by Karen on April 13, 2009
An unnamed aide to Rick Warren has sent out an email defending the liar. I’m sure you’re completely shocked by the news that his valiant defender is also a liar, yes?
The key part of the defence regarding Prop 8:
When Pastor Warren told Larry King that he never campaigned for California’s Proposition 8, he was referring to not participating in the official two-year organized advocacy effort specific to the ballot initiative in that state, based on his focus and leadership on other compassion issues.
Because he’s a pastor, not an activist, in response to inquiries from church members, he issued an email and video message to his congregation days before the election confirming where he and Saddleback Church stood on this issue.
What Warren actually said was that he was not anti-gay and he had not endorsed Prop 8 which is a lie. Warren issued a video statement to his church which recently trained 2400 new members in one day and has an average attendance rate of 22,000 per week wherein he clearly expressed support for Prop 8 and encouraged his followers to do the same. The video is here.
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by Karen on April 12, 2009
Serial liar Rick Warren cancelled an appearance on ABC just moments before it was to take place due to “exhaustion”:
by Karen on April 9, 2009
America’s culture warriors are not happy with Rick Warren lying about his support of Prop 8, his homophobic remarks and general bigotry against gay people.
Bryan Fischer of Idaho Value Alliance had this to say:
The minimum the Christian church should expect from its spiritual leaders is clear and unapologetic adherence to this biblical standard, especially from pastors who tell us that the Bible is the “rule of faith and practice.”
So if you want to understand why we are losing the culture war, you probably don’t need to look any further than Rick Warren, he of the famously seeker-friendly model of tepid Christianity.
One News Now also wrote about Warren’s lying where Fischer is quoted as saying:
“For Pastor Warren to say that shoring up marriage is not something that’s on his agenda is just something that’s hard to believe for somebody who believes the Bible is our rule for faith and practice,”
Another culture warrior, Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., is quoted as saying that Warren’s lying is “aiding and abetting a deception” and that his public disownment of his own words has done serious damage to their theocratic movement.
Personally, I think Jackson is being a bit dramatic, but I’m enjoying the show all the same.
