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Saddleback Church\u2019s evangelical mega-pastor Rick Warren has announced that he\u2019ll be holding another presidential forum, just as he famously did in 2008 with Barack Obama and John McCain. While nothing is confirmed yet, it is tentatively scheduled for the end of August and will supposedly work \u201cto promote social civility so that people with major disagreements (can) talk without beating each other up.\u201d However, neither President Obama nor Republican challenger Mitt Romney should be fooled, this is an exercise in conservative Christian power, a religious litmus test in all but name.<\/p>\n

Pastor Rick Warren has an entirely undeserved reputation as a \u201cmoderate\u201d evangelical Christian because has no trouble being courted by Democrats, or signing toothless global warming documents. In truth, the man who has sold countless \u201cPurpose Driven Life\u201d books is lock-step with the evangelical mainstream on almost all social and theological issues. He\u2019s for banning same-sex marriage, doesn\u2019t believe in evolution, and only spoke out against draconian anti-gay legislation in Uganda (he had ties to one of the bill\u2019s supporters) after immense public pressure. The only real difference between Warren and many other figures within the realm of conservative Christianity is his genial self-help-book-writer tone. In short, this is not a man I\u2019d trust to explore alone the serious moral and ethical questions inherent to the world\u2019s more powerful job, because there\u2019s only one moral and ethical standard he\u2019s truly capable of understanding.
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Saddleback Church\u2019s evangelical mega-pastor Rick Warren has announced that he\u2019ll be holding another presidential forum, just as he famously did in 2008 with Barack Obama and John McCain. 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