Picard’s Response to Rick Warren

General Politics, Politics 21 January 2009 | 0 Comments

I’m a bit of a Star Trek: TNG nerd so this made me giggle:

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An Apology (Of Sorts) Over Gay Bishop Snub

LGBT, Obama Admin, Politics, Society & World 19 January 2009 | 3 Comments

HBO made it necessary for someone from the Obama side to speak up after the network shifted the blame of the exclusion of openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson from the telecast of the inaugural concert. 
Presidential Inaugural Committee communications director Josh Earnest got to do the speaking (and, yes, I got a mild chuckle out of [...]

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Gay Bishop Omitted from Inaugural Concert Broadcast

LGBT, Obama Admin, Politics, Society & World 19 January 2009 | 4 Comments

Large sections of the progressive community did not take well to Obama’s choice of Pastor Rick Warren for the inaugural invocation. It was then announced that Gene Robinson, an openly gay bishop, would be delivering an opening prayer before the inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial. A far smaller billing than Warren and it read [...]

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Warren Thinks Christians Should Follow the Lead of the Nazis

Obama Admin, Politics 16 January 2009 | 0 Comments

I’m not attending the inauguration (though my thanks to Acallidryas for the invitation to a place to stay if I had gone). Part of the reason I’m glad I’m not attending is Rick Warren. Obama’s choice of Warren for the invocation is not something I (or many other liberals) am going to overlook or forget [...]

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