Posted on 08/16/2008 11:59:35 AM PDT by XR7
LAKE FOREST, Calif. — When John McCain and Barack Obama appear on the same stage today, they will vividly demonstrate the reach that has made the Rev. Rick Warren among the most significant evangelists of his generation.
He's a megastar who leads the nation's fourth-largest church and reaches thousands of ministers through the Internet and crusades against poverty and AIDS. That globe-trotting work and his successful book — "The Purpose-Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?" — puts him at the vanguard of a movement that inspires young, socially conscious Christians.
But his willingness to soft-pedal political issues once central to U.S. evangelicals, such as opposition to abortion, has opened him to criticism that he has strayed from his calling to spread the Gospel.
Today's forum also is a sign of religion's importance in the 2008 presidential campaign, and the emergence of a new style of evangelical leadership on the national stage that is not tied to a single party and has broadened its social agenda beyond that of the religious right.
"This is absolutely a changing of the guard, and it suggests that the new guard of the evangelical movement is able to generate the attention and focus of both parties," said D. Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University and author of "Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite."
Warren personally invited the two candidates — "friends of mine" — via their cellphones. His event at the Saddleback Church will be broadcast live on CNN and Fox News Channel and streamed on the Web. It has among its aims "helping the church regain credibility and encouraging our society to return to civility," he said.
It's likely that fans and critics will be watching closely...
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So the left takes over the Democrat party and now they slowly infest religion?
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FNC rerun
Watching Obama delay and stammer and answer on both sides of everything
Obama is a very slow thinker and stalls while he attempts to formulate some answer
And Obama fails bigtime
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I’m serious. Boyfriend has eyebrow implants, too. They’re thick and bushy on Rick’s show, sharp and pointy in the photo.
When he is one on one, as he is in this interview, that posture of his (which seems very natural to him) is that he is looking down his nose at the other speaker.
That chin-up stance is a negative. Why does he do it? I’m happy he does, as it is a negative.
He’s been slipping it in and out of his hair for a while.
I thought it was me, until others started to notice.
Awaiting the Edwards type video.
Darfur again
nedd to take action
Why not New york and our need to take action then ?????
Graygate
Just a touch of fake gray, so he doesn’t lose the youth vote.
Could “ah” “ah” be short for allah?
Wait til Rush gets hold of that, Monday.
He’ll be explosive at those comments about
his brilliant dear friend, Justice Thomas.
That may have been Rick Warren’s whole agenda for his friend Barack.
He HAS got bushy eye brows
LOL
No. That’s Otis Moss Jr. The young b-boy preacher (well he’s a man that acts like a gangster, more along a Farrakhan light path).
Who is a good Freeper at digging through and putting this all together we can ping?
Need photoanalysis here. Does Obama shave his eyebrows and replace them (like his grey hair) when politically expedient?
could be
or showing off his new false teeth ?????
Too many doobies while on vacation.
There's one very big problem with that answer, and it's the full faith and credit clause...
IIRC, the Defense of Marriage Act provides that the full faith and credit clause does NOT apply to homosexual marriages performed in another state
SDS ping.
BTTT
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