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Megachurch Pastor Rick Warren To Piers Morgan: Being Gay Is Like Taking Arsenic
Appearing on CNNs Piers Morgan Tonight last night, influential megachurch pastor Rick Warren said that being gay is like consuming poisonous arsenic
or having the desire to punch a man in the nose. Like homosexuality, both things are natural, Warren said, but we should never act upon them.
After a tense exchange over homosexuality and whether it is biological, Warren admitted that it wouldnt bother me if there was a gay gene found, because regardless of whether we deem it natural, it is still wrong.
He explained: I have all kinds of natural feelings in my life and it doesnt necessarily mean that I should act on every feeling. Sometimes I get angry and I feel like punching a guy in the nose. It doesnt mean I act on it. Sometimes I feel attracted to women who are not my wife. I dont act on it. Just because I have a feeling doesnt make it right.
Not everything natural is good for me. Arsenic is natural, he concluded.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/megachurch-pastor-rick-warren-to-piers-morgan-being-gay-is-like-taking-arsenic/
GoCubsGo
(32,097 posts)Arsenic poisons you. The shit Rick Warren preaches poisons your mind.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)They going to honor him by inviting him back? Or do they have someone else in mind this time?
morningglory
(2,336 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)That apologist meme bears repeating, I think.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,668 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)JanMichael
(24,897 posts)I don't want to know; he's a horrible person.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)JCMach1
(27,579 posts)MineralMan
(146,338 posts)HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)that warren is some kind of spook/intelligence agent, myself, and his church's activities in the hot spot of africa (uganda/rwanda/congo) are acts in furterance of empire.
Initech
(100,108 posts)That Martin Ssempra that he works with to stir up the shit would make a great James Bond villain.
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)pretty well known, & saddleback is one in a long line.
Initech
(100,108 posts)I've long known about what he's doing in Uganda and who he's working with. The man is a truly rotten, vile scumbag who does not practice what he preaches and uses Jesus for financial gain and profit. I cringed when I found out he was speaking at the inauguration. He's no better than Pat Robertson or the rest of those lunatics.
MineralMan
(146,338 posts)Feh!
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)Some of the best times I've had in my life I think I may have ingested a small amount of arsenic
Initech
(100,108 posts)forestpath
(3,102 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)People swore themselves blind here that having him speak at the Inauguration would moderate his views and/or make his career fade. Looks like neither happened.