I couldn't bring myself to actually watch this event. Here's the NPR story announcing it: Pastor Rick Warren Brings McCain, Obama Together : NPR

See also: ONLINE NEWSROOM: Rick Warren and Saddleback Forum Video & Transcript: Obama / McCain with Rick Warren Kingdom People

Political candidates have no business speaking in churches and churches have no business inviting political candidates to give presentations.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

A huge televised event over the weekend and no one wants to touch it?

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Why the hell not? The members of the church are voters and are aloud to recieve a speech by the candidates.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

But the Church itself is a 501(c)(3) organization. There are IRS regulations that prohibit certain kinds of political activity by churches. Besides, the liberals love to argue how there is supposed to be all this separation of Church and State (unless it's a black church endorsing a Democrat, then it's okay).

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

It's full of voters, so the candidates should be allowed to speak with those voters.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

Absolutely not! History has shown what happens when Church and State get in bed with each other - I don't want that repeated here, thank you very much!

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Sorry, but church goers have full rights, including voting rights, whether you like it or not.

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Set your destination with your heart, get there with your mind.

"The wisest men follow their own direction." - Euripides

CHURCHES don't, given their tax-exempt status and the privileges afforded them as apolitical, SPIRITUAL entities.

Church-goers have rights, and they can feel free and in fact encouraged to exercise them.......in political parties, at rallies, in their backyards, but NOT AS A CHURCH. This is not a theocracy, and we don't want it to be one. Evangelicals elected GW in 2004, do we want that to happen again?

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"Bring me that horizon".

Should it become a theocracy, then I'll be joining you at your place to commence armed resistance.

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"Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states...Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."



~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

But Zeph, you support gun control, the cops would have your weapons in a matter of seconds.

This country is moving dangerously close to a theocracy. "Well Obama is a muslim." "McCain cheated on his wife". Why the hell are our candidates going to a faith-based circle-jerk in the first place? Why haven't the American voters (other than myself) demanded that they both be sat down together, and forced to answer questions from the Libertarian and Green Party candidates? Why can't we have a serious policy discussion in this country?

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"Bring me that horizon".