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RachelWatch: Droning On

Ali Davis — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:54:54 +0000

Heavy Medal

Rachel started us off with a look at President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance – a delicate trick when you’ve just escalated a war. Sort of like giving a wedding toast(...)

Withers: 10 random thoughts, round tres

James Withers — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:25:23 +0000

1. If you climb a gate, jump into a zoo habitat for polar bears, and get beat down by a polar bear, expect little sympathy from me. Instead I’m going to laugh and start a petition demanding(...)

Withers: Warren says he never said what he said

James Withers — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:29:53 +0000

Huddle up people. Listen, if you want to be against marriage for gay folk, I can live with that. Free country and all. You want to say some crazy stuff about marriage for same sex couples,(...)

Vanasco: What does the DuBois appointment say about Obama and gays?

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:17:22 +0000

Josh DuBois might be called a New Evangelical. He is a Pentecostal pastor who believes Jesus is his personal savior. But he also seems to put more weight on the social gospel (that is, that(...)

Prayers, protests in lead up to Inauguration

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:46:12 +0000

(Washington) LGBT activists demonstrated Monday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, protesting the appearance of Pastor Rick Warren at Martin Luther King Day observances.

Warren was invited(...)

Rick Warren: Friend or foe to gay Americans?

barbarasimon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:01:24 +0000

Megachurch pastor Rick Warren gets a high-profile spot in the Obama Inauguration. See why the new president chose him, why the gay community is upset, and why some say Warren is actually a sign of progress for LGBT America. Craig Feigener reports.

Warren protest planned at King church

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:37:51 +0000

(Atlanta, Georgia) A coalition of activists is planning to protest The King Center’s choice of the Rev. Rick Warren as keynote speaker on the federal observance of the Rev. Martin Luther King(...)

Corvino: Are our opponents like segregationists?

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:27:58 +0000

In terms of gay-rights progress, brace yourself for a difficult year.

This is not because things are getting worse. It’s because the national conversation on gay-rights issues is getting(...)

Neff: Pastorgate II

Jennifer Vanasco/editor — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:18:33 +0000

Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20 is building up to be one of the most monumental in contemporary American history.

Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his(...)

Withers: Kristol has no sense of irony

James Withers — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:49:34 +0000

You would think after spending 8 years shilling for the Bush White House, New York Times columnist William Kristol would at least learned a little irony. There isn’t anything wrong with(...)