Some folks can do no wrong, it seems. 
Even when their upper lip is smeared with the santorum of an emu.

Rick Warren, by saying that 2% of the population should not be protected by law because…….well, because they’re ONLY 2% of the population- sides with the tyranny of the masses, denies the constitution, and denies the “self evident truth” of god creating everyone equal. Or maybe he doesn’t believe in the god that’s mentioned in the constitution. Either way, it seems he’s either a bully, someone who misunderstands the precepts America was founded on, or a religious bigot who worships a god who gives some over to be punished by dictatorial asswipes.

(Let’s not even get into how Rick Warren came to the ’2%’ number. We’ll leave discussions of queer identities and the freedom and fluidity of sexual expression to the comments.)

Rick Warren and the rest of his ilk are ahistorical (or White European historical redactionists-whatever’s worse) and culturally ignorant. When someone says: “Marriage has been about ‘one man and one woman for life’ for five thousand years” has flunked Sociology 101 in their uncredentialed Bible college.

Rule #1: If you want to strip people of their inherent human rights, dignity, and freedom and base that on arguments from Historical Tradition, take the five minutes to peruse Wikipedia or any other middle school level reading difficulty text and get your bigoted ducks in a row.

Rule #2: Anytime your religious leaders get fired up about what “2%” of a nation want in regards to their rights, your religious leader is a bankrupted, vacuous imbecile. Is Rick Warren’s god so terrified and weak, that “2%” of America can threaten it? The answer is “yes” when, as in Rick Warren’s case, your god is an idol of racist and sexist hegemony whose only power resides in ignorance and non-love.

Rule #3: If you have to continually answer to charges that you’re a bigot, take a second to introspect.

Rule #4: If you think that by giving someone who is peaceably protesting you and your church some donuts and coffee, you are patronizing and arrogant.

 

You’d think that someone with as much influence as Rick Warren does would take ten minutes to consider what he’s doing. Pastors are held to a higher accountability-and he’s failing. Instead of handing out donuts to people that’s he’s rallying to punish, judge, and outcast, he might have stopped to pray with, listen to, and worship with them.

But then again, who’d want to accept, love, include, and fight for the outcast and ‘least of these’? That’s crazy talk.

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