Under fire for opposing gay marriage, influential evangelical pastor Rick Warren said Saturday that he loves Muslims, people of other religions, Republicans and Democrats, and he also loves “gays and straights.”
The 54-year-old pastor and founder of Saddleback Church in Southern California told the crowd of 500 that it’s unrealistic to expect everyone to agree on everything all the time.
“You don’t have to see eye to eye to walk hand in hand,” said Warren.
[blockquote]…later in the interview, he compared the “redefinition of marriage” to include gay marriage to legitimizing incest, child abuse, and polygamy.[/blockquote]
Let’s not forget about bestiality, the last frontier.
I recall reading that Obama has also invited a heterophobic, discriminatory, all-homosexual marching band to participate in the inaugural day parade. That doesn’t seem to have attracted much attention.
If the Rev. Warren loves gay and lesbian people so much, why does his thinking and speaking reflect stereotypes suggested by the connections to incest, child abuse and polygamy referred to in #1? These variants of human sexual expression are not identified with gay or lesbian folks any differently than heterosexual people–and certainly not generalizable to either group as a whole.