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Homophobic bigot T. D. Jakes speaks out about his son's gay sex arrest

Radio Left — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:57:09 -0600

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 ...

Obama kisses George W. Bush' ass - again

Radio Left — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:38:32 -0600

Americans United Says President Obama's 'Faith-Based' Program Lacks Adequate Constitutional Safeguards

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Church-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 ...

Bishop Gene Robinson's Prayer

Radio Left — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:14:00 -0600

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 ...

Bishop Gene Robinson on The Daily Show

Radio Left — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:51:27 -0600

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The video Barack Obama doesn't want you to see

Radio Left — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:05:42 -0600

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.