Ethics

More Rick Warren Lies

By Ed Brayton

Rick Warren is so frantic to cover his ass that he is even lying about people who are sympathetic toward him. Steven Waldman of Beliefnet, who has been and continues to be highly complimentary toward Warren, was also targeted by Warren in that Larry King Live interview. Warren tried to blame Waldman for his own idiotic statements about gay relationships:

After Rick Warren was selected by Barack Obama to give a prayer at the inauguration, attention turned to comments he made to me during an interview for Beliefnet and WSJ.com in which he appeared to equate homosexual relationships with relationships between siblings or pedophilia. A firestorm erupted.

Warren now claims that he got into hot water because of the way I phrased the question.

"I was asked a question that made it sound like I equated gay marriage with pedophilia or incest, which I absolutely do not believe," he told Larry King on April 6. (In a subsequent interview with Sarah Pulliam at Christianity Today he made clear he was referring to me).

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).