The Marriage of Rick Warren and Barack Obama

Rick Warren, pastor and author of The Purpose Driven Life, had Senator Barack Obama out to his church last week to speak about AIDS and prevention. The Senator received a standing ovation. One church member remarked afterward that, "If I had my preference, abstinence would get the most emphasis. But I'm not so insensitive to other cultures and other ways of thinking to know that abstinence is not always going to be the answer."

The logic behind Warren inviting Obama to speak is less than compelling. The church member's response is, frankly, something worse than moronic. If you follow that logic with other issues, the stupidity of it becomes a bit more glaring. Consider it with the issue of murder: "If I had my preference, not murdering folks would get the most emphasis. But I'm not so insensitive to other cultures and other ways of thinking to know that not murdering folks is not always going to be the answer."

Rick Warren needs to retire.