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Rick Warren's Church Removes Anti-Gay Statements from Web Site

Posted by Matt Corley, Think Progress at 4:00 PM on December 22, 2008.


Warren's Saddleback Church has taken down statements that said "someone unwilling to repent for their homosexual lifestyle" would not be accepted.

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On Friday, AmericaBlog's John Aravosis pointed out that the Web site for the Rev. Rick Warren's Saddleback Church explicitly said that "someone unwilling to repent for their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted as a member at Saddleback":

 

 

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Today, however, Aravosis notes that the anti-gay language has been pulled from the Web site. View a Google cache of the original page here.

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