Rick Warren draws fire from both the left and right

[LostNoMore4]

Divide and Conquer is all I have to comment on this.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/20090...tolightningrod

Warren: From Peacemaker to Lightning Rod

Unlike many evangelical leaders of recent decades, the Rev. Rick Warren doesn't want to be a lightning rod. When I asked him before the last election whether the Christian right had tarnished the image of American evangelicals, Warren didn't blink: "without a doubt."

"I never was a part of it," Warren said of the Christian right. "I'm trying to stake out what I call a common ground for the common good."

Indeed, Warren has adopted causes important to the political right and the left. He toes the conservative evangelical line on gay marriage and abortion rights but has also decried global warming and taken a high-profile role battling AIDS in Africa, two traditionally liberal issues. [Read 'Rick Warren: Stopping Gay Marriage 'Very Low' on Priority List'.]

Lately, though, Warren has attracted more attention for his ability to rile both sides in the nation's smoldering culture wars. Months after his appearance at President Obama's inauguration enraged gay rights activists and abortion rights supporters, Warren has emerged from a self-imposed media exile only to outrage conservative Christians. That's because he appeared to dial back support for Proposition 8, California's recently adopted ban on gay marriage, in an interview last week with CNN's Larry King. "[I] never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop. 8 was going," Warren told King, even though he'd taped a video urging his Orange County congregation to support the gay marriage ban. Warren argued that encouraging parishioners to back Prop. 8 doesn't make him an activist against gay marriage. [See a photo gallery of Obama's inauguration.].............

[billiefan2000]

at least rick warren is admitting his a liberal pastor

and on the same side as Tony Campolo and Jim wallis and Shane Claiborne and Eric Elnes


I hope and :prayer that any real conservative christians out there who have

drank rick's toxic kool-aid will wake up