Saddleback Site Removes Anti-Gay Statements, Warren Lies to Congregation.
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Rick Warren lies to his congregation on his most recent video, and Saddleback Church’s website site has scrubbed some old fashioned dogma. Gadzooks, won’t their God be mad that Pastor Rick and his congregation aren’t standing steadfast in their beliefs, proclaiming them from the mountaintop?
Beliefnet.com has up on its site, dated December 21, 2008, an article entitled Saddleback: Homosexuals Not Welcome As Members, with a link to Saddleback’s What We Believe that included questions about dinosaurs, stem cells and homosexuality.
But now the list of questions is quite different–the dinosaurs are gone (fyi, Saddleback members were told man and dinosaurs roamed the earth together–uh oh), and so are those touchy issues about stem cells and Saddleback’s devisive, anti-gay sentiment:
…someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted at a member at Saddleback Church.
These views have not been replace or revised, so maybe this is just a way to hide Pastor Rick’s true feelings and Saddleback’s fundamentalist belief system. But why would you want to hide your beliefs?
And in this video Pastor says lies that he never equated gay marriage with pedophilia or incest. But Warren did make that unfavorable comparison did, saying "I do" when asked by Steve Waldman of Beliefnet if he felt his descriptions of
a brother and sister being together…an older guy marrying a child…one guy having multiple wives
were the equivalent of gay marriage
On his new video, along with trying to hornswoggle his congregation with snake oil, Mr Haney Pastor Rick also tells us bloggers we need to get a life. Woooooo…*snap*
Lisa,
I’m sure Pastor Rick doesn’t believe he is lying. He just gave a “Cliff Clavin” answer. When he used incest, pedophilia, polygamy and same-sex marriage in the same sentence, he meant us to think, “What are four activities that do not correspond to the Biblical definition of marriage?,” not “What are four practices that I consider an abomination?“
Of course, the Bible has instances of incest, pedophilia, polygamy and homosexuality, but the Pastor has edited those parts out, just as he edited the Church web page.