Rick Warren Validates The Vatican

Editor's note:  

The Purpose Driven Network has been hitched to Roman Catholicism since the release of the Purpose Driven Life, now it's using marriage between a natural man and woman to reinforce the bridge...

Oh, look...the "Church" is now the Protestants and the Roman Catholics!  The Un - Reformation of the 21st Century.  Let's just erase the blood of the Martyrs, Rick.

Gee, did you ( and the SBC ) have to go to Rome to state the obvious?  Apparently the common folk need your and the pope's insight on this politically delicate issue!

Really?  

If you disagree, call your politician, not the pope.  

Oh, wait...the pope is the political leader of the nation-state known as the Vatican.

Good job, Rick ( & SBC ).  

This one's for you, Coach...

Rick Warren on gay marriage: 'The Church must not cave in'

"Marriage can only be between a man and a woman," Rick Warren told an audience at the Vatican yesterday.

Speaking before Pope Francis' Humanum conference in Rome, the bestselling author and pastor of Saddleback church in California passionately defended traditional marriage.

"The Bible says you are to honour marriage. Sadly, today we all know marriage is dishonoured by a lot of people. It's dismissed as archaic, man-made tradition. It's denounced as an enemy of women...it's demeaned in movies and television and it's delayed out of fear that it will limit one's personal freedom. So today instead of being honoured, marriage is ridiculed, resented, rejected and redefined," he said.

"What are we going to do about this? The Church cannot cower in silence...the stakes are too high."

Warren argued that God reveals his presence and his character through marriage, that gender ideology "confuses our identity and destroys our dignity" and that the covenant of marriage and the act of sex parallel an intimate relationship with God.

He therefore stressed the importance of following Jesus' teaching on marriage, rather than bowing to "fads, feelings, opinions or political correctness".

"We build our lives on the unchanging truth of God's Word," Warren said. "You see, truth, is still truth, no matter how many people doubt it. I may deny the law of gravity, but it doesn't change gravity. And just because we break God's laws, does not invalidate them."