{"id":1393,"date":"2008-12-22T00:14:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T08:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2018-08-14T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T21:40:18","slug":"why-did-god-make-rick-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/why-did-god-make-rick-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Did God Make Rick Warren?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rick-warren.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1394\" title=\"rick-warren\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rick-warren-202x300.jpg?resize=202%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rick-warren.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/rick-warren.jpg?w=212&amp;ssl=1 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not happy about Obama&#8217;s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Why is there an &#8220;invocation&#8221; anyway, and why does religion have a place in the inauguration? If religion plays a role in this event, why have a big fat Christian evangelist and not a Jewish rabbi or Buddhist priest?<\/p>\n<p>I thought Rick Warren was just kind of harmless until I learned that he is a staunch opponent of gay marriage and an unrepentant homophobe. He was an outspoken supporter of Proposition 8 in California, and he compares gays to pedophiles and pizza.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, he defends himself by saying that he&#8217;s crazy about Melissa Ethridge and that he&#8217;s &#8220;eaten in gay homes.&#8221; I guess that means he&#8217;s even eaten GAY FOOD, too!<\/p>\n<p>What an idiot. Change Melissa Ethridge to Aretha Franklin, and gay homes to Black homes, and you&#8217;ve got an idiotic statement from an obvious bigot.<\/p>\n<p>What makes Christians so frightened of gays?! It makes even less sense that the rest of their belief system. Thank goodness we have attorney general <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2008\/12\/attorney-genera.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jerry Brown<\/a> to ask the California Supreme Court to invalidate Prop. 8, saying it<strong> &#8220;deprives people of the right to marry, an aspect of liberty that the Supreme Court has concluded is guaranteed by the California Constitution.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like Rick Warren to mind his own business and let the rest of us live our lives as we please, whether Purposeful or Purposeless. He is welcome to Melissa Ethridge though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not happy about Obama&#8217;s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Why is there an &#8220;invocation&#8221; anyway, and why does religion have a place in the inauguration? If religion plays a role in this event, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/why-did-god-make-rick-warren\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,7,11],"tags":[1140,435,420,133],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-mt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}