Lying for Jesus

Rick Warren, the fat slob who "pastors" (read: CEO) a WalMart-like mega-church in Orange County, California, has denied that he ever equated gay marriage to incest and paedophilia. Too bad for him that we live in the modern age in which televised interviews are captured on tape. Rachel Maddow presents Mr. Warren's denial followed by an interview in which Mr. Warren states what he claims he never said. In other words, Rick Warren lies. To disguise his lie and to divert attention from being caught lying, Mr. Warren is now using that tried-and-true technique of every sordid, crooked politician: accuse your opponents of hate speech and present yourself as an innocent victim. Again, too bad for him that we live in the modern age in which sharp-eyed journalists like Rachel Maddow don't take his BS at face value. Rick Warren is no victim, no martyr; he's not even an honest man. He's a scurvy bigot. The rock he lives under has been overturned, and the world sees the creepy things living beneath it.

Mr. Warren should shut up, make his momentary appearance at the inauguration, then slither back under his rock in Orange County. Instead, this man with an ego vaster than his enormous waist and butt won't shut up but continues to demand attention by telling more preposterous lies, thus egging the press and bloggers into searching out all his wacko ideas. The blog La Figa has discovered that Mr. Warren is a dimwit creationist who genuinely believes that humans and dinosaurs lived together in a world that was created a mere 6000 years ago. (Yes, that's right; Rick Warren thinks that the cartoon world of the Flintstones really happened.) This lunacy ought to amuse the Internet for a good long while.

As a consequence, Mr. Obama is in a pickle. Mr. O got himself into this mess because, as the self-appointed new Moses, he wants to embrace all America and lead us hand-in-hand to the Promised Land. The inauguration was supposed to be a kind of winter love-in on the Potomac. Instead, he's embracing the growing embarrassment that is Rick Warren. His inauguration is being diminished by the antics of a fat, attention-seeking clown. Cut your losses and save yourself needless trouble, Mr. O; rescind the invitation and get somebody else, somebody bland and boring, to call down blessings upon your holy self from the gods.

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