West Hollywood, California (Monday, December 29, 2008) - Rick Warren, the influential pastor of Orange County’s Saddleback Mega Church, supporter of Prop 8 and the preacher invited to give President-elect Obama’s inaugural invocation, made what appeared to be a “politically-correct” appearance in West Hollywood last Monday.
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In other developments, the anti-gay statements made on the church’s website, which deny access to gays and lesbians because its god considers homosexuality a sin, were pulled after the nationwide controversy broke.
The offending paragraph read: ''Because membership in a church is an outgrowth of accepting the Lordship and leadership of Jesus in one's life, someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted at a member of Saddleback Church.”
While the text disappeared soon after MSNBC’s lesbian news show host Rachel Maddow “outed” it on her cable show, Saddleback Church issued a video that explained that their condemnation of homosexuality was still in effect and had been pulled from the site only so the church could “repurpose it for clarity.”
