Pastor Rick Warren Likens Gays To Pizza
'Just because I like pizza it doesn't mean I should marry it"
In an interview with Ann Curry on NBC's Dateline, Evangelist Preacher, Rick Warren, who is set to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration, equated gays getting married to eating pizza everyday.
"Mr. Warren's relating gays to pedophiles, incest and gay marriage to his incessant craving of sex with women he was not married to caught me a little off guard.," said Ms Curry, "But after the camera stopped filming he went on to make the comparison of gays to pizza, I must say, I was startled."
"Just because I like pizza it doesn't mean I should marry it," said Warren. "Biologically, I am predisposed to enjoy the immaculate melding of mozzarella cheese, red sauce and thick crust baked to tasty perfection. [ad#med-square] But that doesn't mean I should enter into a lifelong commitment with Sicilian or plain, nor bed it down, nor READ THE REST OF THE HOT PIZZA, NOT SO HOT SELECTION FOR INVOCATION DETAILS HERE.
Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately named, steveyoungonpolitics.com.
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why does the far right breed so many narrow minded bigots? The Bible is a book of moderation...
The guy doesn't need to marry a pizza. I think he IS a freakin' pizza.
Well, if he takes himself out of the inauguration with his own big mouth, I won't complain. Elegant solution.
Now we get to see how the Democrats deal with an 'American Theocracy' as described and written about by Kevin Phillips. Just because Bush is out, McCain/Palin lost, and Obama can claim a moderate mandate due to his margin of victory does not mean the Evangelicals evaporate.
In fact one of the reasons Obama won is that significant numbers of Evangelicals quit drinking the Repub/neo-fascist KoolAid. Obama knows this and 'owes' them. Rick Warren can help him out. Why? Warren is the proud owner of a rather large social network and knows how to use it. The network surely leverages IT but in fact goes way beyond that. It leverages the energy and passion,however misdirected, of many Christians. It also makes use of a form of blind allegiance as displayed by many of those on the theological right side of the aisle. Very unfortunate.
Rick Warren is another reason why people would be better off without a priest, pastor or religious leader as a "spiritual advisor."
Spiritual worship is in spirit and truth--not in a building or with a hate group.
Wow, Rick Warren thinks Gays are morally bankrupt, spiritually incomplete beings, but it's okay for the good pastor to be a complete hetero-pervert weirdo. Got it. According to Keith Olbermann, Warren is a big porn fan too.
I'm telling you, I think Obama is going to end up looking very bad when Warren is outed. I think there is Ted Haggerd potential here.
This is where I have trouble with the label "sexual preference." It's like you are ordering off of a menu, with your "preference" changing from time to time. It reduces the idea of sexual orientation to being something trivial, impulsive, and a casual choice.
It's like saying that someone's sexual orientation is a "choice."
I'm a confirmed heterosexual. It's not that I think homosexuality is bad, it's just how I'm wired. So I KNOW it's not a "choice" for me.
It makes me wonder about the sexual orientation of those heterosexuals who call homosexuality a "choice." Are these heterosexuals' own sexual orientation something that they could choose differently?
Is Chef Boyardee ministering the wedding.
As a lesbian, I consider myself to be more of a traditional cheese and sausage gay pizza. When I dress up I add a little green pepper, mushroom and onions. It can be hard to tell gay pizza from straight pizza. Do you think Rick Warren can tell? And what about Digiorno pizza? If you can't tell delivery from take home pizza, how the heck can you tell gay from straight pizza?
The Gay pizza is more flamboyant; it comes with a feather boa on the side.
This isn't going to fix itself.
Again the real problem is the pandering to the
rationally weak -- the real problem is even if
"Warren" were not so odd as to compare gays
to the fast food, the problem is, he has beliefs
based on irrational and insufficient evidence.
While I don't know his beliefs at all...Nor do I
care to know them...
He likely holds beliefs which oppose...
...medical scientific progress (Embryonic
stem cell research)
...privacy rights progress (Row v Wade)
and
...cosmological and biological progress
(origens of the universe and animal
evolution)
This makes inclusion of people's chosen
irrational, religious views/beliefs wholly
inappropriate for our secular national life.
To the author who seemed "alarmed" at
the analogies made by Warren, you may
want to check out Poe's Law...
Poe's Law states:
“ Without a winking smiley or other
blatant display of humor, it is impossible
to create a parody of Fundamentalism
that SOMEONE won't mistake for the
real thing. ”
It's nearly impossible to tell if Rick W.
is a real homophobe or making more and
more ridiculous analogies between ...
...fruits and fast food.
Cheers,
Paulie Sabol
You can find out all about Rick Warren's views here on his church website:
http://saddlebackfamily.com/smallgroups/small_group_faq.html
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