What Rick Warren might have said on day two:
in brief:
"The Gospel that we preach teaches that we should walk in love with our fellow Americans, with all men. Our Bible also teaches us to be warriors for Christ.
My fellow evangelists and Baptists, there is a time for war and a time for peace.
The invitation from President-elect Obama to offer words of thanksgiving and wisdom at his inaugural is gracious, but it cannot advance the good deeds of the Gospel, even moreso as we are called to proceed in great humility following our triumphs in California to protect marriage.
Accordingly, I will meet with the President on other occasions, to bear witness."
My fellow evangelists and Baptists, there is a time for war and a time for peace.
The invitation from President-elect Obama to offer words of thanksgiving and wisdom at his inaugural is gracious, but it cannot advance the good deeds of the Gospel, even moreso as we are called to proceed in great humility following our triumphs in California to protect marriage.
Accordingly, I will meet with the President on other occasions, to bear witness."
What Rick Warren said (notice the abject political references):
"I commend President-elect Obama for his courage to willingly take enormous heat [from the devil?] by inviting someone like me, with whom he doesn’t agree on every issue [it's just another issue, eh? civil rights are like global warming?], to offer the Invocation at his historic Inaugural ceremony.
Hopefully individuals passionately expressing opinions from the left and the right will recognize that both of us have shown a commitment to model civility in America. [When you are appealing to civility in this way, isn't something wrong?]
The Bible admonishes us [the ambiguous connotation is working, eh?] to pray for our leaders. I am honored by this opportunity to pray God’s blessing on the office of the President and its current and future inhabitant, asking the Lord to provide wisdom to America’s leaders during this critical time in our nation’s history."
