MLK Center: Rick Warren chosen to give keynote address for his "unifying spirit"

[Bluebear]

Saturday, January 3, 2009; Page B07

The Rev. Rick Warren, whose selection to deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration has angered gay activists, will be in the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to deliver the keynote address at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative service.

The Jan. 19 service at King's former church on the federal holiday, marking what would have been his 80th birthday, comes the day before the inauguration ceremony in Washington.

King Center President Isaac Newton Farris Jr. said organizers tapped Warren to speak at the service for his "unifying spirit" and commitment to his conservative faith, which is part of the concept of the "beloved community" embraced by King.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010201958.html

More rehabilitation of Rick Warren and his hate speech. I guess if you say it often enough, it becomes true.

[polichick]

1. My God - MLK Jr. must be rolling over in his grave!

[mitchtv]

2. unifying indeed

unifying Black Protestants with Mormons and Catholics to persecute Gays

[Kutjara]

3. "Unifying spirit" and "conservative faith."

Surely an oxymoron? Unless Farris means, "unifying everyone in hatred of Warren."

[1776Forever]

4. This make me ill - please see my post on this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8050741&mesg_id=8050741

[Jamastiene]

5. That is horrendous.

:puke:

[bluedawg12]

6. He's the key note speaker beacuse of all of his ANTI- civil rights work.

:eyes:

[EFerrari]

7. Shame on them.

[bluedawg12]

8. What has this guy done for civil rights? Seriously.

[MountainLaurel]

9. What the fuck ever

Unifying whom, I wonder?

[LostinVA]

10. Well, I guess it'll unify bigots, anyway

What an insult to the memories of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King.

[bluedawg12]

11. The only one getting a boost from this is Warren

this isn't going to unify cultural conservatives with social progressives.

[IndianaGreen]

12. They are all united in cleansing and protecting the forest from LGBTs

Religion is a mental disorder!