Warren’s Words
January 22, 2009 by Julia King
The good news is that Rick Warren knows the words. He stood in front of the world, bowed his head and said that Americans are united “by our commitment to justice and freedom for all.”
Amen.
It’s not true, of course, but it’s a good story. As everyone knows by now, Warren lent his considerable influence to the passage of California’s Proposition 8, which changed the state’s constitution and banned same-sex marriage. Freedom and justice for all? Not exactly.
As I was complaining to a friend about Warren’s obvious hypocrisy, about his successful impression of an enlightened man, she said something smart: “Well, at least we can use his words against him.” And she was so right. Then I wondered if Warren knew what he had done, or if his love of words – his love of speaking the right words at the right time — had talked him right into a new era.
We will see…
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