Hillary Clinton to speak at Rick Warren's church

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Hillary Clinton to speak at Rick Warren's church

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) will join Rick Warren at his California church this month for an AIDS conference.

Warren says he has invited several other presidential candidates from both parties to attend his third annual Global Summit on AIDS, but Senator Clinton is the only one, so far, to confirm. According to a press release, others who have expressed interest and currently are dealing with scheduling issues include GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Rudy Giuliani, and Democrats John Edwards and Senator Barak Obama (D-Illinois).

According to Warren, "Inviting politicians from different perspectives to the Summit is not a political decision -- it is a humanitarian and Christian action." The Summit is scheduled for Nov. 27-Dec. 1 at Saddleback Church, Warren's church in Lake Forest, California.

Obama was one of the speakers during Warren's Global Summit on AIDS last year, as was Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) who last month withdrew from the GOP presidential competition.

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Clinton under fire for taking 'sixth' position on licenses for illegals

A conservative political analyst says Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton's handling of the issue of driver's licenses for illegal aliens is an instance where she has "failed to lead." The analyst expects the former first lady's rivals will be using her weakness on the issue to make her talk more about the issues she's been avoiding in the primary campaign.

Senator Clinton (D-New York) announced yesterday that she no longer supports giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants and backs New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's decision to dump his "licenses for illegals" plan. Clinton, whose announcement came on the eve of the next scheduled debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, has come under fire from opponents on the right and the left for both waffling and flip-flopping on the issue.

A spokeswoman for presidential hopeful Senator Chris Dodd (D-Connecticut) called Clinton's position "flip-flopping cubed. She was for it before she was against it, before she was for it, before she was against it."

And the campaign of Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois) responded to Clinton's latest stance by saying: "When it takes two weeks and six different positions to answer one question on immigration, it's easier to understand why the Clinton campaign would rather plant their questions than answer them." That statement is a clear reference to the Clinton campaign's recent admission that it had planted a question about global warming during a town hall meeting in Iowa.

Some commentators have suggested that Mrs. Clinton -- or her campaign handlers -- convinced Governor Spitzer to abandon the licensing idea because it has "created so much heat" for her candidacy that it needed to be dropped. Carrie Lukas, vice president for policy and economics at the Independent Women's Forum (IWF), notes Clinton has been in lock-step with Spitzer -- so "she must be taking her cues from someone else."

"I think that she must have read the poll numbers and has seen that Americans overwhelmingly do not support the idea of giving driver's licenses to those who have entered the country illegally," says Lukas. "I think this is just a bald political calculation where she realized that she just was out-of-step with the American people."

And that, says Lukas, demonstrates that Clinton has "failed to lead." The IWF spokeswoman suggests that the New York senator's campaign may "falter" as a result. "There's just something unsavory about this, within the course of two weeks, wholly changing your position on something that pretty much is fundamental," says Lukas. "It's not like she got new information that would change her mind."

According to Lukas, the only information Clinton got was "just how politically unpopular her position was" -- and she is "willing to reverse" because of that. "I think that makes a lot of people just feel uncomfortable that their potential leader isn't really a leader when it comes to core issues like this," adds Lukas.

Lukas says Clinton has not only avoided giving a straight answer on illegal immigration, but also on other important issues such as Social Security. And up until this point in the primary campaign, she adds, Clinton has been able to "skate free unchallenged" on issues she has ducked. Clinton will be taking part in a Democratic presidential debate tonight in Las Vegas on CNN.

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Warren, Clinton urged to tackle homosexual promiscuity at AIDS Summit

A conservative activist is urging both California pastor Rick Warren and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-New York) to address a politically incorrect aspect of the U.S. AIDS crisis at Warren's upcoming "Global Summit on AIDS and the Church." The Democratic presidential candidate has accepted an invitation to speak at the event later this month at Saddleback Church.



Pro-family activist Peter LaBarbera says he shares Pastor Warren's desire to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS but wonders what solutions a politician who is an ardent supporter of the homosexual agenda has to offer in combating the disease. "He says that he's a co-belligerent with people who he disagrees with on other issues," notes LaBarbera, "[so] I guess the question would be: does he disagree strongly with Hillary Clinton's approach to homosexuality and even the AIDS crisis?"

Although he admits he is skeptical of what solutions a defender of the homosexual lifestyle like Clinton has to offer churches for fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis, the activist is calling on Warren and Clinton to use the upcoming summit to tackle the problem of homosexual promiscuity, which often results in HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

"We have homosexual bath houses operating in major cities across this nation," LaBarbera notes. "These are places where men go for anonymous sexual liaisons with other men. They're bringing the HIV virus back to innocent women, because some of these men do not identify as 'gay' and they're even married. So what about that aspect of the AIDS crisis?"

LaBarbera, founder of the group Republicans for Family Values, is hopeful Warren will take advantage of the opportunity to confront the Democratic presidential frontrunner on her acceptance of homosexual behavior. "On her statement when she said that homosexual behavior is not immoral, she basically turned the Bible on its head," he observes. "It would be wonderful if Pastor Warren would publicly challenge her and say that this isn't showing true compassion for people trapped in homosexuality, and [that] you can't rewrite God's law."

LaBarbera says although it is not politically correct today for churches to speak out against homosexual promiscuity, he believes Warren, with his prestige, could effectively tackle the problem if he so desired.

According to statement from Pastor Warren, "Inviting politicians from different perspectives to the Summit is not a political decision -- it is a humanitarian and Christian action."