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For Immediate Release: April 8, 2009
Contact: Diane Gramley 1.814.271.9078 or 1.814.437.5355

With This Attitude, Rick Warren Will Never be “America’s Pastor”

(Harrisburg) -- To some, Pastor Rick Warren seems to have stepped into the place the Reverend Billy Graham once stood – ‘America’s Pastor.’ But according to the American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA), a statewide pro-family organization, Rick Warren just took a giant step away from the rest of America. During Monday’s CNN’s Larry King Live program, Warren apologized for his support of California’s Proposition 8 – the Marriage Protection Amendment. And in his confusion even said he had never endorsed Proposition 8. The AFA of PA is calling on Rick Warren to apologize to members of his Saddleback Church and all other Bible-believing Christians in America and the world.

“Pastor Warren has been tiptoeing around the homosexual issue for several years. Monday night he came out of the shadows and into America’s spotlight as an opponent of Marriage Protection Amendments—thus a supporter of same-sex marriage. ‘America’s Pastor’ should know how God defines marriage,” Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA remarked in response to Warren’s comments on Larry King’s program.

In December 2007 the AFA of PA blasted Pastor Rick Warren for his politically correct ‘World AIDS Day Conference’ where the truth was never spoken about the connection between engaging in the homosexual lifestyle and AIDS. Two and a half months later that truth was finally spoken by Matt Foreman, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, when he shocked attendees of the National Conference on Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender Equality in Detroit by calling HIV "a gay disease."

In 2006 the AFA of PA was part of the AIDS Truth Coalition also asking Warren to address homosexual and ‘gay’ promiscuity through demanding the closure of gay bathhouses and sex clubs in order to stem the AIDS pandemic.

“The majority of Americans, both churched and non-churched, know that marriage is between one man and one woman. Thirty states have passed Marriage Protection Amendments. Pastor Rick Warren is not America’s Pastor – American does not need a pastor who does not know what marriage is,” further commented Gramley.

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