Rick Warren draws criticism for distancing himself from Proposition 8. Months after his invocation at President Obama’s inauguration enraged same-sex-marriage advocates, Rick Warren found himself facing criticism from same-sex-marriage opponents. The California megachurch pastor incited some conservatives’ fury in April after he seemed to distance himself from California’s ban on the marriages. Warren told Larry King on CNN, “During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never