Pastor Defends Invitation to Obama

Obama is one of nearly 60 speakers scheduled to address the second annual Global Summit on
AIDS and the Church beginning Thursday at Warren's Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.

Obama, who is mulling a run for president, plans to take an
HIV test during his appearance Friday and encourage others to do the same. The Illinois Democrat will be joined by a potential 2008 White House rival — Republican Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record) of Kansas — and is urging unity to fight AIDS despite differences on other issues.

Conservative evangelical Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council, e-mailed reporters Tuesday to protest the visit because of Obama's support of abortion rights. "Senator Obama's policies represent the antithesis of biblical ethics and morality, not to mention supreme American values," Schenck wrote.   Follow ME!

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    The fact that Mr. Schenck has the nerve to question anyone's ethics is appalling. I follow many of the so-called Christian teachings that some of these morons preach to their congregations and most have no room to question anyone's ethics or values. Most of those behind the pulpit today have even less ethics!                                                Michael d