Christo-fascist Rick Warren Scrubs Anti-Gay Message

I previously did a post on Friday that focused upon Saddleback Church's policy of barring "unrepentant gays" from church membership and queried whether or not Barack Obama endorsed the church's bigotry. Lo and behold, today it is turns out that Saddleback's website has been modified to delete the offending page (pictured at left) although you can still find the anti-gay language via Google's cache. As John Aravosis noted at America Blog, the questions that spring to mind are:

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So does Rick Warren now welcome gays, all gays, as members of his church? Or is he simply embarrassed of his views - embarrassed of God's views, per Warren's own admission? And if Warren is embarrassed of God's views, then what is he doing as a public spokesman on religion?

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Tonight on Hardball, Mike Rogers debated the Rick Warren issue and from the clip I saw, Mike did a good job even though some of the others discussing the issue were condescending and/or petty. Granted, I would not have suggested that perhaps Warren has "seen the light." Many of us are indeed outraged by the Warren selection and we are NOT confined to "Cambridge MA, Georgetown DC, the Upper West Side of NY, Santa Monica and San Francisco, CA" as suggested by Mike Barnicle who I often find to be a conceited pompous ass.

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The reality is that Rick Warren is a Christianist extremist and personally, I suspect that all the focused scrutiny on what Warren is really all about was getting to be too much for both Warren and Obama and that, if the scrutiny continues to go unstopped, Warren might well have to be uninvited. Scrubbing the anti-gay message on the Saddleback Church website was but an example of efforts being made to lessen the embarrassment to Obama and/or to avoid Warren being uninvited. The scrutiny needs to continue so that Warren's extremism is fully exposed.