Posted on 04/10/2009 10:05:26 PM PDT by Steelfish
Warren waver on Prop 8 stuns leaders Stance about-face at issue
By Julia Duin April 11, 2009
Evangelical leaders say they are bewildered and stunned by the Rev. Rick Warren's apparent turnaround on gay marriage after the famous California pastor said earlier this week that he was not a proponent of California's Proposition 8.
Mr. Warren told CNN's Larry King on Monday that he "never once even gave an endorsement" of the proposition, which said marriage in the state could only involve one man and one woman.
The measure won at the polls last November by a close margin, in effect negating an earlier California Supreme Court ruling allowing gay marriages.
Proponents of the proposition had gathered from earlier comments that Mr. Warren stood with them on the issue, and they reacted vigorously to his CNN interview.
"I was extremely troubled by the way he appeared to be so anxious to distance himself from the same-sex issue and to make clear he was not an 'activist' and that he'd only addressed the issue in a very minor way," said the Rev. Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said his denial is "absolutely baffling."
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This sure says something about his character or lack of it.
Religous leaders who take positions that are contradictory to the teachings of the Bible are the unseen traitors in our midst. The core belief that our country was founded on is that we are endowed by God with unalienable rights and not rights granted to us by king nor man. If they are willing to ignore for expediencys sake the word of God ,will they not also ignore our God given rights due to some future circumstance?
Excellent point.
Cashbox Christian.
Warren’s next book: The $$$$ Driven Life
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