Ethics

More on Rick Warren and Anti-Gay Views

By Ed Brayton

Bruce Wilson has an important post at Talk2Action with another big piece of evidence about Rick Warren's anti-gay views. I've written many times about the barbaric treatment of gays and lesbians in Nigeria, backed by both Muslim and Christian leaders there. I wrote two years ago about the draconian law in Nigeria that strips gay people of all rights and puts them in prison or even to death in some parts of that country.

I also noted that these laws had the support of Peter Akinola, the Anglican archbishop of Nigeria, who has been publicly praised by the religious right in this country. And Wilson notes that the law he supported was actually worse than the law in Nazi Germany. And no one has heaped more praise on Akinola than Rick Warren.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).