Today I'll be talking about the Los Angeles Times article "Obama's choice of Rick Warren to lead prayer dismays Hollywood liberals". If you want to go take a gander, now's a great time. Or just open it in a new tab and read it in a few. Your pick.
Anyway, our President Elect has chosen Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the swearing in next month. Warren is one of those mega-pastors, his Saddleback Church in Orange County California boasts a weekly attendance of over 23,000 members, making it the fourth largest church in the United States.
Just to put that in perspective, 24,000 people is over a third of the city of Portland, Maine.
That's close to the entire population of Naples. Casco, Bridgton, Sebago, Fryeburg, Raymond and Harrison put together.
I mean, the freakin' TD Banknorth Garden in Boston only seats 19,580 at maximum capacity!
That church is bigger than the Garden!
How can you be close to God if you're not even close to your pastor?
But I digress. The real reason Warren was a crummy choice is because he strongly supported California's Proposition 8, the ballot proposition which changed their Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.
Apparently, according to the Los Angeles Times article, he's even compared same-sex marriages to polygamy and pedophilia.
Awesome. Great pick, Barack!
I could go on and rant about the whole same-sex marriage thing, but I won't. I just don't even comprehend why these religious folks get all up in a twitter about it. Who cares if two random dudes whom you've never met want to get married? Or two ladies? What does that matter in our day-to-day lives?
What the hell ever happened to "do unto others as you would have others do unto you"?!? I mean, shoot, that's the only part of the Bible that I know!
I guess it should read:
- Do unto others* as you would have others do unto you.
*'others' in this case does not apply to people who worship religions which do not recognize the New Testament, people who don't believe in any religion, or the homosexuals. You can do whatever you want to these people, your God doesn't care about them.
