Can Rick Warren Play Both Sides of the 'Gay' Marriage Battle?
For a man who is arguably the most famous religious leader in the world after the Pope, Warren is surprisingly sloppy when it comes to speaking in public. He acknowledged as much during an April 6 appearance on "Larry King Live," saying that "Everybody should have 10 percent grace when they say public statements." But Warren needs more like 50 or 60 percent grace.
There are two main reasons Warren tends to get himself in trouble when he talks in front of a microphone. The first is that unlike most public figures, he doesn't carefully script every utterance. In the now-infamous Saddleback video address in which he offers a full-throated endorsement of Prop 8--a video Warren seems genuinely surprised ever became public, despite the fact that it was distributed via email to 30,000 people and posted on his blog at the church's website--the pastor appears to be speaking off-the-cuff. "You need to...
