Saddleback Church mega-church pastor and the man who delivered the invocation at the President’s inaugural, Rick Warren, went on Larry King last night and insisted, despite all the video footage out there of him on his anti-gay efforts, that he isn’t against gays or same sex marriage. (!). Right. What…
If you were channel surfing to catch HBO’s inaugural concert coverage at the Lincoln Memorial where openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson delivered the invocation, you didn’t see him. Remember, this was the supposed salve on the wound to the LGBT community for the upcoming high-profile appearance of Rick Warren…
Yesterday I ran a couple of video open letters to Rick Warren — from Faith in America‘s Mitchell Gold and Tracey Zoeller, author of “The Pastor’s Daughter.” Today’s open letter is from Rodney Powell, a member of Faith In America’s board of directors and a former student activist in civil…
Nancy Goldstein has a post at Broadsheet about the Obama campaign’s invitation of Gene Robinson—the Episcopal Church’s first gay bishop—to deliver the invocation that starts the festivities, an obvious attempt to signal that Obama really means it when he said that Rick Warren was invited in some spirit of inclusion,…
NOTE FROM PAM: Jeff Lutes, executive director of Soulforce, a national civil rights and social justice organization dedicated to freedom for LGBT people through nonviolent direct action, gave me permission to repost his piece about a personal encounter he had with the disingenuous and smarmy Rick Warren, who is now…
On Hardball Monday night (hosted tonight by the insufferable Mike Barnicle, who believes all the LGBTs and allies who are mad at Rick Warren live in only five cities), friend of the Blend Mike Rogers of PageOneQ.com and BlogActive took the debate chair against the Rev. Eugene Rivers and shot…
(UPDATE: Rick Warren pulled the anti-gay language from his church’s web site (see the Google cache for the original language). The relevant question is whether the church now suddenly welcomes “unrepentant gays,” and if this is about Warren being embarrassed or Team Obama putting some heat on him – a…
Pam covered this video earlier, but I still have to post on it. Watching this interview with Rick Warren, I have to admit that I’m surprised that he is as popular as he is, because he’s pretty incoherent, even by low wingnut standards. His argument against gay marriage—against gay people,…
I guess we’re all “aberrant-sex activists,” so here’s a little weekend entertainment. Peter LaBarbera and I go way back. I’ve already earned the titles of “vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist” and “nutty lesbian blogger” from the the Illinois-based head of the curiously obsessive Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality, so this is…