Rick Warren Begging For Support of Prop 8

The Proposition 8 debate is getting testy in California. Aside from my own brush with the creepy proponents of the divisive proposition, the ad spots endorsing the passage of prop 8 are turning increasingly deceptive and pathetic.

Every ‘Yes on 8’ ad stars a child in the role of victimized, unsuspecting student who was nearly sold down the Freddy Mercury Expressway by an educator in a California public school. And why not? What quicker way to a parent’s heart and vote than a good scare?

The ‘Yes on 8’ effort has been massively funded by the Mormon church, which is strange since they pretty much have their own state. Right there with them providing moral (no pun intended) support is California’s many Evangelical churches.

Walking that tightrope between policing the morality of the state and maintaining their tax exempt status is Orange County’s own, Rick Warren and Saddleback Church. Warren has been especially panicked regarding prop 8 and talks about it every chance he gets. He talks about the “sanctity of marriage” and protecting what marriage has meant for “more than 5000 years.”

I find it amazing that the church would go to such extreme lengths to protect the sanctity of marriages like Britney and K-Fed, Jacko and Lisa Marie and Liz Taylor and Larry King’s combined eighteen failed marriages but not Ellen’s one marriage or Star Trek’s, Sulu’s nuptials to his companion of several years.

Equally as perplexing is the time and money that Saddleback and Rick Warren are dumping into a bill that would not only assault the state constitution, but is designed to foster hate and discrimination while the wait list for marriage counseling at Saddleback Church is currently six months. What would Jesus think?

In Warren’s video plea to members he insinuates that both John McCain and Barack Obama supports prop 8. While Obama and McCain did state that they personally view marriage as between a man and a woman, Obama very clearly said that he would oppose any amendment of the Constitution to define marriage at all.

View Warren’s message here, and a clip of Joe Biden clearing the air here.