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Rick Warren’s Forum: How to Trick Candidates Into Giving Themselves a Religious Test

Threat Author: 
Katherine Yurica
Threat Date: 
September 6, 2008/[Updated December 19, 2008]

 

"On August 16, 2008, Rick Warren, the affable pastor of the 83,000 member Saddleback Church in Southern California made history by setting up a sequential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain at his church. Warren threw an hour of questions at each of the two presidential contenders, beginning first with Obama and in the second hour with McCain. The candidates fielded his questions before a live audience and the forum was televised and watched by over five million people.

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