Rick Warren "apologizes" for supporting Prop 8 on Larry King (CNN)

[thoreau]

Apparently, Monday night on CNN's Larry King Live, Pastor Rick Warren "apologized" for his support of Prop. 8, California's voter-approved marriage protection amendment, saying he has "never been and never will be" an "anti-gay or anti-gay marriage activist." California mega-church pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren says he apologized to his homosexual friends for making comments in support of California's Proposition 8, and now claims he "never once even gave an endorsement" of the marriage amendment. The conservative blogosphere is going nuclear over the interview - one of my favorite homophobes, Brian Fischer of Idaho's "Idaho Values Alliance," claims ""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."

quotes of interest (at :30) "I am not and never have been a gay marriage activist" and when asked about his thoughts on the Iowa court decision he says he has "never been and never will be" an "anti-gay or anti-gay marriage activist." He says that he never communicated with the Prop 8 campaign - and did not participate in the campaign. He claims his only action was to tell his church members they should vote to protect marriage. He says he even apologized to gay leaders that he knows. (at 1:21)

"During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never -- never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop. 8 was going," Warren told the CNN audience on Monday. "The week before the -- the vote, somebody in my church said, 'Pastor Rick, what -- what do you think about this?' And I sent a note to my own members that said, I actually believe that marriage is -- really should be defined, that that definition should be -- say between a man and a woman."

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Now, I'm not saying that Rick Warren is our ally. Hardly. but this is a very interesting interview.

Nor do I think we should believe a single word that comes out of his mouth - he's a lying sack of crap. but it's the way the conservatives are feeding on him like a piranha on a gazelle that I find most interesting.

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Comments

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

Bob,

What shocked me was the vids that were posted of him coming down on the side for Prop 8 (indirectly or directly) because I have envisioned Rev. Warren as more of a socially progressive Christian than most.

I'm not sure what to make of this other than to say that I neither support or deny what the man stands for. In the final day, before the judgement seat, he will stand accountable for his actions and his words...

...like us all (who believe that sort of thing)