Some Sinful Links at Rick Warren's Updated Website

Saddleback Church removed several entries from its website, something which activist Mike Rogers noted during his elegant appearance on Hardball:

I compliment Rick Warren on seeing the error of his ways and changing his web site.

Well, this wasn't a removal of homophobia, but revisionism for PR purposes. A not-so-gay-friendly manifesto is back up at Saddlebackfamily.com, this time with a picture of the very sincere Tom Holladay, a Saddleback teaching pastor and author of The Relationship Principles of Jesus (tagline: Nothing matters more than relationships -- and no one understands them better than Jesus.).

Tom's picture and his little blurb about not being judgmental are the addition. What's missing is the original statement:

[S]omeone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted at a member at Saddleback Church.

and its follow-up:

In equal desire to follow Jesus, we also would not accept a couple into membership at Saddleback who were not willing to repent of the sexual sin of living together before marriage

But some curiously sexy and sinful links are also present -- though now that I've written about the rather risque placeholders, Pastor Rick's crack web team (which has currently rendered his views on dinosaurs extinct -- yes Pastor Rick believes that man and velociraptors once frolicked together, because the Bible sorta says so) may have replaced them with something a little less racy....

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