Rick Warren is trampling on MLK Day and it's OK
Filed by: Guest Blogger
December 26, 2008 4:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/12/rick_warren_is_trampling_on_mlk_day_and.phpEditors' note: Guest blogger Matt Hennie is a freelance journalist in Atlanta. A product of the legacy media (those printed newspaper no one seems to be reading anymore), he jumped into the blogosphere in September with the launch of Project Q Atlanta, Project Q Atlanta, a site aimed at LGBT Atlantans.
It's not so much that Rick Warren is coming to Atlanta next month that bothers me. It's that he's trampling all over the annual services celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. and doing so with the blessings of those entrusted with protecting King's legacy.
A new chapter in Warren-gate is being written, this one with a setting in the South. Long before President-elect Barack Obama invited Warren, the evangelical mega pastor from California, to deliver the invocation at his swearing-in, organizers of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemorative Service asked Warren to headline their event at Ebenezer Baptist Church where King once preached. News of the Atlanta invite hadn't surfaced until Warren-gate became a national story and now gay activists here are plotting their next steps.
