{"id":193404,"date":"2008-12-18T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/18\/update-on-bigot-little-rickie-warren\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T11:05:00","slug":"update-on-bigot-little-rickie-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/18\/update-on-bigot-little-rickie-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Bigot Little Rickie Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"

In addition to being a virulently anti-gay, anti-abortion bigot, I forgot to mention that Obama’s choice to give the invocation at the inauguration also supports the assassination of foreign leaders<\/a>:<\/p>\n

HANNITY<\/span>: Can you talk to rogue dictators? Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, wants to wipe Israel off the map, is seeking nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

WARREN<\/span>: Yes.<\/p>\n

HANNITY<\/span>: I think we need to take him out.<\/p>\n

WARREN<\/span>: Yes.<\/p>\n

HANNITY<\/span>: Am I advocating something dark, evil or something righteous?<\/p>\n

WARREN<\/span>: Well, actually, the Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped. And I believe\u2026<\/p>\n

HANNITY<\/span>: By force?<\/p>\n

WARREN<\/span>: Well, if necessary. In fact, that is the legitimate role of government. The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and views gay marriage marriages as being equivalent to incest, child rape and polygamy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rick Warren<\/span>: But the issue to me is, I\u2019m not opposed to that as much as I\u2019m opposed to the redefinition of a 5,000-year definition of marriage. I\u2019m opposed to having a brother and sister be together and call that marriage. I\u2019m opposed to an older guy marrying a child and calling that a marriage. I\u2019m opposed to one guy having multiple wives and calling that marriage.<\/p>\n

Steven Waldman<\/span>: Do you think, though, that they are equivalent to having gays getting married?<\/p>\n

Rick Warren<\/span>: Oh I do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BTW, while I’m sure I don’t have enough readers to get a comment to the effect that this was not Obama’s decision, but that of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, headed by Diane Feinstein.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

Well, the word is out that this was Obama’s pick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A powerful Democratic friend contacted me this morning to let me know that they talked to the key players yesterday, and Diane Feinstein, chair of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, had nothing to do with the pick of Rick Warren as Obama’s invocation speaker at the inaugural. The decision was made by Obama himself, I’m told, and Feinstein just assumed that he had vetted it with his staff. Difi went along with Obama’s decision, not the other way around. If this is true, then our apologies to Senator Feinstein for suggesting that she was involved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This has the ring of truth.<\/p>\n

Feinstein made her statewide political career on reaching out to the gay community as mayor of San Francisco<\/span> following the assassination of Moskone and Milk.<\/p>\n

It’s one of the few things that she has never wavered on.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Full disclosure, my great grandfather, Harry Goldman, and her grandfather, Sam Goldman were brothers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In addition to being a virulently anti-gay, anti-abortion bigot, I forgot to mention that Obama’s choice to give the invocation at the inauguration also supports the assassination of foreign leaders: HANNITY: Can you talk to rogue dictators? Ahmadinejad denies the Holocaust, wants to wipe Israel off the map, is seeking nuclear weapons. WARREN: Yes. HANNITY: …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,967,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bigotry","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}