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August 16, 2008
About That Warren Affair Tonight With McCain And Obama
Topics: Political News and commentariesIn a comment posted at Free Republic, Ken Shepherd, Managing Editor of NewsBusters, writes that we shouldn't really expect serious questions related to faith and Christianity during Rick Warren's presidential forum at Saddleback Church tonight.
Apparently, Rick Warren, what another commenter at FR calls a progressive preacher with a purpose driven agenda, has used "Faith in Public Life" to help him come up with the questions to ask McCain and Obama.
So, who is "Faith in Public Life" you ask? The Reformed Pastor sheds some light on this group who indeed are "a group of liberal and far left activists, far more interested in gay rights and abortion rights than Christian evangelism:
Jim Wallis is America's foremost spokesman for the Religious Left. Bob Edgar, of course, is the former head of the National Council of Churches. Catherine Pinkerton sits on the Obama campaign's Catholic Advisory Council. Anybody see a pattern here? Just to drive the point home, consider the boards of directors and advisors of the FLP, which include such luminaries as:*Board of Directors president Meg Rlley, Director of Advocacy and Witness for the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship.
*Elizabeth Letzler, member of the PCUSA's Mission Responsibility Through Investment committee and the Israel-Palestine Network (i.e., an Israel divestment proponent). She's also been "deeply involved" with FaithAmerica.org, an NCC outfit.
*Nazir Khaja, a Muslim leader who also sits on the board of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Rights (link added).
*Fred Rotondaro, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, run by Bill Clinton's ex-chief of staff John Podesta, which is basically a Democratic Party research organization.
*Susan Thistlethwaite, president of the UCC's Chicago Seminary, well-known to readers of this blog for her contributions to the Washington Post's "On Faith" column.
*Jim Winkler, General Secretary of the United Methodist Church's General Board of Church and Society, who also sits on the board (with Communist Party USA leader Judith LeBlanc) of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
As another at FR noted in the same above-liked post: "Guys like Rick Warren and Olsten are making the most radical pro-abort Democrats acceptable to evangelicals. I have no use for his purpose-driven life agenda, which is really theological liberalism dressed-up for the post-modern world." I personally find this description of Warren (and Joel Olsten as well) quite appropriate, and unfortunately (for truth and facts), a harbinger for what we can expect tonight.
My own preference is that McCain and Obama have several debates in a neutral townhall setting, which would of course expose Obama for the total klutz that he is.
Posted by Richard at August 16, 2008 2:22 PM
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