Time Magazine refers to bigot Rick Warren as an "AIDS activist"

[MNBrewer]

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2160966,00.html

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this yesterday. Disgusting.

[dbackjon]

1. WTF??

[MNBrewer]

2. Exactly.

[theHandpuppet]

3. OMFG

[pinto]

4. Whaa? (Unable to read the entire piece, Time's paywall).

[DemocraticWing]

5. What do they mean?

Is he an activist in support of AIDS?

[Initech]

6. That's like referring to Justin Bieber as a class act.

[joeybee12]

7. THey're nothing but a right-wing rag these days...

This only confirms how stupid everyone at Time is.

[NCLefty]

8. Wikipedia says...

Warren has worked to shift the evangelical movement away from an exclusive focus on traditional evangelical social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage (regarding the latter, he called divorce a greater threat to the American family[30]), to broader social action. Warren's five-point plan for global action, the P.E.A.C.E. Plan, calls for church-led efforts to tackle global poverty and disease, including the spread of HIV/AIDS, and to support literacy and education efforts around the world. In February 2006, he signed a statement backing a major initiative to combat global warming, thus breaking with other conservative, high-profile evangelical leaders, who had opposed such a move.[31]

Warren's softer tone on political issues once central to U.S. evangelicals and his concern for issues more commonly associated with the political left have resulted in the characterization of Warren as one of a "new breed of evangelical leaders."[32] But it has also been misunderstood by the media, according to Warren, as indicating a shift in position on traditional evangelical issues.[33]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Warren

[MNBrewer]

9. If that makes Warren an "AIDS Activist", then George W. Bush is too....

Which is to say, he's NOT.

[theHandpuppet]

13. Only if someone's idea of being an AIDS activist...

... is imprisoning or committing genocide against LGBTs.

[NCLefty]

10. I'm not saying he is. I'm trying to understand why Time thinks he is.

And the comments that followed didn't shed any light on the matter.

[MNBrewer]

11. perhaps this?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/01/07/the-truth-about-rick-warren-in-africa.html

[MNBrewer]

12. Or this?

http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/12/03/uganda-aids-god-and-gays-rick-warren-and-a-punch-in-the-nose/11116

A version of the anti-gay law mentioned here has now been enacted.