Damn! I was hoping to stay out of this controversy about Obama and Rick Warren. I even demurred last night when Shannyn Moore asked me on the radio for my opinion. Of course I had to say I was disappointed in the choice, because I am!
However I have been really trying to trust Obama's judgement on this and give him a pass.
But Warren simply will not shut up!
And now he comes out with this bullshit video laying all of the blame for he current controversy on people who don't like him for staying neutral. And then calling them "hateful", and afraid of "any Christan", and then using the totally made up word "Christophobia" to describe them.
Well Pastor Warren let me just say this, fuck you buddy!
Nobody would have a single negative thing to say about you if you had not weighed in on the Proposition 8 debate, not had a comment on your church's website saying that unless homosexuals were repentant for loving somebody not of your choosing "they would not be accepted as a member of Saddleback", and had not compared gay marriage to "incest and pedophilia". If you were not on record saying these "hateful" things NOBODY would care if you gave the invocation. And by the way, saying those things does not make you "neutral"! Look the damn word up if you have to!
And where do you get the idea that you are being attacked for being a "Christian"? I have not seen that ANYWHERE! People are not mad at you for following the teachings of Christ, they are angry at you for NOT following the teachings of Christ! Does anybody really believe that Jesus, perhaps one of the most compassionate people in history, would have told somebody that gay people should not get married? I find that very unlikely! Jesus was all about acceptance, and tolerance, and love.
Rick you talk about how much you "love" everybody. Well buddy part of "love" is "acceptance". Until you accept the desires of the homosexual community to have the same right to get married to the person they love, that every heterosexual couple in America enjoys, then you cannot really "love" them.
Until then all you really do is "tolerate" them.