Pastor Rick tells Ann Curry he’d like to have sex with every beautiful woman he sees, but he curbs that natural impulse because he’s mature and has learned to delay gratification.
Notice how Pastor Rick™ not-very-cleverly avoids the question about how he’d respond to a finding that homosexuality was innate biologically. He quickly starts up talking about promiscuity — that of "many gay friends" he counsels not to have multiple sex partners as well as his own well-curbed appetite for every beautiful woman who comes into view.
Do you agree that Pastor Rick™ has a twinkle in his eye when he talks to the lovely Ann Curry about his struggles with his own promiscuity?
This is the smarmy sex-obsessed preacher Barack Obama wants to invoke the Lord’s grace on his Inauguration? Give me a break. He’s no different than any other crazed anti-gay bigot on the right, horrified but titillated by the opportunity to talk about sex with a pretty lady.





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Is it just me, or did Ann look like she was deciding whether to run away when he said he wanted to have sex with every pretty woman he sees?
Delay gratification..WTF does that mean? He gets a hard on courtesy of every beautiful woman he sees and takes it home to wifie? Gee..how did we all live so long without knowing that he only finds beautiful women sexually attractive? And why do we need to know that now?
“It doesn’t matter if it is biological”. Here it is in his own words..he has decided that what God created is up to him to condemn and judge. How do wingnuts like him get a national platform?
Poor Ann..she had to sit there and be subjected to sexual fantasy comments from a sleeze bag. Give her a raise. A big one.
It seems that those that try to control other people’s sex lifes always have problems with their own.
His body language is interesting. He twiddles his thumbs and doesn’t maintain eye contact. Hmm..he knows he is spouting well rehearsed lines of propaganda, perhaps?
Somebody find Jimmy Carter’s Playboy interview, quick!
Oh, that would be me.
brb
Excerpt of Jimmy Carter Playboy interview, September 1976 – for which he was mercilessly vilified.
Oh that Jimmy Carter, always quoting Christ. *g*
I’d sure like to hear Jimmy debate Pastor Rick™! Somehow, “consider yourself better than someone else” seems to be at the core of Pastor Rick™’s “theology.”
There was a two second reaction that showed in her raised eyebrows. I’d like to know what went through her mind. With the slight nod she gave..I think she might have been thinking..gross..but I have to continue this interview with this pervert.
She is a very pretty woman, so she knew he was alluding to thinking thoughts of having sex with her. Ann showed class under pressure; Warren has none. She was briefly in the ‘fight or flight’ state. Poor lady, she was trapped. He says that he has many gay friends. No he does not. You are a friend to no one when you discriminate against them.
Since when is shyness and fear biological?
I’m afraid the fundies left their Jeebus out tending their Towncars in the parking lot, while they attend their snake-handling ceremonies inside, where it’s warm. The Old Testament is all they know.
“Jeebus who?”
EEEwwwww! And just what does he do once the ‘delay’ is over?
Nevermind! I really don’t want to know.
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Isn’t that the truth. They keep spouting all the selectively careful Old Testament crap and forget that there is a New Testament with a slightly different message.
Love one another. Especially your enemies.
Judge not.
Do unto the least of these and you do unto me.
Yeah, that stuff.
The thumb twiddling is creepy. Try it yourself: he’s controlling his physical responses with the twiddling. And slowing his thought processes down.
And he’s making shit up as he goes. I don’t know what the stuff about shyness and fear has to do with any of this. And you can no more ’fight’ some shyness and fear than you can sexual orientation.
Project extreme promiscuity onto his gay ’friends’ much? Yup. Alot.
Keep talking Pastor Rick, everyone’s watching. Closely. He’s been hiding in plain sight and that’s over now.
Whoa: what he’s also saying is that ’fighting’ homosexuality is just like fighting shyness and fear. And it’s actually cruel to say any of that.
And it’s ok for him to have these rampant promiscuous feelings because he’s heterosexual.
He sure does think he’s in charge of everyone and everything. Does he ever say anything remotely humble or gracious?
What the hell was that?!?
Dude’s less insightful than I thought. Wow, just wow. What a stupid answer. Even as someone who wavers from agnostic to atheist, I’ve seen some evangelicals speak that really made me question me beliefs. This guy doesn’t at all. If Obama wanted an evangelical, there are so many more that would’ve been great speakers. It must be because this guy has the audience size Obama’s looking for.
And speaking of size, Warren better find a stairmaster soon or he’ll be meeting his Master sooner than he thinks. Yeesh.
I’m so tired of idiots trying to enact laws based on their opinions. Why should his opinion be any more important than mine? Is his opinion so important that people are to be denied civil rights based on it. Good grief!
Ugh..the visual..the visual.
Equating promiscuity with homosexuality is a “bias” just like believing that woman can’t drive and that black people eat watermelon.
He’s playing into one of the stereotypes of gay people. That they have promiscuous sex in bathrooms, and sex shops. That they are sex addicts.
Of course as a therapist I separate the issues. There are straight sex addicts and gay sex addicts. One of my sex addict clients who is also gay, has tried to argue with me that all gay people are promiscuous. He knows that is just a rationalization. Those of us who love gay people in our lives (children, sisters, brothers, parents,…) no that this stereotype is not accurate.
Sex addiction happens to both straights and gays, and is often terribly destructive to healthy intimate relationships.
I can’t believe my typos sometimes…”no” replace with “know”.
He is selling this bigoted stereotype with no license. He is making shit up.
Like Diaper Vitter, Larry Craig, Mark Foley, or the thousands of others, when Rick Warren gets caught in a sex scandal, he will do what they all do. First he will lie and deny it. Then, he will confess that he is a sinner. He will recant. He will promise not to do it anymore (but can I please keep my million dollar position or something similar?).
This is why society needs to move away from this archaic thinking. It is crap. Consenting adults should do whatever they damn well please. We usually do. We just lie about it when we get caught.
I just really, really hope that this isn’t the beginning of a beautiful “spiritual adviser” relationship between Obama and this horrible man.
If that’s what is happening here, we can count on no gains in equality for either gays or freedom of choice for wimmin. We’re in big trouble if this guy comes further into the tent with O.
I cannot help but be repulsed by what I’m starting to perceive as Obama’s “Daddy complex”. What IS it with men and their fathers, or lack of one? And why does he have to have some “strong” man to tell him what to believe/think?
Thanks Teddy.
This creepy interview should be a deal killer for the inauguration. This Warren guy is a sick pervert.
I watched the whole interview broadcast and I found it frustrating, disturbing, and stupid. And empty.
He’s SELLING A CHRISTMAS BOOK. And his message for these tough times is ”don’t be afraid” for no other reason offered than he says so.
The whole business about 3 kinds of laws in the Bible is a loophole to demonize gays while dismissing other laws in the Bible that he doesn’t want to follow. He’s like oh come on, no one follows THOSE laws, just the one against homosexuality! Outrageous!!!!
I think he’s a danger to everyone and I don’t like repeating his lies about one group of people even to counter them.
He says Prop 8 is a free speech issue that threatens his speech?????? What kind of constitutional pretzel malarky is that. Like if Prop 8 isn’t passed he *might* be speaking his mind and be accused of being discriminatory. It’s a huge logic FAIL! It’s all about Warren.
I also saw elsewhere that Warren said ha ha he should probably follow the Bible’s teachings about overeating and then he wouldn’t be fat. Ha Ha. Yeah, but he doesn’t and not only does he lead a sect he doesn’t refuse membership if you are fat … just if you are unrepentantly gay. Unbelievable.
Another Note: Yes, the Dalai Lama is against homosexuality for religious reasons but you rarely hear him speak about it or teach about it. BECAUSE he is respectful he doesn’t use it as a means of bashing or demonizing anyone. It’s hard to even write that becuase he won’t bash or demonize anyone. Can’t we have more spiritual leadership like that?
I have no doubt that Pastor Rick™ will eventually be exposed as a serial fornicator. With any luck, on or about January 20th.
I feel sorry for these aberrant creatures who were born with some kind of FU gene that makes them unable to control their “difficult urges.” Right now, science is not advanced enough to “fix them” and their only recourse is to join a fundamentalist group with a strong leader who will teach them to block out urges by filling their brains with religious talking points. In their zeal to lessen temptations, they want to impose their religious laws as our civil laws. I will pray to the couch that a cure will be found for them soon.
Warren has been selected by Davos. Look at the picture of him at Davos and have a barf bucket beside you. Apparently, he was not picked by Obama; he has been anointed the replacement for Rev. Billy Graham.
I think that this article is extremely important. Permission is given to reproduce in whole with attribution of authorship and link to this article. Teddy..how about you doing a front page on this?
http://www.opednews.com/articl…..0-712.html
Trying again…the first link went to the main page…If I don’t get it right this time..find the article over there, please…
http://www.opednews.com/articl…..0-712.html
The heading over at Opednews is ..Rick Warren: The New National Preacher- He’s “Davos People”.
Anyone here able to explain to me why sometimes cut and paste does not work? What the heck can I be doing wrong?
Good find. I did not know that Warren went to Davos. It does appear that he is the chosen National Warmongering (America is Always Right and Blessed To Make War) Preacher ala Billy Graham.
Warren is unfortunately not very good at choosing his words. He is tripping all over his dick. A replacement may be in order.
I really want to respond to the dick tripping..but it would get censored!
It is fortunate that Mr. Oily is not very good. Now he can be exposed for the corporate shill he is. A smooth talker would have gotten away with the ruse of good religious guy. Now, we can watch for the replacement and counteract the same.
The picture of him at Davos..two down from the war criminal Tony Blair..says it all as to whether Warren has any ethics.
The US Military is now in the Christian Reality TV Business. In the article ‘they’ say that government is set up by God. Seems to me that is word for word what Warren says, too. The public and military seems to be getting the same message..”In Gov’t we trust”.
http://www.talk2action.org/sto…../12544/058
It appears to be brainwashing combining church and state to convince people not to question government decisions. Someone make it stop! They are perpetuating Bush’s Crusade against Islam to promote their damned wars.
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The Today Show clip labels itself “Rick Warren One-on-One”
Shouldn’t that read “Rick Warren One-on-Every-Pretty-Woman-I-See”?
Beware of preachers who can’t stop talking about sex