A meeting between President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at , once planned for this week, has been canceled.
As Patch reported in mid-July, to bring the two politicians to the Lake Forest megachurch.
Instead, Saddleback's main pastor announced Wednesday that he no longer would hold the forum but instead invite religious leaders to a September meeting at the church.
Warren cited the negative tone of both campaigns as his reason for not holding the event. Planning had been taking place for months.
"We created the civil forums to promote civility and personal respect between people with major differences," Warren said in an interview with the Orange County Register. "The forums are meant to be a place where people of goodwill can seriously disagree on significant issues without being disagreeable or resorting to personal attack and name-calling. But that is not the climate of today's campaign. I've never seen more irresponsible personal attacks, mean-spirited slander, and flat-out dishonest attack ads, and I don't expect that tone to change before the election."
The well-known pastor hosted then-Sens. Obama and John McCain in 2008 at his first such forum at the church.
The Mormon church has all the same perks as Saddleback but that don't make it right. Rick Warren has long scene sold his soul to the devil.
Got to hand it to him; He capitalizes on the brainwashed religious "victims". Tell you what, you send me $5 and I'll guarantee you'll go to heaven.
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Unfortunately, IMHO on the surface this decision to abandon the forum looks like a convenient way to avoid discussing theological differences with Romney and Obama's stance on gay marriage. Negative campaigns are here to stay; the reality is if these guys are slandering each other so bad, why shouldn't one of the most engaged religious leaders in America call them out on it on national TV? Warren has missed his chance to clean up the race, and that's disappointing because I suspect that's not the direction God was really leading.
Check out the Bible's Deuteronomy 22:13-21. The Bible has to be one of the most disgusting books of fiction ever written, particularly when it comes to marriage, family, sex and the maltreatment of children. So you'll excuse me, Mr. Warren, if I don't believe what the Bible instructs - to stone to death all women who don't demonstrate an intact hymen on their wedding night.
Then they can move on to Biblical family values, since he also fathered seven kids with five women, only two of whom he was ever married to. In a civil discussion, of course. After all, Eastwood is a Korean War era Army veteran. And a GLBT rights supporter, so perhaps a discussion of Warren's duplicitous claims of abstinence from Prop 8 involvement could also be on the docket. My bet's on that chair.