December 18, 2008, - 2:34 pm
Priorities, Schmiorities: The Wrong Outrage on Pastor Rick Warren, Syria’s Best Bud
By Debbie Schlussel
By now you probably know how gays and assorted other left-wingers are outraged–outraged!–that Barack Hussein Obama’s “gone rogue” on them and invited pro-life, anti-gay-marriage, New Age Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church.
And, of course, the liberal mainstream media is following suit.
But, as I noted back in the fall when John McCain and Obama debated at Warren’s Church, the real outrage against Rick Warren is his enabling of the patron-saint-state of terrorism, Syria.
Warren gleefully visited Syria with his wife and paid homage to the Bashar Assads. And he had the gall to praise Syria as a “moderate” country. He had nothing negative to say in the least about this family that has wreaked havoc on Lebanon, worked in concert with Hezbollah and Iran, used his state as a shelter for every Islamic terrorist group imaginable, Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner, Jamil Al-Gashey (the only surviving Munich terrorist), etc.
Not a word from Rick Warren about the extreme repression of human rights, to the point that anti-Syrian journalist Salim Al-Lawzi disappeared in Lebanon and was never heard from again, after he visited from England. The lovely Assad family sent his hands in a box to his family members in the West. Then, he was found mutilated and tortured to death–all courtesy of the Assads.
Ignoring all this in the name of a nebulous, damaging “outreach” is emblematic of Obama’s worldview, and is far more important than Warren’s views on gay marriage and abortion (I happen to agree with his views on those, but he’s done nothing to stop either, other than mere lip service).
But you know our priorities: Who cares if someone supports terrorists bent on Jews’ and Christians’ destruction and elimination? Who cares if they help the enemies of the West and cut off people’s hands decapitate the heads of those who write things they don’t like? Who cares about homicide bombings of 300 U.S. Marines and civilians?
But oppose gay marriage and abortion? Now, we’re talking.
I have news for these lefties. Their children and grandchildren might not be around to enjoy the establishment gay marriage and the continuation of abortion, if they continue to focus on the wrong priorities.
The ultimate civil right is life. And when we honor clerics like Warren who continue to prop up those who wantonly take it away, we endorse their mass murders.
It’s simply an outrage that Rick Warren will be anywhere near the inauguration of any American President . . . even Barack Hussein Obama.
I was disppointed with this when I saw it, too. But only because I hate as evangelical Christian seeing Rick Warren hoisted up as our representative. The guy’s a total sellout. The fact he’ll be involved with this says a lot about him and where he really stands. His goal is to be the next Billy Graham, who, sadly, was quite a sellout, himself.
Blayne on December 18, 2008 at 3:35 pm