Good As You: Rick Warren Roundup
08/02/2012
Dan Cathy deliberately poking hornet's nest
He may say he's "keeping the main thing, the main thing" and act like he wants nothing to do with the controversy that he started. But check out this tweet from Rick Warren: Yeah? Placing boastful calls to a man...
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02/24/2011
Warren piece: 'Ex-gay' book books current-Kay
Over the past two years or so, Christopher Yuan has become a more and more prominent face within the "ex-gay" advocacy movement: And now Christopher and his mom Angela have put that "change" activism into a forthcoming book, titled Out...
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12/31/2009
The Purpose Driven Schadenfreude
Apparently likening homosexuality to incest and pedophilia, comparing gay relationships to a straight man's desire to sleep with multiple women, and voicing opposition to basic civil equality doesn't bring in the money like it used to. This from Pastor Rick...
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11/30/2009
Video: The Purpose Driven [Shirking of Homo-Hostile Responsibility]
He will surely go to his grave denying his considerable role in passing Proposition 8. He will alsoconveniently overlook his other, more outrageous comments, like when he suggested that gay peopleshould stifle their feelings, directly comparing that notion to the...
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04/28/2009
The Pageant Driven Life
Wow, the social conservatives are totally crushing hard on Miss California. In fact, in the eyes of the American Family Association's Tim Wildmon, Carrie Prejean has surpassed Rick Warren on the hierarchy of anti-gay heroes: What I was most impressed...
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04/14/2009
A Sandy take on Warren's rocky week
At this point, it's safe to say that the entire "pro-family" movement is pissed at Rick Warren. This latest slam comes from longtime anti-gay activist Sandy Rios: "On moral issues I come out very clear," declared Warren when speaking in...
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04/13/2009
Rick: Genuinely sick or characteristically slick?
What does one do to cap off a week in which they go on a national TV show and blatantly misrepresent their anti-gay positions, then manage to unite gays and anti-gays, both of whom are shocked that such a prominent...
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04/10/2009
Stick it to Rick: Warren losing evangelicals as fast as he lost gays
Another day, another anti-gay evangelical coming out against Rick Warren. This time it's Peter LaBarbera: Rick Warren-Larry King Interview Transcript — Saddleback Pastor ‘Apologizes’ for Prop 8 Role [AFT] ROCK ------ A pastor who wants to have it both ways...
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04/09/2009
Warrin' with Rick: More of his fellow anti-gays say 'WTF?'
Because of his disingenuous attempts to save face on Prop 8, even more evangelicals are coming out against Rick Warren. This from One News Now: Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., with the High Impact Leadership Coalition says he was very disappointed...
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04/08/2009
Rick tricks no one
HA! It seems it's not just the LGBT community that's pissed with Rick Warren for lying to Larry King about his Prop 8 support. The "yes on 8" crowd also knows full well that Pastor Warren was one of their...
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04/07/2009
Video: Rick Warren is bearing false witness. Period.
Wanna get annoyed all over again? Well listen to the first ten minutes of this: Embedded video from CNN Video Lest anyone forget: "No, I don't dislike gays. I just don't think they should 'act on' their truths, even if...
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01/30/2009
Well if you wanna belabor this, Rick...
In a post he just put up on his "News and Views" blog, Rick Warren makes the following postscript: News & View 1/30/2009 [Rick Warren's blog] A notation to which we reply: Uhm, no. Of course it wasn't thought of...
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01/20/2009
Video: The bitter with the sweet
It was inappropriate. It was a mistake. His words cannot help but ring hollow to millions of people. But for closure, here it is: (NBC's feed) We're glad that we stood our ground on this. We're glad that it's over....
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01/13/2009
'All those angry people who are attacking me'
What's Rick Warren's takeaway from the past month of scrutiny? (1) That bloggers and the media are mean "attackers" (2) That the anger over his anti-gays is perfectly okay because it's led many others to be "saved" This from a...
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01/08/2009
Video: Rachel getting (upset about he who is against gays getting) married
We've long known that Anne Hathaway is a friend and an ally. Now we're happy to learn that she understands the the slap-in-the-face-edness of the Rick Warren fiasco: Somewhere Rick Warren is hugging his Princess Diaries DVD and weeping. Hathaway...
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01/05/2009
Audio: Mel asks you to 'Go on believe her when she tells you nothing's wrong'
Melissa Etheridge is still defending the Rick Warren fiasco, accepting the line about the ceremonial invite being a matter of political bridge-building. This snippet comes from the January 3rd edition of NPR's "All Things Considered" (other speaker is NPR's Guy...
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12/29/2008
Knight and Gay
This from One News Now: Bob Knight, former director of the Culture and Media Institute, says Cloud and other homosexual activists are hurting themselves with their angry reaction to Obama's choice of Rick Warren to pray at the Inauguration. "They...
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12/28/2008
MEET THE dePRESSing failure to see the gravity of this matter
Axelrod defends the Warren fiasco: The "important point" is that you have "a conservative evangelical pastor who's coming to participate in the inauguration of a progressive president"? In one emphatic word: NO!! The important point is the progressive president chose...
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12/26/2008
G.Dubya.B criticizes transition from same
You've heard writers, politicos, and pundits weigh in on the Rick Warren fiasco. So by now you're surely asking yourself the one remaining question: What does G.W. Bailey, the guy who played Cpt. Harris in the Police Academy movies, think...
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12/24/2008
Video: Neither controversy nor Maddow are going away
We're not backing off the Rick Warren thing. Neither is Rachel. This from last night's show: Rachel with your wit so bright, won't you guide a bigotry-slaying tonight? Rick Warren: The Wrong Choice [MSNBC] **Our complete Rick Warren archive
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12/23/2008
Development: Saddleback site further dirtied, not scrubbed
Well, it turns out that Saddleback Church has NOT removed the part of their website that says gays can't be members. At least not for good. It turns out that they are simply in the process of converting the text...
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Damage control: Rick gets thrifty
The Rick Warren "I'm not anti-gay" revisionist tour continues. This from TMZ: Rick Warren, the pastor who will deliver the invocation next month for Barack Obama, apparently is doing a little image-adjusting in West Hollywood. We got this pic, taken...
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Video: The more he talks, the more he offends
Rick has made some new videos. And surprise, surprise -- "blame the media" is among his new games: UN-REAL! In living video, he both compared homosexuality to pedophilia/incest/polygamy and said that gays should not act on their "desires," and yet...
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12/22/2008
Mel, we adore you. But...
This morning we showed you a Rick Warren-defending piece that Tammy Lynn Michaels has posted to her personal blog. Well now her wife, Melissa Etheridge, has done the same. Unfortunately, giving Rick Warren an undeserved pass seems to be the...
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Video: The warrin' is annoying but we're winning this battle
The Rick Warren fiasco is a "pseudo controversy"? It was "fabricated by the anti-religious left"? Rick Warren is not a divisive political figure? There is no data to support the claim that Rick Warren is divisive? Rick Warren is on...
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But we (and Google cache) know it was there, Rick
You know how among the many other points surrounding the Rick Warren fiasco, we've been telling you that the Saddleback Church website explicitly singles out gays as being unworthy of church membership? Yea, well check out this very telling, very...
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Biden on board: Veep hands Rick his latest undeserved pass
This from tonight's "Larry King Live": KING: There has been much controversy over the selection of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inaugural. He's been a guest on this show an awful lot, and he supported California's Proposition...
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GLAAD, paging GLAAD. Come in, GLAAD. We need some media training on this one, STAT!
Wanna see what we gays should NOT be saying in terms of both Rick Warren and the marriage fight? Well read this post, which Melissa Etheridge's wife, Tammy Lynn Michaels, has posted to her blog. It's seriously jaw-dropping: *** the...
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12/21/2008
Wherein the AP does us a great disservice
The following comes from a new AP story, discussing Rick Warren's "defense" of his indefensible inauguration invite. Check it out and then we'll get back to you: (underlining is our own) LONG BEACH, Calif. – Under fire for opposing gay...
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12/19/2008
Cartoon: Abusive relationships
This from "Troy" cartoonist Michael Derry: Yea. F***ing ouch. **SOURCE: 365Gay **OUR COMPLETE RICK WARREN ARCHIVE: Rick Warren [G-A-Y]
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'Oh, I do': The comparison couldn't get much more direct!
It's one thing if you choose to overlook the messages that Rick Warren has sent to the LGBT community. However, it's quite another when you ignore what was actually said in order to make point. We say this after reading...
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He excludes us from his club -- yet we're asked to accept him into ours?!
This from the website of Rick Warren's home church: "Because membership in a church is an outgrowth of accepting the Lordship and leadership of Jesus in one’s life, someone unwilling to repent of their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted...
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Cheap 'Suitt': VA pastor calls us whiners
We're not sure why this email, with the subject "Joe Solmonese," was sent to us rather than to HRC. But for whatever reason, Pastor Marvin Suitt of Forest Virginia's Living Word Baptist Church has felt the need to write to...
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'Change' Rick Warren can believe in
It keeps getting worse: "Most people probably don’t know this, but Warren’s Saddleback Church has a Friday night program called Celebrate Recovery. On the whole the program is modeled after the twelve steps, albeit with an evangelical supplement to it....
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Video: We get hurt, we get pissed, we get mad-dow
Maddow: A little too much of a pass from Gavin, if you ask us. Maybe when he hears that Rick Warren doesn't want gays to exist in any active form, then he'll stand up a little more staunchly in opposition...
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Wait, wasn't this supposed to be our happy time?
Wondering how you should be feeling about the Rick Warren fiasco? Well just consider who's delighted about the invite: FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL'S TONY PERKINS: On a West Wing and a Prayer President-elect Obama has asked the Reverend Rick Warren, pastor...
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Video: 'Delayed gratification'
OMG -- Rick Warren's views are even worse than we thought! Check out this, another clip from Ann Curry's upcoming interview: So once again, he's comparing our love to multiple-partner love (which he apparently feels is in his DNA). And...
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12/18/2008
Video: Ann, it's okay to call a certifiable lie a lie
Here's another clip in which Ann Curry talks about her upcoming Rick Warren interview: Okay, so first off: Anchor Contessa Brewer did a fantastic job setting this up. Rarely do we hear someone in the MSM so clearly separate civil...
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Video: The most offensive laugh ever heard
Ann Curry has interviewed Rick Warren for a "Dateline" episode that will air tomorrow night. Here's a snippet: Our marriages inflict pain on people. Our cries against intolerance are laugh out loud funny. Water and donuts prove that one is...
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Video: Elisabeth again speaks about that which she does not fully understand
Oh, Hasselbeck: Here's the thing, Liz: Barack Obama has not compared loving gay couples to incestuous, polygamous, paedophilic bonds. Obama/Biden did not campaign in favor of state-level marriage bans -- they are actually OPPOSED to these. Barack Obama is not...
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Forgive us if we don't stay on message
Here are a list of talking points that the Obama inaugural committee have asked folks to disseminate in regards to the Rick Warren fiasco (in bold), followed by our own counterpoints regarding why these justifications are insufficient (in italics). Enjoy:...
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Accepting gays and comparing them to incestuous couples: An irreconcilable difference
A reader sent us an emailing challenging us on the video wherein Obama's invited VIP, Pastor Rick Warren, compares same-sex unions to polygamy, pedophilia, and incest. In case you haven't seen said video, here, let us show it to you...
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Video: Hilary enters Warren war; no mainstream mediation achieved
Hilary Rosen gets it. Hilary Rosen gives it: CNN's Debate on Pastor Rick Warren Pick for Obama Inauguration [YouTube] **EARLIER: Why the Warren thing matters [G-A-Y] McClurkin 2.0? [G-A-Y]
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12/17/2008
Why the Warren thing matters
By now you've surely heard that Team Obama has chosen Rick Warren, a man who just this month directly compared gay couples to incestuous and paedophilic duos, to give the invocation at January's inauguration. But have you taken the time...
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McClurkin 2.0?
Here is mega-pastor Rick Warren directly comparing same-sex marriage to both incestuous and paedophilic marriage, passing off the incredibly flawed conservative talking point that civil marriage equality will lead pastors to be prosecuted for "hate speech," and justifying why he...
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