Rick Warren Flap: Defining Divinity Down

North Star Writers Group ^ | December 22, 2008 | Bob Maistros

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I can’t believe I’m back commenting on the gay movement and their obnoxious culture wars. I had other windmills at which to tilt this week – but every time I think I’m out, they pull me back in!

This time it’s the mega-stink being raised over mega-pol Barack Obama’s invitation for Rick Warren, mega-church pastor – not to mention mega-hit author, mega-relief advocate for AIDS and poverty and mega-debate moderator – to give the invocation at the mega-Inaugural.

Take this nugget from the gay advocacy group Human Rights Campaign (please): “It is difficult to comprehend how our president-elect, who has been so spot on in nearly every political move and gesture, could fail to grasp the symbolism of inviting an anti-gay theologian to deliver his inaugural invocation.”

Pipes in People for the American Way: “(T)he sad truth is that this decision further elevates someone who has in recent weeks actively promoted legalized discrimination and denigrated the lives and relationships of millions of Americans.”