openleft.com - 12/14/2008
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Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson has an interesting article on the campaign against Proposition eight in California, and what they did wrong. What's interesting about the post-mortems, though widely known, is how little scrutiny the anti-prop 8 leaders have actually gotten. Dickinson's ...
prospect.org - 12/15/2008
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prospect.org —
RICK WARREN DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH: I'M NOT
A HOMOPHOBE. "They can't accuse me of homophobia," says
Rick Warren , the celebrity preacher and icon of the "new" or "broader agenda" evangelicals, in a new interview with Beliefnet editor Steven Waldman . ...
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americablog.com - 12/17/2008
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americablog.com —
Gee, maybe Donnie McClurkin wasn't a fluke. Picking
Rick Warren to give THE invocation is abominable .
I'm doing my research and will be updating this post in a minute. Rick Warrens eats with gays But hey, Rick Warren says being gay isn't the ...
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Obama picks homophobe pro-'Prop 8' evangelical preacher ...
oxdown.firedoglake.com - 12/17/2008
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oxdown.firedoglake.com —
In another Donny McClurkin moment , magnified by
the context of this historic inauguration, the Joint Inaugural
Committee has chosen Prop 8 homophobe and noted religious nutcase Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church and Store™ to deliver the ...
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Prop 8 Homophobe Rick Warren to Deliver Inaugural ...
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I’m late, I’m late: Critiquing No on 8
Comments from Left Field —
... Strategically, Yes on Prop 8 followed the arc of another successful political campaign effort using the power of misinformation rather than change. As Matt Stoller notes in his analysis of the Rolling Stone article and the No on 8 campaign effort, the California Democratic political machine notoriously bungles political efforts in the state with its over-reliance on television and political bosses and its under-reliance on the bases and networks of established community activism. ...
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