Rick Warren Saddleback Church
Rick Warren Saddleback Church
Barack Obama and John McCain will both be at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church tonight, where they will take questions separately from Warren on various national issues. Note that this is not a debate, in which the candidates would take questions simultaneously, though they are expected to share the stage for a brief photo opportunity. The event is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m.
This afternoon, Barack will return to Saddleback Church as the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. He will join the presumptive Republican nominee, Senator John McCain of Arizona, in their first overlapping appearance of the general election.
Warren led the congregation in a prayer for those suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world and a prayer to rid the world of the deadly disease. He was followed by the Republican senator, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and the Democratic senator, Barack Obama, who both called for bipartisan cooperation in combating HIV/AIDS.
The Saddleback Church is an evangelical mega-church which has over 22,000 members. Rick Warren, the pastor, is also the author of the best-selling book “The Purpose Driven Life”. He has not open endorsed either candidate.
An interfaith meeting will be held at Saddleback Church in conjunction with the candidates? event. Warren will also deliver a ?special sermon? on August 17 concerning the election.
Warren, who has built a sprawling church campus and an international following around his best-selling book, “The Purpose-Driven Life,” invited Obama to speak before the 2,000 or so evangelicals who gathered here for “Race Against Time,” a conference devoted to the ways in which churches can work to alleviate the AIDS crisis. The invitation caused a stir among anti-abortion leaders on the right. The National Clergy Council, among others, urged Warren to disinvite Obama, saying it was immoral for Christians to work in any capacity with anyone who supported abortion rights.
Obama offered to stay away, telling Warren in a phone call earlier this week that he didn’t want to be a distraction from Warren’s AIDS work. Warren declined, saying Friday that the AIDS problem is too big to start turning away people who are willing to “work to save lives.”
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