Is Warren Less Open-Minded Than He Lets On?

What questions are important to PETA? What questions are important to the NAACP? To pretend that certain sectors of the US voter base don't have particular questions that are important to them is just poor reasoning. Within each political voter block there are different concerns. Though it might not be very important to some doesn't mean it isn't important to others. Christians happen to have their own group of questions and issues that can make or break a candidate for them. And Rick Warren did express issues with Obama and not McCain. Has it even crossed your mind that maybe John McCain performed better than Obama. I don't like McCain but he whopped up on Obama in this forum! Obama is not perfect and he is no savior. He is a politician...Just like McCain. A politician who just got beat down in a forum of questions that reflect many of the concerns of evangelical voters. He'd win in a forum at PETA, NAACP, NOW, etc. It is just how these things go...

I do not understand why Rev. Warren did not simply announce that Sen. McCain was in route to the Church? Why did he feel the need to make the statements about the "cone of silence? What was he trying to tell the audience and why was it important?

REVEREND Warren lied, plain and simple. McCain lied, plain and simple.

Good Christians all the while. Let's see what the conservatives do now that their little lie has been exposed. Any bets that they will excuse it, belittle those who complain about it, and suggest that anyone who disagrees with them is anti-American?

What a bunch of liars.

In spite of being set upon with biased questions, Obama stayed true to form. He fold what he believed and why. You may not agree with him but you have to say he had the guts to be himself.

McCain stayed true to form as well, only he wasn't challenged by how he avoided real answers to the questions asked.

My problem was why were there no questions that reflected how different the two are about energy, social services and the quality of life for the poorer of the world and America?

Rick Warren let me, a Christian who sees American support of Human rights violators as sin, hanging. And that is just one of many areas that McCain has not been challenged on.

Another is the fact that while many jumped on the chance to attack Edwards for his infidelity, nobody condemns McCain for the same. If fact, now they are talking about putting Rudy Giuliani on the ticket.

The Religious Right and the so called Evangelical circuit have shown their true colors. They are in fact, died in the wool Republicans first, Christians second. And while I listen to Rick Warren for his Christian outlook on Religious matters, I will not adhere to his political stance of Republicans, right and never wrong.

I'm not going to call Rick Warren a liar. But one more open bias towards the Republicans and that's IT! He would've lost my respect.

John McCain opposes abortion, but supports Stem Cell Research and the Christian right gives him a pass. How's that for hypocrisy? John McCain knows he lost the Republican nomination in 2000 because he didn't pander to the Christian right. It is one thing for a Republican candidate to go into a Christian forum and tell them what they want to hear (that life begins at conception), it is another thing to be a man whose ways are ordered by the Lord. John McCain is an adulter, an angry man and a war monger. How's that to people of faith?

If Rick Wareen believes that abortion reduction is not enough, that making it illegal is the only thing the right will accept, what does he say about divorcees and adulters who're preaching the gospel? what does he think about pastors who're enriching themselves with money collected from the pulpit by twisting the word of God? What does he say about Bishops who beat their wives, cheat and lie? What does he think of closet gay Republicans who're vocal critics of same sex marriage and homosexuality? What does he think of Republican law-makers who claim a high moral ground, just before their addiction to pornography is found out?

If you ABSOLUTELY believe WITHOUT A SHADOW OF DOUBT that life DEFINITELY begins at conception or that you will not die but live to declare the wonderous works of the Lord, then you know everything and don't need God.

The Bible says Lean not unto thy own understanding and that the things that are beyond our understanding should be left to the Lord. His ways are not our ways. Questions of life after death, why good people die and whether life begins at conception are things that are beyond our understanding and should be left to the Lord. As Barack Obama rightly put it, IT IS BEYOND MY PAY GRADE.

Frankly, I was never able to get onto the Saint Rick bandwagon. I was thumbing through "Purpose Driven" a long time ago and stumbled right into a passage where he equates contemplative traditions with superficial self help books.

Any minister who knows that little about Christianity and is that popular and influential I frankly find a bit scary.

So far, all the comments and the GOM article seem to be biased toward the left. It seems that Warren's questions were spot on as far as priority. I think it is splitting hairs to say that Warren "found time for the discretion of religious groups question but not for climate change or international poverty." I could pretty much give you the answers from both candidates on climate change and poverty. We would learn nothing new from these questions. You see it in every secular forum. I appreciate his use of time in getting each candidate to thoughtfully answer questions from the heart instead of giving the canned response and talking points we normally see.