Pastor Rick Warren Likens Gays To Pizza

Pastor Rick Warren Likens Gays To Pizza
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'Just because I like pizza it doesn't mean I should marry it"

In an interview with Ann Curry on NBC's Dateline, Evangelist Preacher, Rick Warren, who is set to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration, equated gays getting married to eating pizza everyday.

"Mr. Warren's relating gays to pedophiles, incest and gay marriage to his incessant craving of sex with women he was not married to caught me a little off guard.," said Ms Curry, "But after the camera stopped filming he went on to make the comparison of gays to pizza, I must say, I was startled."

"Just because I like pizza it doesn't mean I should marry it," said Warren. "Biologically, I am predisposed to enjoy the immaculate melding of mozzarella cheese, red sauce and thick crust baked to tasty perfection. [ad#med-square] But that doesn't mean I should enter into a lifelong commitment with Sicilian or plain, nor bed it down, nor READ THE REST OF THE HOT PIZZA, NOT SO HOT SELECTION FOR INVOCATION DETAILS HERE.

Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young is author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" (greatfailure.com) and blogs at the appropriately named, steveyoungonpolitics.com.

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