Why doesn't anyone ever pander to the Left? Because we are tolerant or more patient, is that why? This morning we woke up to the news that Barack Obama had chosen Rick Warren of Saddleback Church to deliver the invocation at the Inauguration.
Why did he have to do that?
Rick Warren is an evangelical who, yes, has focused the Christian population on things other than same sex marriage and abortion, things like Darfur, poverty, the environment, and HIV/AIDS, but... .
And this is a very big, BUT... .
Rick Warren did compare gay marriage to incest, pedophilic marriage, and polygamy. Click here and listen for yourself.
The policy statement from the Saddleback Church: Because membership in a church is an outgrowth of accepting the Lordship and leadership of Jesus in one’s life, someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted at a member at Saddleback Church. That does not mean they cannot attend church – we hope they do! God’s Word has the power to change our lives.
What I find so disingenuous about how he speaks here is that marriage hasn't been defined by every culture for five thousand years as between a man and a woman. Many cultures, including Christianity and Islam, defined marriage as between a man and as many women as he could buy.
And since when was Proposition 8 ever a free speech issue?
So I have to act cranky about Obama's choice here, because he could have asked a spiritual leader who didn't have such strong and divisive views about an issue as contested as gay marriage.
One strike, Barack.
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