Evangelical pastor Rick Warren tweets:
I’m not a Catholic but I stand in 100% solidarity with my brothers & sisters to practice their belief against govt pressure
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I’d go to jail rather than cave in to a govement mandate that violates what God commands us to do. Would you? Acts 5:29
Warren delivered the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Woo-hoo! Go Pastor Warren. Tell you what, the Obama administration may be in for more than they know. It hasn't been big big news, but groups such as the Manhattan Declaration have been talking up civil disobedience for, jeez, at least a year if not more. This kind of ruling from the Obama administration is only going to get that fire burning hotter. By the way, here's a link to sign the Manhattan Declaration, which I obviously recommend you do.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWoo-hoo! Go Pastor Warren. Tell you what, the Obama administration may be in for more than they know. It hasn't been big big news, but groups such as the Manhattan Declaration have been talking up civil disobedience for, jeez, at least a year if not more. This kind of ruling from the Obama administration is only going to get that fire burning hotter. By the way, here's a link to sign the Manhattan Declaration, which I obviously recommend you do.
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Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHe'd go to jail, but he wouldn't turn down an invitation to speak at Obama's inauguration?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis is disingenuousness or naivete of a high order. Anyone who looked at Obama's background could see where this was going a long time ago.
Um, don't think speaking at an Obama dinner violates his rights or conscience quite the same as this mandate . . . just saying :-)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWarren will not be invited to Obama's second inauguration.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWarren will not be invited to Obama's second inauguration.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseLower the bar. If you're going to subject every potential ally to a purity test, then the project is over before it even begins.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWarren is a pastor, not a clairvoyant.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSure, who could have guessed that a community organizer Chicago pol who fought against the born alive infant protection act was capable of something like this?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI don't think Warren is a bad guy. I just think he's naive, and that "I'd go to prison" is a little over the top when he won't take far less drastic steps like not serving as a stage prop for extremely liberal politicians.
Giving an invocation is hardly and endorsement of Obama.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Giving an invocation is hardly [an] endorsement of Obama" ? -- Did you actually hear or read about Warren's "invocation" as to so admonishing his "annointed one" as though he (BHO) was some sort of demi-god?!! I don't believe one word of a chaplin like Rick Warren would go against his WORD after the incoherently dictated speech he gave at the inauguration over 3 years ago that he would ultimately change his mind and refute his own demigogery words to side along with his "Catholic" buddies in protest of this newest dictatorship that BO is attempting to (again) stuff down our throats so that he can begin his start-up mode for his Socialist programs to "fundamentally change" America!!! You people just DO NOT get it! This is the START for America's downhill trend into SOCIALISM, if not COMMUNISM, for the "annointed one" to begin his campaign that his "SOCIAL" programs will WORK for America!! But get this......He spoke at a high school graduation (PA, I believe) telling those graduates that "capitalism doesn't work, nor will it ever"....YET, now get this folks....HE HIMSELF wrote 2 books (you know what those are..."Dreams of My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope")...well LET ME CLEAR THE AIR for you!! Guess what HE gets out of the SALE of those books???? Come on, now, what's that called? ROYALITIES....and GUESS what THAT is called??? You know it by....CAPITAL GAINS.....ALSO KNOWN AS (AKA), CAPITALISM!!!!! HEY!!! He gets the MONEY!!!!!! He gets PAID!!!!! Isn't that CAPITALIZING on ROYALITIES from writing BOOKS?!!!!!!!! So, CAPITALISM DOESN'T WORK???!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES, people!!! WAKE UP!!!
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYes, we can't ever allow anyone to learn anything or realize they supported the wrong person, can we? Far better to discredit anyone who once did the wrong thing, than to accept any allies we can get.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHow about standing with your brothers and sisters who don't want their employers telling them what religious tenets they must abide by with their health care dollars?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou're right. We should just ignore the first amendment and the religious freedom it provides. Isn't that Constitution getting in the way of Obama forcing us all to do whatever he thinks is best for us? I don't know about you but I NEED the Obamas to tell me how to live my life.
*sarcasm*
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThen they can buy their own individual coverage that covers things outside of "religious tenets," can't they? These organizations are no more required to buy coverage including abortion or contraception than they are one that covers plastic surgery.
Or wait, is that required under Obamacare now?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI swear, one of the more enlightening and liberating passages of my life was to pay for my own health insurance. Whaddya know: it's affordable and effective.
Health-care-as-an-enforced-right is extremely high on the pH scale of stupid.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse1. Whose health care dollars? If the money is coming from the employer, shouldn't the employer have some say over how it's spent?
2. If you don't like the health care plan (or anything else) you're free to find another employer. It's supposed to be a mutually agreeable relationship. When it's a government one-size-fits-all plan you're stuck.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTo paraphrase the founder of this magazine, "Buy your own g-ddamned contraception."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePerhaps the most perfect comment . . . EVAH.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNo employer is telling YOU what to do with YOUR healthcare dollars. Go out and buy your own contraception. You want the government, however, to tell your employers what they must do with their money... height of hypocrisy.
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