Tag Archives: Inauguration Day

HomoQuotable – Melissa Etheridge

“I believe I understand Obama’s choice here. I believe that Barack Obama wants to be the President of the entire United States. Pastor Rick Warren reached out to him, brought him into his church during the campaign, which outraged many members of his church. Yet he reaches across and I think this is Obama reaching back and going, ‘I think …

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Obama Spokesman: The President-Elect Will Not Be Attending Mid-Atlantic Leather

Somebody at ABC figured out that the Obama inauguration happens a couple of days after the 25th Annual Mid-Atlantic Leather (MAL) Weekend in DC and wondered if the President-elect would be dropping by. Thousands of tourists pouring into Washington, D.C. for President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration will be sharing the nation’s capital with a few thousand predominantly gay leather fetishists, in …

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Suit Filed To Stop Prayer At Inauguration

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit to stop prayers from being offered at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Among those being served with the suit are Rick Warren and Joseph Lowery. The Madison-based foundation, its co-presidents Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor and several of its members are among the 29 co-plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit, Newdow vs. …

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Bill Kristol Thinks He’s A Poetry Critic

From Bill Kristol’s op/ed piece in the NY Times: Obama has selected Yale’s Elizabeth Alexander to compose and read a poem. I still remember watching Maya Angelou read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993 — and thinking that American culture really was in a state of irreversible decline, as she indulged in that multicultural cataloguing …

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Frank Rich On Rick Warren

NY Times columnist Frank Rich thinks its time to let the Rick Warren thing go and prepare to judge Barack Obama by his deeds. By the historical standards of presidential hubris, Obama’s disingenuous defense of his tone-deaf invitation to Warren is nonetheless a relatively tiny infraction. It’s no Bay of Pigs. But it does add an asterisk to the joyous …

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Joseph Lowery, The Other Inaugural Pastor, Is Also Against Marriage Equality

From last night’s episode of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on MSNBC: JOSEPH LOWERY: “Well, I’ve never said I support gay marriage. I support gay rights and I support civil unions. Like a whole lot of people, I have some difficulty with the term gay marriage. Because deep in my heart, deeply rooted in my heart and mind, marriage is associated with …

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Pat Robertson: Rick Warren Is Not Obama’s Pawn (And PS: Keep DADT)

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Rick Warren Does Damage Control

In a transparent move to bolster his image with LGBT people, Rick Warren visited an AIDS thrift shop in West Hollywood yesterday to pose for photos and buy some books (two of which were his own). TMZ reports: We got this pic, taken yesterday at Out of the Closet thrift store. That’s Warren on the right (naturally), his arm around …

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Warren: Bloggers Are Lying About Me

Rick Warren says that bloggers “really need to get a life” and stop lying about him. And then he goes right on to LIE that he’s never compared same-sex marriage to incest and pedophilia. Here are his exact words from his December 15th interview with BeliefNet. “The issue to me, I’m not opposed to that as much as I’m opposed …

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Mike Rogers Goes On Hardball To Talk About Rick Warren

Renowned LGBT activist Mike Rogers (BlogActive, PageOneQ) went on Hardball last night to debate Rev. Eugene Rivers about Rick Warren. Rogers gets some really good shots in, watch this. Digby’s take: Rogers took a very unusual tack and said that Rivers coming on the show to defend Warren shows how powerful the gay community is and that he was very …

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HomoQuotable – Harvey Fierstein

“A couple of boys were calling my best friend a faggot one unhappy day at summer camp. Courses of action seemed slim to my adolescent mind. I could stand up for Jack branding myself a fag as well and insuring myself a miserable summer, or I could join in with the name callers, lose my closest friend, but assure my …

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Rick Warren Pulls Anti-Gay Message From His Church’s Site

Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church has just scrubbed its site of the above message announcing that unrepentant gays were unwelcome. John Aravosis wonders why: So does Rick Warren now welcome gays, all gays, as members of his church? Or is he simply embarrassed of his views – embarrassed of God’s views, per Warren’s own admission? And if Warren is embarrassed of …

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NYC: City Hall To Open For Inauguration

If you can’t get your broke ass down to DC, the New York City Council will open City Hall to the public to show Barack Obama’s inauguration on big screen TVs. Via emailed press release: Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the Black, Latino and Asian Caucus and the New York City Council announce that City Hall will open its doors to …

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HomoQuotable – Jasmyne Cannick

“At a time when you should be apologizing to and trying to build bridges with African-Americans after exposing your closeted racism towards us over the passage of California’s Proposition 8, you’re at it again. “The man isn’t even in office yet and you are all up in arms over the inaugural invitation of evangelical pastor Rick Warren by President-elect Barack …

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Inauguration Program

(Via Radical Russ @ Pam’s House Blend)

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Afternoon View – Swagauguration

DC is awash in inauguration swag – from Obama bottled water and breath mints- to pink “First Lady” sippy-cups, so you can look all feminique and shit while you get your inaugural krunk on.

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Maddow: More On Rick Warren

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Rachel Maddow: Picking Rick Warren Is A “Lose-Lose” Move For Obama

Last night Rachel Maddow made the correct observation that inviting Rick Warren to give the invocation at Barack Obama’s inauguration was not mere reciprocity for having been invited to speak at Warren’s Saddleback Church. As Maddow notes, Obama invited Warren to our inauguration, to the nation’s stage.

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More Warren Reactions: Frank, Solmonese, GLAAD, LA LGBT Center

I’ve been inundated with emails from various groups denouncing the selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. I’ll add to this post through the day as I get to them.Barney Frank: “I am very disappointed by President-elect Barack Obama’s decision to honor Reverend Rick Warren with a prominent role in his inauguration. Religious leaders obviously have …

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Obama Responds To Rick Warren Flap

Barack Obama was questioned about his selection of Rick Warren during a televised press conference this morning. His response: I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and — well, let me start by talking about my own views. I think it is no secret that I am a fierce advocate for equality for gay and lesbian Americans. It …

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