Obama Rick Warren

Now for me as a christian.

Obama rick warren. Obama later sparked controversy when he asked warren to give the invocation at the presidential inauguration in january 2009. Obama has his eye on the evangelical vote young white evangelicals voted for obama at twice the rate for john kerry. Mainly however the argument is that the warren choice falls under the president elect s stated objective of building a. He is charting a path that isn t at its heart socially or religiously progressive chellew hodge noted that warren recently said same sex couples deserve equal rights though not the right to marriage a position at least superficially similar to obama s.

Stressing his own advocacy of equal rights for gay and lesbian americans the president elect raised a relevant anecdote from his biography as a defense. Has spent his entire career building a reputation as an evangelical who doesn t cause the kind of outrage and protests that have greeted his selection to deliver the invocation at. Rick warren is a member of the cfr. The host was pastor rick warren and the venue was his saddleback community church in orange county.

Warren at the mccain obama debate. Many have wondered how rick warren was picked to host this. Warren was at the apex of his influence in 2009 having hosted then candidates barack obama and john mccain for a conversation dubbed the saddleback civil forum on presidency. At his press conference on thursday barack obama for the first time addressed the flurry of protest that has erupted over the choice of rick warren to give the inaugural invocation.

Saddleback church founder and author rick warren who once praised president barack obama s courage for inviting the conservative pastor to give the invocation at his inauguration and hailed his commitment to model civility has drastically changed his tone on the man who helped make him a familiar name to many americans. In august 2008 he told southern california megachurch pastor rick warren his definition of marriage. I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. What does it mean that barack obama chose rick warren the multidimensional minister at saddleback church in southern california and author of the mega selling 2002 book the purpose driven life to.