Warren offers help to anti-gay Episcopal congregations.

[ronnykmarshall]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/01/61130096/1



BUT IT'S JUST A 2 MINTUE PRAYER!!!!

[mitchtv]

1. maybe he can import an African Gay

to kick

[AndyA]

2. Warren is a big mistake, Barack. HUGE.

You really should have considered the message his selection would send.

Hatred, bigotry, discrimination should not have seats at the table in America. If we are all truly equal, that is.

[MADem]

3. WOW....that's some headline!

Rev. Rick Warren takes another jab

And the article spells it out rather starkly...

....Recapping here: After sticking a fork in the eye of gay rights advocates by actively supporting Proposition 8 -- which overturned the legalization of gay marriage in California -- Warren compounded their outrage by equating gay marriage with incest in an interview with Beliefnet.

The hubbub lulled down a little over the holidays but today, he's back, with an open invitation to any group displaced by their denomination. This is code for Episcopal congregations that oppose that church's acceptance of a gay bishop in 2003. Earlier this week, a California judge ruled that a breakaway congregation, St. James in Newport Beach, cannot keep its property now that they have left the Episcopal Church.

The Southern Baptist Warren shared his letter with Christianity Today which says, in part:

We stand in solidarity with them, and with all orthodox, evangelical Anglicans. I offer the campus of Saddleback Church to any Anglican congregation who need a place to meet, or if you want to plant a new congregation in south Orange County.

This is pretty much guaranteed to revive demands by gay rights advocates for Obama to reconsider Warren for the invocation. My bet is that Obama will hold firm, maintaining, as he has before, that this is a diverse nation and that Warren, as much as Rev. Joseph Lowery, a zealot for civil rights, are equally welcome on the podium. Lowery is set to give the benediction....

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Just so no one misses this

When the article says "Episcopal congregations that oppose that church's acceptance of a gay bishop in 2003" , the bishop in question is Gene Robinson.

[saracat]

4. But, but two lesbians are going to ride on the train!

And Bishop Robinson will pray at some event, just not the Inaugural! It isn't like nothing is being done! Obama has to deal with important things!:sarcasm:

[William769]

5. Can't wait to hear the excuses on this one.

But we may have to wait before they are issued the meme (some people just can't think for themselves).

[autorank]

7. He's a total jerk.

Obama invites him then he turns around and pokes Obama in the eye.

Just another day in bizarro-world where the offensive and failed get rewarded cuz we're
going to unify with the people who brought us low. This act is getting real old.

Discriminating against gays is the last vestige of open bigotry and civil wrongs.