Heather Clark, Christian News Network — Despite recent comments that he would never again make statements on political matters that could be construed as public declarations, Rick Warren, author of the best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life and pastor of Saddleback Church in California, recently posted a message on Twitter to his 800,000 followers reinforcing his opposition to a largely church-supported homosexuality bill that is set to pass this month in the East African nation of Uganda.“An unjust law in Uganda is back in the news,” Warren wrote on Thursday. “I opposed it 3 yrs ago and I still do.”
Below the Tweet, Warren reposted a video that he had created in 2009, which outlined his position on the matter.
“As an American pastor, it’s not my role to interfere with the politics of other nations, but it is my role to speak out on moral issues, and it is my role to shepherd other pastors who look to me for guidance,” Warren said in the 6-minute video. “[I]t is my role to correct lies and errors and other reports when others associate my name with a law that I had nothing to do with, and I vigorously oppose and completely condemn.”
[...] A pastor at Saddleback Church told Christian News Network last week that while he did not view Warren’s interview with the Huffington Post, he believed that Warren was indicating to Hill that he “would not be jumping into politics again.”
The pastor, who identified as Jim, deferred to Warren for further comment, but telephone calls to Warren’s office have not been returned.
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Watch Warren’s 2009 video statement below: