Subscribe to Breaking NewsWithers: Etheridge says give Warren a chance
I can’t wait for the responses. There will be boycott calls and a few will even suggest album burning as the only appropriate response (those people will assure us how radical and uncompromising they are). So here goes: Melissa Etheridge thinks we gays and lesbians should give Rev. Rick Warren a chance.
The guy whose vision on sexuality is one full step beyond kooky is just misunderstood and a victim of the media. At least that is what Etheridge says.
“When I heard the news, in its neat little sound bite form that we are so accustomed to, it painted the picture for me. This Pastor Rick must surely be one hate spouting, money grabbing, bad hair televangelist like all the others. He probably has his own gay little secret bathroom stall somewhere, you know.”
Ahh but this all changed after she and Warren talked over the phone and met. The reverend is a fan of Etheridge’s music despite her incest like loving ways. Okay. Okay. That’s a cheap shot. Warren is an Etheridge groupie, apparently has all her albums, and comes off as an affable fellow in the musician’s description. In fact Etheridge says Warren took himself to task for using the words incest and pedophilia when describing gay relationships. Call me a cynic but I’ll wait to hear Warren say that himself.
Etheridge invited Warren to her home and he to his church. A special plea to my bosses: we need to have our LOGO cameras all over Etheridge and her little gay family when they go to Warren’s church!
I’m not sure where this Etheridge/Warren love fest will get us, but I do have a suggestion to Etheridge. Stay away from any all gay events for awhile. Someone is going to throw a shoe at ya.
There must be a huge financial gain for Melissa to sell out like that. She wouldn’t even have her kids if Warren had his way…..
given the fact he has called us all pedophiles! What a stupid [punk]!!!
Bobby, you said it for me and I’m finished with tolerating those such as Warren. I refuse to fall for that phony smile.
The root of Rick Warren’s anti-gay beliefs is that homosexuality is a curable mental disease. It’s like a drug addiction to him.
I oppose drug use but I’m a big fan of music by known drug addicts. DUH. I don’t fear or loathe people who suffer from drug addiction.
When Rick Warren reaches out to the gay community, his agenda is to cure us. He wants to save us because he loves us so much. It’s psychological abuse people! He’s just sneakier about it. He’s trying to convince us that we’re just suffering from mental dysfunction and we’ll feel better once we repent!
And Melissa Etheridge so very easily fell for his tactics. Yikes. Get thee to therapy, Melissa and process your need for acceptance that’s so intense you took Rick Warren’s “I’m a fan” bait.
“Etheridge says give Warren a chance”
He is for banning gay marriage and views homosexuality morally equivalent to any other sin and ‘perversion’.
Give him a chance for what?
if melissa can change rick warren’s heart, then i say ‘go melissa’. obviously all the other things that have been tried have failed. definitely a fresh perspective…to say the least. i’ve been ranting on my blog for days on the Warren mess. melissa is obviously more loving and tolerant than me!:
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Short of Warren using the invocation to denounce his years of supporting homophobia, I think that this is a bad start for Obama. The gay community deserves better from a man that should know better than to ignore the pain of a community that has taken hit after hit. Once again, the gay community is asked to chill, it isn’t such a big deal. Nonsense. It is a big deal and I am fed up with being patronized by the media and the politicians. I hope that those present in DC at the Inauguration let Obama and Warren know how they feel.
I agree with Melissa, I don’t like the guy or what he said, but we all need to take a collective chill pill. Mormons and their money were the ones who made prop H8 a reality. Not Obama, not Melissa. He at least acknowledged that he f*%d up when he compared gays to incest. Better him that any psycho on the 700 club.
I have to confess I was fairly ignorant about Rick Warren until recently. I first heard about him a few months before the recent news about the inauguration and, like all the supposed bigots I’ve been told about, I decided to see what the man had said and done and give him a chance. After all, just because a few gay people label someone a bigot it doesn’t make them so, and I prefer to make up my own mind.
I researched. I read. I learned about him. I read some of his milder comments about gays and I gave him the benefit of the doubt, assuming he had misspoken or that his words were taken out of context. And then I saw more. And more. And more.
How many chances does this little nutjob think we should give him?
Yes, Rick Warren comes across as a nice enough guy and if it wasn’t for his outright bigotry I think he’s someone I could actually like. But the bigotry is a fairly big sticking point. I mean, he basically thinks that anyone who isn’t straight, white and Christian is going to burn in the fires of Hell for all eternity (though if he’s an example of the sort going to heaven, bring on the hellfire!), and has pretty much said that it’s ok to help them on their way to the afterlife.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – he’s the worst kind of bigot, the kind who smiles and winks as he twists the knife. I pity the poor sap who falls for his “charms”.
A series of public statements insulting to our community requires a public apology and repudiation of those statements, not merely making “nice” with one member of that community. This would be the least this man could do. Nothing short of this would do.
This just makes me angry. I am sorry, but there is a point when we have to stop trying to reach out and play nice with people who have no respect, no love, and no understanding of the community. It’s time to just step back, stop being polite, and start demanding things get done. As a community we need to come together, and we need to find a way, some way through non-violent means to get it through people’s head that “loving us” and then condeming us in the next sentence is not true love.
I will not be tolerated, I will only be accepted.
without a public retraction of his statements about Gays his words mean squat. A private ” I’m sorry” will not do. If you say in public be man enough to retract it in public. How January 20, 2009 in front of half the world. He has her music. Did she see the sales receipt for BestBuy or something. That man is about the $$$$$$ to come. This is the biggest op in his PWT life. Yeah EDDIE I made a racist remark. Come on Melissa don’t go for the oke dok. Him saying a three minute prayer is one thing, but give him a chance to do what Melissa? Girl you have too many dirty diapers lying around the house so now you can’t smell the real B.S.! Carolyn
I’ve given Warren a second chance, and he blew it in about a day. His new video message to his followers blames “the media” and other “evil” people for distorting his words about gays and incest, and goes on to blame LGBTs and our supporters as liars and “Christo-phobes”. He continues to speak for his god, claiming “god created sex exclusively for marriage between a man and a woman”, and repeats the lie that marriage has always meant one man and one woman, everywhere, since the “beginning of man”. His ignorance of other churches and cultures, and even his own state is remarkable. But more importantly, the man is a liar when he says “I believe no such thing” about equating gay partnerships with pedophilia and incest. In his own words, in the interview that sparked all this, when asked “Do you think those [incest, pedophilia, polygamy] are equivalent to gays getting married?” he said “Oh, I do!”. He can’t blame his straightforward answer to that clear question, on the media or the bloggers. He his a homophobic bigot. He’s just recognizing now that you can’t hide from the truth, and that it’s becoming uncool to be so blatant about it.
Eddie is absolutely right. I have no objection to giving a chance to anyone who deserves one, but in order to deserve one, Rick Warren needs to disassociate himself from his own remarks and to evidence a real concern for equal treatment of ALL glbt people as a matter of civil law. He’s welcome to his religious views, including his (mistaken) view that homosexuality is intrinsically sinful – that’s just something about which we can agree to disagree. But as a matter of civil law, all “persons” in this country are entitled to due process and equal protection of the law and he’s got to accept that and agree to work to make it a reality.
I’d be glad to give Warren a chance – right after he makes a public statement repudiating his references to incest, pedophilia and beastiality. Then – if he’s not just running off at the mouth, he can campaign for the repeal of DOMA. I don’t know if anyone has seen Americablog yet, but Warren has removed the anti-gay language from his church’s website this morning.
Poor Melissa, she’s just embarassing herself. Maybe she can go help that poor woman in S.F. who was brutally raped because she was gay and tell her it was just a ‘misunderstanding’.