King last week, Warren asserted that "during the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once ...
Rick Warren, Caught in a Lie, Skips This Week
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Democrats, Barack Obama, Gay Rights, Obama Administration, InaugurationPastor Rick Warren, controversial inaugural invoker, was set to appear this morning on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." According to Politico, he bailed at the last second: Pastor Rick Warren, after making apparently contradictory statements about his stance on a gay-marriage measure, canceled an Easter Sunday appearance on ABC's "This Week" just "moments before the scheduled interview," host George Stephanopoulos told viewers. Stephanopoulos said Warren's representatives said the best-selling ...
TPMDC Sunday Roundup
TPM Election Central —
Odierno: "I Believe It's A Ten" That Troops Will Be Out Of Iraq In Late 2011
Appearing on CNN's State of the Union, Gen. Ray Odierno reaffirmed that U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by late 2011, in accordance with the current timeline. When asked by John King about the chance of this, on a scale of one to ten, Odierno said: "As you ask me today, I believe it's a ten - that we will be gone by 2011." On the other hand, he also said he would continue to reassess the schedule of reducing combat troops over the next 18 months, but the final decisions would be up to the Iraqis.
Obama Family Attends Easter Services ...
Late Night: Pastor Rick™ Warren A Last-Minute No-Show on This Week
Firedoglake —
Citing exhaustion, a Saddleback Church spokesman called "This Week on ABC" at the last minute and canceled Pastor Rick™'s planned appearance. It must be exhausting to take flak from both sides after his lies on CNN's "Larry King Live" earlier this week.
To recap, here's Pastor Rick™'s lie to Larry King: "I never once issued a statement" on Prop 8: ...
Rick Warren Was Sick ... Or Exhausted ... Or Full Of It
Daily Kos —
It's been a bad week for noted homophobe Rick Warren. First he went on Larry King and denied that he had ever equated gay marriage with pedophilia and incest: Rick Warren: ... I’m opposed to having a brother and sister be together and call that marriage. I’m opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that a marriage. I’m opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage. Steven Waldman: Do you think, though, that they are equivalent to having gays getting married? Rick Warren: Oh I do. ... and denied that he had advocated for Proposition 8: ...
