For years, the mainstream media have insisted that evangelicals are split in two — those who focus on marriage and the sanctity of human life, and those who fight global warming and poverty.
Not so, says the Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of "The Purpose Driven Life." He told The Wall Street Journal there's been a misunderstanding by the media.
"A lot of people hear (about a broader agenda) and they think, 'Oh, evangelicals are giving up on believing that life begins at conception.' They're not giving up on that at all. Not at all."
Though the media seem to crave a good fight, Warren was unable to name any theological issues on which he and Dr. James Dobson disagree.
In the interview, he recalled that tolerance used to be the idea that you "treat others with respect." Now, he lamented, it has come to mean that "all ideas are equally valid."
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