“Folks are upset when they find their religious guru to be just “another struggling human being” and not a god...”
Not at all. I expect that. Stop trying to rationalize away how misguided Warren is and how much of a greedy hypocrite he is.
Rick Warren Lauds Obama Choice Of Openly-Gay Pastor For Inaugural Prayer
Stuart Whatley | January 15, 2009 03:26 PM
Pastor Rick Warren, demonstrating his recently discovered and ever-increasing political savvy, has issued a statement lauding President-elect Obama’s choice of openly-gay Pastor Eugene Robinson for the Sunday night Inaugural kickoff prayer. From the statement, issued to Christianity Today:
According to press reports, it is because of a mutual respect that each feels towards the other over the HIV/AIDS pandemic on the African continent. That rationale, however, is not only dishonest, but is not even logical given the two distinct positions that the men come to on the matter. Because of this supposed shared concern, Warren is ready to turn over the spiritual mantle to a man who represents the views of Satan at worst or progressive anti-God liberals at best in most of his public positions on the greatest moral tests of our time.
Warren’s stand on the matter in this instance is what is in doubt – not Obama’s!
Barack Obama has a long history of defying the intended morality of Scripture. As a state legislator, he actively worked to preserve availability of abortion in all nine months of pregnancy. He opposed parental notification. He opposed any and all bans on partial-birth abortion (an act that includes delivery of the baby up to the head, the crushing of the baby’s brain, the suctioning of the brain matter, and then completed delivery of the child’s deflated cranium). In his run for the U.S. Senate, Obama even asked his wife to pen a letter to Illinois voters that reassured them of his commitment to fighting for the right to butcher children in the womb.
Barack Obama has long supported the advance of the radical homosexual activist lobby in its pursuit to destroy traditional marriage. He supported the creation of “special rights” for people who engage in homosexuality for the sole purpose of putting them at the front of the line on issues of employment, housing and litigation. He has also solidly backed the advancement of all “hate crimes” legislation, which ultimately may be used to silence clergy who believe according to their own convictions that homosexual behavior is wrong and preach so from biblical texts. Obama has a perfect voting record against the defense of marriage.
Barack Obama advocates continued funding for Planned Parenthood clinics in our nation’s inner cities, which are performing genocide against the populations of African Americans living there.
And most damnable of all, when a brave nurse named Jill Stanek brought about national awareness to a practice at a local hospital in suburban Chicago that allowed the starvation and neglect of newly born children who had survived abortion procedures – Obama opposed her. He opposed the right of those children to be given the chance to live and he advocated against a ban on such procedures – then known as “born alive abortions.”
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52998
“President-elect Obama has again demonstrated his genuine commitment to bringing all Americans of goodwill together in search of common ground...I applaud his desire to be the president of every citizen.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/15/rick-warren-lauds-obama-c_n_158294.html
Now doesn’t that just warm your evil heart? Hmmm?
Even Billy Graham, wants NOTHING to do with Obama, the Obomination.
GET REAL!
Stop trying to rationalize away people’s legitimate reasons or seeing Warren as evil. BTW, Salvation is NOT works driven as Warren owould have you believe. Rewriting the Bible is also a huge no-no. Running around doing things, as in the Purpose Driven Life, will NOT get you eternal life. It is ALL ABOUT repenting and turning you life over to Him.