Rick Warren, Caught in a Lie, Skips This Week

Pastor Rick Warren, controversial inaugural invoker, was set to appear this morning on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." According to Politico, he bailed at the last second:

Pastor Rick Warren, after making apparently contradictory statements about his stance on a gay-marriage measure, canceled an Easter Sunday appearance on ABC's "This Week" just "moments before the scheduled interview," host George Stephanopoulos told viewers.

Stephanopoulos said Warren's representatives said the best-selling evangelical author was "sick with exhaustion." The host told viewers that he wished the pastor a speedy recovery.

Warren's appearance would have given him the chance to clear up his claim last week on CNN's "Larry King Live" that he "never once ... gave an endorsement" to California's Proposition 8, a successful November ballot measure that banned gay marriage in the nation's largest state.

Maybe he's sick with guilt over his lie, or exhausted from holding gay people back, because Warren certainly did endorse Proposition 8.



Still, if Warren is on board now,would it be the worst thing in the world to let Warren off the hook here?

Rick Warren was a big booster for Prop 8 when it still mattered, when people were still voting on it. Now that the tide has turned, and gay lightning is striking everywhere, it's not too late for Warren to decide to do the right thing. But he doesn't get to pretend he was all along.

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