Rick Warren at ACNA assembly
Pastor Rick Warren will be one of the speakers at the upcoming organizing Assembly of the Anglican Church in North America scheduled for June 22-25 in Bedford, Texas according to the Common Cause Partnership (CCP).
Interesting choice of Warren as he now claims to support marriage equality for gays and lesbians and that has been one of the issues ACNA has with The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.
It is widely believed that Robert Duncan, former bishop of Pittsburgh, will be chosen archbishop of the organization at this meeting.
Don't forget this:
http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/news_reports/rick_warren_offers_safe_harbor.html
Warren: [The Episcopal Church has] already considered me an adversary after partnering on projects with Kolini, Orumbi, and Nzimbi, and writing the TIME bio on Akinola.
But since last summer... I’ve been on Gene Robinson and other’s attack list for my position on gay marriage.
Or this:
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_104218_ENG_HTM.htm
Kristin Cole, an account executive with A. Larry Ross Communications which is based in Dallas, Texas, and handles public relations for Saddleback Church, told ENS that Warren sent the letter to "30 top Anglican leaders" including many in the global south. The letter was intended to be private, Cole said, and declined to release a copy of the letter and a list of its recipients.
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April 21, 2009 4:21 PM
I have watched this video a number of times over the weeks since this interview by Larry King;
1. He does not say that he supports same sex marriage.
2. He does not say that he is not anti-same-sex-marriage.
3. What he says is that he is not/was not an anti-same-sex-marriage activist.
By activist he means that he did not attend anti-same-sex-marriage/pro prop 8 rallies or issue anti-same-sex-marriage/pro Prop 8 public statements to the press in the lead up to election day in California, which saw Proposition 8 on the ballot.
He made a video a week before the election where he claimed same-sex-marriage violated 5000 years of civil, cultural and religious tradition and called for the 22,000 members of his church to support Prop 8. But, as videos are prone to do, when it was published on the Saddleback Church website, it went viral and the whole world saw that Rick Warren supported Prop 8.
When he was publicly interviewed about anti-same-sex-marriage, he compared it to incest and pedophilia, but tells Larry King that his remarks were misunderstood and taken from their context. And he claims that when they were published publicly in various media he wrote his gay & lesbian friends in leadership positions and apologized.
I have seen the video where he was interviewed. He lies. His statements were not taken out of context, he compared anti-same-sex-marriage to incest and pedophilia. I have searched high and low and have not found one GLBT leader who admits to having received an apology letter from him.
Rick Warren is no more pro same-sex-marriage than I am pro racism, slavery, misogyny and homophobia.
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April 21, 2009 4:25 PM
Let the guppies swim with the shark some, they'll learn quickly enough he is not interested in their agendas but only his own.
These evangelical conservatives are naifs in the world of fundamentalist politics and congregation grabbing. It will be fun to watch.
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April 21, 2009 5:08 PM
How have the "orthodox" survived all these years in a church without archbishops?
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April 21, 2009 5:20 PM