Rick Warren Pizza Story Shocking Update

December 22, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Media · 1 Comment 

As Los Angeles Metblogs reported, the normally very reliable Rawstory.com picked up this column’s “Rick Warren Likens Gays To Pizza” story as real. They’ve since removed the link but RS reader’s comments dealing with the gays-to-pizza controversy remain.

Now I’m not saying that the Pizza column wasn’t fact-based, nor am I saying that Warren doesn’t have a closeted obsession with pizza, but the fact  remains that Rick Warren’s rationale for backing Prop 8 by comparing gay marriage to a pedophile’s desire to marry children or brothers marrying sisters is just as irrational as likening gays to pizza.

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Rick Warren Likens Gays To Pizza (Updated)

December 20, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama · 18 Comments 

“Just because I like pizza it doesn’t mean I should marry it”

In an interview with Ann Curry on NBC’s Dateline, Evangelist Preacher, Rick Warren, who is set to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration, equated gays getting married to eating pizza everyday.

“Mr. Warren’s relating gays to pedophiles, incest and gay marriage to his incessant craving of sex with women he was not married to caught me a little off guard.,” said Ms Curry, “But after the camera stopped filming he went on to make the comparison of gays to pizza, I must say, I was startled.”

“Just because I like pizza it doesn’t mean I should marry it,” said Warren. “Biologically, I am predisposed to enjoy the immaculate melding of mozzarella cheese, red Read more