Did anyone catch this lie (uninformed pronouncement?) by Rick Warren?

[goodgd_yall]

In asking McCain what his definition of marriage was, McCain, unsurprisingly stated,

"A union -- a union between man and woman, between one man and one woman. That's my definition of marriage."

Then Warren says,
"Let me ask you a question related to that. We have a bill right here in California, Proposition H, that's going on, because the court overturns this definition of marriage. Was the Supreme Court of California wrong?"

This "defintition" was not overturned by the California Supreme Court. The point of the decision was that the California constitution did not define marriage as between a man and a woman, so the proposition passed in 2000 that made marriage between people of the same gender illegal, was ruled unconstitutional.

Those opposing gay marriage would like us to believe that when the law allows for same sex marriage, there has been some overturning of the status quo. But, in fact, in California the status quo never restricted marriage to only unions between one man and one woman.

[XemaSab]

1. It's prop 8

Proposition H sounds like a hemorrhoid cream. :o

[goodgd_yall]

2. I thought that didn't sound right

It's local measures that use letters. I'm not sure if Warren said that or the transcriber misheard.

[DesertFlower]

3. lol.

i'm having a bad day. thank you for making me laugh.

[QC]

4. I wish Warren had asked him about his multiple wives.

It's funny how the fundamentalists are always in a tizzy about homosexuality but have warmly embraced remarriage after divorce, even though Jesus Himself strongly condemns it (though He never said a single word about homosexuality).

Of course, evangelicals have the highest divorce rate of any religious demographic in the country, so if Warren started talking about divorce, the bottom line would suffer.