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Huff TV: Hillary Rosen On AC360 Discussing Obama's Controversial Inaugural Pastor Pick
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Hilary Rosen unloads on Warren selection apologists on AC360
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by Pam Spaulding
I don’t know if you watched Anderson Cooper last night, but he did some slamming coverage of the Rick Warren debacle on his program. He basically had to referee a heated debate between Hilary Rosen editor-at-large for HuffPost and a CNN contributor, CNN’s Roland Martin and Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic National Committee Member and CNN contributor. Hilary Rosen had the afterburners on last night; she had no patience for the attempt by Roland Martin to give legitimacy to Rick Warren and called it “an outrageous mistake.” Read and watch it. (H/t Towleroad re: the ...
The Divisiveness Of the Rick Warren Choice
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Note: I'll be on CNN at 3:10 with Rick Sanchez to discuss Rick Warren. If I do half as good as Hilary Rosen did last night on Anderson Cooper, I'll be delighted -- jh
Sarah Posner on Rick Warren:
Warren protests that he's not a homophobe; ...
Unacceptable
Suburban Guerrilla —
For Obama to invite Rick Warren to be part of his inauguration ceremony is, quite simply, disgusting. I’m so appalled, I don’t even know what to say. It would be the equivalent of John McCain asking David Duke to say a few words.
Barack Obama is a major league asshole...
The Reaction —
Guest Post by Ted ...for choosing homophobic Proposition H8te-supporting minister Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation. Here's an ad that Warren made supporting Proposition H8te: Seriously? Warren and his "we're not homophobes but gay people should not be allowed to marry" crowd keep talking about the biblical definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. How many wives did the biblical big guys have? Samuel 12:7-8 "And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king ...
Phil Bronstein: Why Is Anyone Surprised Obama Picked Warren?
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Just when you thought maybe the molten lava of Prop 8 protest backwash had cooled to street steam and legal challenges, BOOM! Barack Obama, of all people, rolls a great big grenade under the door of the gay community.
If you haven't heard the yelling the last 24 hours after the announcement that controversial, pro-8 Pastor Rick Warren will be giving the opening prayer at the Obama inauguration next month, you must already be on vacation somewhere without any media access. Lucky you.
Everywhere from the Christian Science Monitor to Queerty is filled with the holiday song of righteous indignation and unhappiness. A CNN debate, refereed ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Thursday, December 18, 2008
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Thursday, December 18, 2008
Fait Diver: “Another Teriffic Point”
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by David E | (Visited 81 times) poster Anne E. Kornblut hosts a cascade of cluelessness — with occasional screams of outrage — in today’s Pravda : Rochester, Minn: Hi Anne, Merry Christmas! Help me understand this. The gay community is upset at the inclusion of somebody whose viewpoints they strongly disagree with. Am I the only one who see the irony in this? I guess Obama’s campaign promise to include a wide range of differing viewpoints is no longer “change we can believe in”? I never pegged the gay community to be so hypocritical, but I was wrong. Anne E. Kornblut: It’s a really interesting question — and it was interesting to see how team Obama handled ...
Mikko Alanne: When "Disagreement" Becomes Murder
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Some people seem genuinely puzzled by the uproar over Obama's choice of anti-gay activist and megachurch pastor Rick Warren as inaugural speaker. It's just words, they argue, free speech, what's the big deal? Obama himself said of Warren: "We can disagree without being disagreeable."
The problem, as many commentators have noted, is that we're not disagreeing about abstract ideas -- we're disagreeing about civil and human rights.
I would argue that we're disagreeing about most basic human right of all -- the right to live a life free of violence.
Because words are where violence begins. And in America, violence against gays, lesbians, and transgendered ...
