With so much attention focused on the Olympics right now, I almost forgot about tonight's big event: Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, will interview both John McCain and Barack Obama, separately, in a public forum at the megachurch in Lake Forest, California.
For all of his fanfare, I really don't know that much about Warren. At this point, I'm just wondering how close he'll come to doing what most people hope he'll do: be a sort of religious version of the late Tim Russert, who always asked tough, thoughtful questions.
If you could ask both candidates one question, what would it be?
Saturday, August 16, 2008
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I am wondering how this will effect seperation between church and state.
Preacherman,
I thought Warren offered a good response to that concern at the very beginning of the Forum, which I watched last night. He said that, while he believes in the separation of church and state, he doesn't believe in the separation of faith and politics. A nice distinction.
I've just seen clips of the interviews so far, but saw what Warren said about faith and politics and thought it was a great statement.
I've also seen on the news the responses of Obama and McCain about when unborn babies become viable and/or have certain "rights." Obama hem-hawed around and then just totally passed it off, not answering it, while McCain said, without hesitation, "At the moment of conception."
I already know who I am going to vote for based on everything that has gone on up until now, but that straight forward response by McCain helps cement my thinking.
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