Tough words for Rick Warren

One of the things I love about Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker is that she always keeps you guessing. Just when you think you know what she’s likely to say, she comes at you, out of nowhere, with something unexpected and deliciously surprising. Regardless of what you may or may not think of her (mostly) […]

One of the things I love about Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker is that she always keeps you guessing. Just when you think you know what she’s likely to say, she comes at you, out of nowhere, with something unexpected and deliciously surprising. Regardless of what you may or may not think of her (mostly) conservative politics, she’s anything but predictable.

She did it again today, going after Purpose Driven Life pastor Rick Warren for his relative silence on that “odious” anti-gay law in Uganda. Here’s what Warren said, in explaining why he couldn’t speak out more forecefully against a bill he finds “unjust,” “extreme” and “un-Christian.” :

“… it is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations.”

Really? Parker isn’t buying it:


In a “Meet the Press” interview last November, Warren said he never takes sides, but one wishes he would. To borrow his own words, it is in certain cases extreme, unjust and un-Christian not to.

Read the whole thing here.

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