Rick Warren's Dream - His Own Nation-Building - Untold Consequences: Rick Warren's AIDS Activism

I believe this is what Rick Warren wants to "use" his influence with President-elect Obama for. This article tells us that Rick Warren was the person who steered George Bush into the HIV/AIDS funding, and also that this is where we find out more about the African Ministers who are blatantly and unashamedly homosexual hatred spinners. All in the name of the Purpose-Driven Nation Dream of Rick Warren:

Untold Consequences: Rick Warren's AIDS Activism
Kathryn Joyce on December 19, 2008

http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2008/12/19/untold-consequences-rick-warrens-aids-activism

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Warren's transformation into the evangelical AIDS "it person" is relatively recent. Earlier this month, on World AIDS Day, he awarded President Bush his ministry's first international P.E.A.C.E. award for contributions to fighting HIV/AIDS. Warren's own AIDS work, together with his wife Kay, began in 2002, ostensibly when Kay read a magazine article about the burgeoning population of AIDS orphans in Africa. That year, Warren led a group of evangelical churches in pushing a reluctant Bush administration to adopt a global AIDS policy, resulting in the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, launched in 2003.

"For all intents and purposes, was a good thing to do," says Jodi Jacobson, consultant for RH Reality Check and the founder and former executive director of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), an NGO that promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights. "But with the entry of evangelical churches, in alliance with the Catholic Church, all funding for prevention became very fraught."

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How that flawed policy plays out can be disastrous. As journalist Michelle Goldberg noted at Religion Dispatches, one of Warren's protégés in Uganda, the rabidly anti-gay pastor Martin Ssempa, has interpreted Warren's faith-driven solutions to the HIV/AIDS epidemic by burning condoms at universities and offering faith-healing to disease-stricken congregants. Other PEPFAR grantees, as Jacobson's colleagues in the global AIDS movement have witnessed, use their funds to promote fundamentalist interpretations of marital roles, advising women that if their husbands beat them, they should try harder to please them.

"We found enough examples of these things to make me very worried," says Jacobson.

Emmanuel Kolini, the Anglican archbishop of Rwanda, who called homosexuality a form of moral genocide, is on the National Steering Committee of Saddleback Church's Western Rwanda HIV/AIDS Healthcare Initiative.

"When such a high-profile, leading spokesman on an issue that affects women and gay people and men who have sex with men and sex workers reinforces messages of stigmatization of anyone who's different, it creates a climate in which money is going to organizations that have little to no accountability," says Jacobson. "We don't know what's going on with these groups abroad. In my mind it ties in to religious leaders who seek to heal the sick, but on their terms or not at all."

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I intend on keeping a close watch on this "dream" of Rick Warren's and hope you will too!

Everyone needs to know that this man is up to.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Haven't we had enough of corruption like the privately run Military Industrial Complex of Black Water types under the radar Billion $$$ payoffs? Of course we have and I hope and pray we don't get taken down a rose covered path by Rick Warren to help him accomplish his "world" vision!

Especially since they are exploiting the poor and sick in Africa.

He says "We're fighting AIDS!" which any sensible normal person would interpret as "We're trying to help African people not to get AIDS by giving medicine, condoms, advice on safe sex, sexual education in general, helping out orphans, and doing everything we can to actually make a social and health system in which people don't get AIDS."

Warren says that because he knows that's how most people will take it.

What he really means is, "We're using all this money to convert people to fundamentalist Christianity, because that will save them, and we're teaching them that sex is bad and wrong, condom-use is wrong, and that there is no such thing as safe sex, only Jesus-sex, and we're doing all this in an attempt to make those places we go to little American colonies, in the name of the American Jebus, so that we can get more money for our own stuff."

Warren is a liar, a charlatan, and a con-man, through and through. There is nothing Jesus-y about his theology or his actions.

It is good to know there are others out there that "see" the truth!

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I'm going to extend the invitation I gave to 1776Forever http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4703484&mesg_id=4704309

can end up becoming genocidal efforts that are far from anything Christ-like.