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Monday, February 16
Homophobic bigot T. D. Jakes speaks out about his son's gay sex arrest
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Radio Left
on Mon 16 Feb 2009 04:57 PM CST
Bishop T.D. Jakes, the homophobic Dallas megachurch pastor whose son was arrested last week after exposing himself and masturbating in front of law enforcement officers during a sex sting in a public park, released a statement over the weekend (which he also read to his congregation) distancing himself from his son's actions by pointing out that Jermaine Jakes is an adult. Bishop Jakes also says that his son is being shown a "restorative grace" indicative of his ministry. According to the Dallas Voice, Jakes has said that he would never hire a sexually active gay person, has spoken out against same-sex marriage, and has called homosexuality a "brokenness." Jermaine Jakes turned himself in to police last Thursday on an indecent exposure charge. ***FULL TEXT of BISHOP TD JAKES STATEMENT regarding SON'S ARREST*** As parents, we occasionally feel that our children do not live up to our highest and best ideals. When they do not, we don't diminish our love for them as recompense for our disapproval. Like our children, we also are not infallible nor do we profess to be. Our now adult son Jermaine is 29, but when he was at home he was a recipient of ... more »
Thursday, February 5
Obama kisses George W. Bush' ass - again
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Radio Left
on Thu 05 Feb 2009 11:38 PM CST
Americans United Says President Obama's 'Faith-Based' Program Lacks Adequate Constitutional SafeguardsThursday, February 5, 2009Church-State Watchdog Group Expresses Disappointment That Bush-Era Rules Allowing Religion-Based Hiring Discrimination Remain In Place Americans United for Separation of Church and State today expressed disappointment that President Barack Obama’s “faith-based” initiative is being rolled out without repeal of Bush-era policies that violate civil rights and civil liberties. Obama issued an executive order today appointing Joshua DuBois as executive director of the White House faith-based office and setting up an advisory council on faith-based and other issues. President George W. Bush’s faith-based initiative allowed religious groups that accept tax funding to engage in discriminatory hiring and celebrated faith-based groups that proselytize. Today’s Obama action leaves the Bush executive orders in place including one that specifically authorizes religion-based employment discrimination in publicly funded programs. “I am very disappointed that President Obama’s faith-based program is being rolled out without barring evangelism and religious discrimination in taxpayer-funded programs,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “It should be obvious that taxpayer-funded religious bias offends our civil rights laws, our Constitution and our shared sense of values.” Questions of religious bias have dogged the faith-based ... more »
Thursday, January 22
Bishop Gene Robinson's Prayer
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Radio Left
on Thu 22 Jan 2009 02:14 PM CST
Bishop Robinson with daughter, Ella, and Obama
Bishop Robinson’s Prayer at the Lincoln Memorial which Obama did not allow to be aired on HBO“O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will… Bless us with tears — tears for a world in which over a billion people exist on less than a dollar a day, where young women in many lands are beaten and raped for wanting an education, and thousands die daily from malnutrition, malaria, and AIDS. Bless this nation with anger — anger at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Bless us with discomfort — at the easy, simplistic answers we've preferred to hear from our politicians, instead of the truth, about ourselves and our world, which we need to face if we are going to rise to the challenges of the future. Bless us with patience — and the knowledge that none of what ails us will be “fixed” anytime soon, and the understanding that our new president is a human being, not a messiah. Bless us with humility — open to understanding that our own needs as a nation must ... |
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Bishop Gene Robinson on The Daily Show
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Radio Left
on Thu 22 Jan 2009 01:51 PM CST
Monday, January 19
The video Barack Obama doesn't want you to see
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Radio Left
on Mon 19 Jan 2009 05:05 AM CST
Barack Obama invited Bishop Gene Robinson to give the invocation at the Lincoln Memorial concert on Sunday. This was supposed to ease the hurt of inviting anti-civil rights activist Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration. Unfortunately, Obama doesn’t honor his commitments and excluded Bishop Robinson from the television coverage of the Lincoln Memorial concert. This betrayal puts the lie to the entire theme of the concert, “We Are One”. A more appropriate name for Obama’s concert would be, “We Are One, Except for the Fags” This video is Bishop Gene Robinson’s invocation at the Lincoln Memorial. It was excluded from the televised program, so watch it at your own risk. Mr. Obama doesn’t want you to see this video. more »
Saturday, January 10
Mildred Loving speaks on the 40th Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia
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Radio Left
on Sat 10 Jan 2009 10:59 PM CST
I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, black or white, young or old, gay or straight seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.
Mildred Loving | Prepared for Delivery on June 12, 2007 The 40th Anniversary of the Loving vs. Virginia Announcement When my late husband, Richard, and I got married in Washington, DC in 1958, it wasn’t to make a political statement or start a fight. We were in love, and we wanted to be married. We didn’t get married in Washington because we wanted to marry there. We did it there because the government wouldn’t allow us to marry back home in Virginia where we grew up, where we met, where we fell in love, and where we wanted to be together and build our family. You see, I am a woman of color and Richard was white, and at that time people believed it was okay to keep us from marrying because of their ideas of who should marry whom. When Richard ... more »
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