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

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soundtracks of AL 6:57AM July 17, 2009

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feminizing seeds by soma of MN 6:29AM July 04, 2009

I agree with Railer of Arizona. If these people are going to be allowed to hold sway over our politics be it evangelical or Catholic preaching from the pulpit then they should be paying taxes. No one will convince me that people like Warren and Falwell are or weren't in it for the money. They have a flock of followers who pay good money to make these men rich and thereby attempting to buy their way into heaven. Any religion bringing in money and talking politics regardless of religious affiliation should be made to pay like the rest of us. They have a right to freedom of speech as do the rest of us, but we PAY for that freedom some with our lives and the rest of us with our tax dollars. This also speaks volumes to the gullibility of the people of this nation.

DavidBronx of NY 2:40PM January 07, 2009

Wouldn't it be nice if the religious right would just disappear from politics?
They must be taxed out of government activities.

The Railer of AZ 7:43PM January 06, 2009

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?

lucy2008 of CA 12:40PM January 06, 2009

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.

Julie of CO 4:35PM January 05, 2009