From the Left (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Actress Anne Hathaway appeared at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and wasted no time weighing in on the Rick Warren controversy surrounding President-elect Barack Obama: “I expect him to explain that choice of Rick Warren. I don’t get it. All my friends and I were trying to figure it out, but we [...]
State of the Day (Free subscription) | yesterday
Max Blumenthal looks into the truth behind Rick Warren's much touted "good deeds" in Africa (and they are anything but good): But since the Warren inauguration controversy erupted, the nature of his work against AIDS in Africa has gone unexamined. Warren has not been particularly forthcoming to those who have attempted to look into it. His Web site contains scant information...
AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Max Blumenthal has conducted an in-depth investigation of Rick Warren's supposed AIDS in Africa work. It's absolutely horrifying. [An] investigation into Warren's involvement in Africa reveals a web of alliances with right-wing clergymen who have sidelined science-based approaches to combating AIDS in favor of abstinence-only education. More disturbingly, Warren's allies...
Vote By Issues! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Though this shouldn’t surprise anyone. I’ve found that far-right bigots have a rather difficult time with the commandment concerning “bearing false witness.” Well, in an effort to keep the controversy over Obama’s selection of an anti-gay bigot to give the invocation at his swearing, Rick Warren’s friends are not only accusing civil rights [...]
The RBC (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Warren thinks stem cell research is so evil that "purpose-driven" people have to oppose politicians who support it. Torture, not so much. Warren thinks that my fellow atheists and I are automatically unfit to hold public office, because we're "arrogant" (unlike, of course, people who think they have a direct pipeline to God and therefore can tell the rest of us what God wants us to do)....
Papa Mike's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
You non-believers have a lot of b#**s to think you can stop Pastor Rick Warren, with the backing of over 200 MILLION Christians from doing anything…Do we really care what these idiots have to say? You know if we just STOP giving these Atheists air-time maybe then they would just go away!!.How about this judge [...]
get angry WITH me! (Free subscription) | yesterday
A number of people have asked me to get all hot and bothered by Obama's invitation to Rick Warren. Here's why I'm not: Though the idea of listening to Rick Warren give an invocation at Obama's inauguration doesn’t fill me with unalloyed ecstasy, I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude about this for several reasons. During the election Warren invited Obama to speak at...
Hi! (Books, bikes, movies and me) (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://vids.eonline.com/services/link/bcpid1396519019/bctid6621603001 (((yes, please explain that... I love you Anne Hathaway, yum!)))
America's Watchtower (Free subscription) | yesterday
A federal judge has decided that he will hear arguments in a case being brought about in order to stop the Reverend Rick Warren from giving the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration. There are about forty groups and individuals who are trying to stop Rick Warren from speaking at Obama’s inauguration, led by America’s most famous atheist Michael [...]
Just Jared (Free subscription) | yesterday
On Tuesday, Anne Hathaway was interviewed on the red carpet at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. E! asked what she expected of Obama in the New Year. Said Anne, who has a gay brother, “I expect him to explain that choice of [Orange County mega-pastor] Rick Warren [to give the inauguration prayer]. I don’t [...]
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Presidential Elect Barack Obama has caused some controversy with the choice of Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration later this month. Warren is against gay marriage and has been outspoken in his support of Proposition 8 in California. While some people point out that Warren is a kind man who is [...]
Mike Tidmus : Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our friends at Queers United point to an excellent idea: You can put the loathsome pop-pastor Rick Warren, who Obama foolishly chose to do the whole in-god-we-trust-shit part of his inauguration, to work for our queer rights. From Queers United: Rick Warren is a homophobic, anti-equality preacher who will be delivering a prayer at the inauguration ceremony for president-elect...
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona: Rick Warren foes aren't practicing tolerance Jordan Lorence says Rick Warren's views on marriage shouldn't bar him from Barack Obama's inauguration. COMMENTARY By Jordan Lorence Special to CNN http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/06/lorence.warren/index.html January 5, 2009 Proponents of redefining marriage couldn't wait for the new president to be sworn...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Martin Ssempa, Rick Warren's "sidekick" in Uganda , is no stranger to zealotry and extremism, as this 2004 TNR piece makes clear. In " Enemy's Enemy ," Andrew Rice looks at the Ugandan pastor's role in the country's ongoing evangelicals-versus-Muslims culture war: Ssempa claims his church, though it is just eight years old, has more than 5,000 members. "These are going to be the future...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Apologists for Obama's selection of Rick Warren continually point to his work in fighting AIDS in Africa. OH, but hang on a motherfucking minute. In exhaustive piece at Daily Beast , Max Blumenthal rips the fucking lid off the real job Warren is doing in Africa with his right-hand man Martin Ssempe. [S]ince the Warren inauguration controversy erupted, the nature of work...
