{"id":491,"date":"2009-04-08T18:12:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/progressiverevival\/2009\/04\/gay-marriage-and-the-new-impro.html"},"modified":"2009-04-08T18:12:40","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T18:12:40","slug":"gay-marriage-and-the-new-impro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/progressiverevival\/2009\/04\/gay-marriage-and-the-new-impro.html","title":{"rendered":"Gay Marriage and the New Improved Rick Warren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Warren is now pro-gay marriage. Or, he never was against gay marriage. (video 1)<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Except that of course, he was against gay marriage. \u00c2\u00a0(video 2)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rick Warren doesn&#8217;t equate gay marriage with incest or pedophilia. \u00c2\u00a0(video 1)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Except, or course, he did equate gay marriage with incest and pedophilia in the interview with Beliefnet&#8217;s Steve Waldman (video 3)\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I don&#8217;t think Rick Warren knows what he thinks about the gays, but he sure doesn&#8217;t want to talk about it anymore. \u00c2\u00a0Which is probably a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0Prediction &#8211; in a few years, Rick Warren will repent, just like he did about poverty and race, and accept gay people as a legitimate part of God&#8217;s creation. \u00c2\u00a0By then we will be paying him much less attention.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: -editor-proxy;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bYIWSyMrhRA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bYIWSyMrhRA&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7o4QqGbQmU0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7o4QqGbQmU0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/object><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8nXq0wO5-n0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8nXq0wO5-n0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Warren is now pro-gay marriage. 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Paul B. Raushenbush is the moderator of the Progressive Revival blog and the Associate Dean of Religious Life at Princeton University. .An ordained American Baptist minister, Rev. Raushenbush speaks and preaches at colleges, churches and institutes around the country including the College of Preachers at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, and the New America Foundation. Rev. Raushenbush has served at Seattle First Baptist Church, the Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Columbia University and as College and Young Adult Minister at The Riverside Church in New York City. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight and is a repeated guest on CNN. He has been quoted in The New York Times and The Washington Post and is a contributing editor for Beliefnet.com. His first book, Teen Spirit: One World, Many Faiths (HCI) was released in the Fall of 2004. 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