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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

Bashing Rick Warren, Star Parker Reveals Christian Right's Fears

January 05, 2009 03:44 PM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

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Christian Right's Fears

Wouldn't it be nice if the religious right would just disappear from politics?

They must be taxed out of government activities.

Cast the net wider

There has been a lot of controversy about President-elect Obama's choice of Rick Warren. No matter what, it is clear that most parties believe that this was Obama's move for tolerance and an extended hand. It is symbolic. That is the offense.

It would be helpful to get more stories from people who don't fit exactly into the two extreme corners. Why can't articles quote the non-evangelical Christians and other religions? Why are the evangelicals and fundamentalists quoted so often? We are a big tent nation and Barack Obama's election win shows that.

This narrowness of viewpoint and agendas isn't helpful to our American conversation. What gives?

Warren Is Far Right

Star Parker needs to read more about Warren's positions. He may come across as a moderate because of his voice tone, but he is far right on gays, abortion, women's rights.

I give Warren credit for supporting causes that all Christion's should support such as funding for the needy, AIDS, and climate change.

Warren has demonized gay relationships by comparing them to incest and people that sexually abuse children.

He also slandered mainline churches.

Warren does not believe in evolution. There are two allowable reasons for divorcing cheating and abandonment.

A woman cannot divorce a man that physically injures his wife. She can leave him, but no divorce. The woman would still be legally responsible for any debts her husband did not pay.

Obama and McCain had the same position on full legal rights for gays, but not calling it marriage. Main Stream Media (MSM) failed to accurately cover McCain's stance on the issue.

Many people voted for McCain because of their false assumptions that he was going to end abortion. Steven Waldman at Beliefnet did a great job of covering McCain and Palins back tracking on abortion. Waldman had a funny title to one article, I Do Not Want to Be In The Room When someone tells Dobson. The MSM ignored the back tracking.

McCain supported stem cell research.

I would think the informed Evangelical would have seen McCain was not going to support their main issues, which would have left the over $250,000 group. Most Evangelicals were not informed because the MSM did a terrible job covering the issues and too many people got their "news" from Sean Hannity or Limbaugh, especially in rural areas that only have AM radio.

Obama would have had a much larger win if there were true journalist in the MSM, if his skin color was not black, if the false Muslim stories had not been repeated nonstop, etc.

The supposed Christian, Sarah Palin, used fear tactic with false stories about palling around with terrorist. She also repeated McCain's lies about Obama's tax plan.

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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