Tag Archives: Rick Warren

Box Turtle Bulletin directs us to this new video from Rick Warren’s former BFF, Pastor Martin Ssempa, who is mighty pissed about Warren’s late-but-welcomed denouncement of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill. BTB’s Jim Burroway points out that Ssempa outright lies when he claims that child rape is not against the law in Uganda.

Rick Warren has sent an emergency email to his followers, claiming that unless his Saddleback megachurch gets $900,000 by the end of today, something terrrrrrrible will happen! “Dear Saddleback Family,” begins today’s missive from Warren. “THIS IS AN URGENT LETTER unlike any I’ve written in 30 years. Please read all of it and get back to me in the next …

According to a report in tomorrow’s issue of the UK’s Guardian, Ugandan member of parliament David Behati has presented his “kill gays” bill and vows that it will not be watered down. In addition to the death penalty or a life sentence for some cases, the bill provides for the imprisonment of people who don’t turn in someone they know …

Last night Rachel Maddow covered Rick Warren’s long-overdue denouncement of Uganda’s “kill gays” bill, pointing out his previous hypocrisies and lies about Prop 8. Watch this.

After weeks of media criticism, Rick Warren has at last specifically denounced Uganda’s now-dismantled “kill gays” bill. Previously Warren had said it was not his business to “interfere with sovereign nations,” despite his years-long championing of the bill’s chief proponent, Martin Ssempa. The text of the below video is here. An excerpt: We are all familiar with Edmund Burke’s insight, …

After weeks of international condemnation including threats to end foreign aid, Uganda will be dropping the sections of its anti-gay bill that call for the death penalty or life imprisonment. The draft bill, which is under consideration by a parliamentary committee, will drop the two punishments to attract the support of religious leaders who are opposed to these penalties, Buturo …

In a Christian Post article about an upcoming biography of Saddleback megachurch Pastor Rick Warren, we learn that Warren freely admits that when he married his wife, he didn’t love her, was not attracted to her, and had “no feelings” for her at all. But he married her anyway because the marriage had been arranged. By God. Perhaps one of …

Last night Rachel Maddow tore into Uganda’s proposed “kill gays” legislation and its ties to American evangelicals, Rick Warren, and major GOP politicians. WATCH THIS.

Last month we learned that Uganda, where being gay can already bring a life sentence, was considering a death penalty for homosexual acts in certain situations. The proposed new law is now before Uganda’s parliament. Life imprisonment is the minimum punishment for anyone convicted of having gay sex, under an anti-homosexuality bill currently before Uganda’s parliament. If the accused person …

Things really heat up in the last minute.

….from the beating up he’s gotten from all sides after last week’s double-talk bullshit about having never supported Prop 8. In fact, he’s SO exhausted, he flaked on yesterday’s scheduled appearance on ABC’s This Week. Instead of explaining contradictory statements over his actions regarding California’s Prop 8 on same-sex marriage, Rick Warren went with Plan B today: He didn’t show …

Pastor Rick Warren appeared on Larry King last night to say that he has never been anti-gay or against gay marriage. Funny, we remember Warren comparing same-sex marriage to pedophilia and incest. AmericaBlog reminds us of the exact quote: Steven Waldman: One controversial moment for you in the last election was your support for Proposition 8 in California.Rick Warren: Eight, …

Yesterday Melissa Etheridge appeared on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM radio show to speak about her defense of Rick Warren. Etheridge responded to her critics by saying, “I am sorry if they felt like in any way I undermined them. I truly believe everyone has their perspective and position on this. I’m glad for the activists who say this is not right …

The results are in.

You probably fondly recall Dan Savage’s successful redefinition of former Sen. Rick Santorum’s last name, a legacy that will follow Santorum as long as teh interwebs exists. Now Savage is looking to give Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church the same treatment. Here are Savage’s suggestions; email your vote to him at [email protected]. (1) “Logically, if ‘barebacking’ means having butt sex with …

Making the blog rounds today is this 2005 speech from Rick Warren in which he urges a stadium full of his followers to emulate the actions of the Hitler Youth in their fanatical devotion to creating a theocracy in the United States, “whatever it takes.”

Barack Obama has invited openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson to give the invocation at an inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Via press release from the HRC: Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson, bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church in the diocese of New Hampshire has accepted an invitation from President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural committee to deliver the invocation at a …

I don’t know yet if this list is in reaction to the list issued by the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission. Links go to more detailed GLAAD pages on each item. Note that some names have multiple links. In alphabetical order, here are the biggest haters according to GLAAD. Bill O’Reilly (Host, The O’Reilly Factor, FOX News Channel)Bill O’Reilly, who frequently appears …

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 …