Friday, December 11, 2009
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Bishop Gene Robinson - "Don't show me with your words show me with your actions."
[excerpt from interview, posted yesterday]
"But I have to say the hope and change was so exuberantly in the air yesterday I think almost everyone there from the most exalted to the most humble thought they were present thought we present for the beginning something that we could know was a turning point. And for gay and lesbian and bisexual and transgendered people, we had that sense as well...[Obama] has indicated in virtually every possible way that he would be the gay friendliest president we've ever seen..."
Read the whole article on Belief.net
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Can we find common ground with Warren?
...Given the proliferation of "bad cops" who have made hay out of this controversy, including gay leaders trying to change the subject from Prop 8, now is the time for "good cops" to reach out to Warren and see whether he would throw his specific support around some level of legal recognition, or perhaps even federal civil unions.
Read the whole post.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Warren - What Matters?
Rick Warren's inaugural prayer is the central front in the struggle for marriage equality in the same way that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was the central front in the War on Terror.Focus.
- David Quigg, Huffington Post blogger from Seattle
Read the rest of the column.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Embrace What You Have In Common With Rick Warren
Embrace What You Have In Common With Rick Warrenby Lee Stranahan on the Huffington Post
We want to cram Obama into our old, divisive, two toned ideological and political frame and if he doesn't fit, we'll attack him too. Attacking is what we're used to doing.
Apparently, Barack Obama meant what he said about our politics being too small for our problems.
With job layoffs and new miserable financial statistics being announced every day, how else can we explain the press and some Republicans being endlessly fascinated with the non-connection between between Obama and Blagojevich? How else does one explain the thrashing about of some progressives over the idea of Pastor Rick Warren saying a few minutes of prayer at Obama's inauguration?
The answer is simple; we currently practice a mighty small politics in the United States.
You might not like the idea of Prop 8 supporter Rick Warren anywhere near Washington on January 20th. None of my friends do. This isn't hype; the people who are so bent out of shape about Warren are literally all my friends or people I admire.
Like my comrades, I think Warren is dead wrong on same sex marriage. But the reality is that at the end of 2008, a majority of voters in California agreed with him. A majority of Americans agree with Warren about same sex marriage and many more states have made marriage equality unconstitutional than have ratified it.
Read the rest on the Huffington Post.
Pissed about Rick Warren?
Check out the Project Postcard action
on civil rights front.
Dear President-elect Obama,
Rick Warren should not deliver the inaugural invocation. He is a proponent of legislation that is discriminatory towards the LGBT community. Please choose someone who will speak to all Americans.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Read more, and Stand Up, Speak Out, and Stay Strong.
