Feel the Love Tonight? Rick Warren, Elton John Hold Hands, Joke About Kissing
Before AIDS Panel
[Feel the Love Tonight? Rick Warren, Elton John
Hold Hands, Joke About Kissing Before AIDS Panel by Heather Clark
Washington] "Controversial megachurch leader and author Rick Warren raised
concerns Wednesday after joining hands with homosexual singer Elton John
during a speech before a congressional hearing on AIDS funding, and joked
what would happen if the two kissed.
“It would be the kiss heard ’round the world,” he
said.
Photographs show the two raising their hands as
they sat down to the witness table and laughing as Warren issued the caution
to John. The incident drew concerns from Christians across the country.
“Elton John, the man who has worn more wigs and
dresses than Marilyn Monroe, we expect this from. But Rick Warren claims to
be a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ,” wrote Geoffrey Grider of Now
the End Begins.
“Here was his perfect opportunity to lovingly and
graciously tell not only Elton John, but all of Congress, that without being
born again they will die and go to a Devil’s Hell. But instead, he holds
hands with a gay man, and jokes about kissing him,” he said.
Warren, the leader of the nearly 20,000 member
Saddleback Church, is known for his best-selling book “The Purpose Driven
Life.” Elton John, a world-renowned singer recognized for his hits “Candle
in the Wind,” “Rocket Man” and “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” from the
film “The Lion King,” is also known for his same-sex “marriage” to his
partner David Furnish.
Warren, who believes that homosexual behavior is
sinful, has raised concerns in the past for other statements made about
homosexuality, including omitting any instruction that men must repent of
homosexual behavior in order to be saved.
As previously reported, in 2012, during an
interview with the Huffington Post, Marc Lamont Hill asked Warren if he
believes homosexuals will go to Hell. Warren replied that they will not.
“No, not because they’re gay,” he said. “We go to
Hell because we choose to reject the grace of God.”
When Hill asked what happens to a homosexual that
accepts Jesus, Warren responded enthusiastically.
“He’s going to Heaven!” he declared. “Without a
doubt...” Full text:
Feel the Love Tonight? Rick Warren, Elton John Hold Hands, Joke About
Kissing Before AIDS Panel
Homosexuality is: forbidden (Lev. 18:22),
considered an abomination (1 Kin. 14:24), punishment for (Lev. 20:13),
unclean (Rom. 1:24, 26, 27).
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the Love Tonight? Rick Warren, Elton John Hold Hands, Joke About Kissing Before
AIDS Panel
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