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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Opposed to late term?? I guess he forgot to tell NOW, or NARAL
It isn’t even a question of right or wrong. He just duck the question like a little punk.
Yea, his train of thought is “so screwed up” in his own words that the drugs must have burned his brains out. Keep waiting to see white powder blowing out of his nostrils! If Clinton has a nose like a Hoover vacuum cleaner, Obama has a nose like a Pratt and Whitney Jet Engine............on the inlet end!
He’s a radical abortionist and I have no problem casting that stone.
Obama Cover-Up Exposed on His Votes on Infanticide
Has Obama been asked about that?
Haha!
It really is making me sick!!!!
Oh now the “abortions should be limited” line...UGH!!! Warren just nods in agreement.
He is a bald faced liar and Warren is sitting there like a lump.
He’s tryig to be elected as the President Of The United States. HE SETS THE AGENDA ON ALL EXECUTIVE ACTION ISSUES. This guy is TOTALLY CLUELESS as to what leadership is about.
Define marriage...media claps.
That’s all he does — goes in circles... and can you believe Warren let the matter go — after all, he’s got 15 more questions...
oh, this is painful...
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Finannces cause abortions
a good way to tell if a christian is spiritually in tune to christ? if the world loves them....they must be doing something wrong. if the world hates them (for no apparent reason) — they probably are being true to faith.
I guess he just tossed gays and abortionists under the bus.
OMG.............. he is flipping with
each sentence.
What did you expect him to do, Obama is his boy........
yep, we don’t pay women enough to keep babies, thus they are punished with a baby.
Done with it. Y’all take good notes - maybe I’ll read later. TTFN
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