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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.

Mildred Loving speaks on the 40th Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia

Radio Left — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:59:57 -0600

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 ...

Condom Burnings and Anti-Gay Witch Hunts: How Rick Warren Is Undermining AIDs Prevention in Africa

Radio Left — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:29:39 -0600

Max Blumenthal | AlterNet

Once hailed by Time magazine as "America's Pastor," California megachurch leader and best-selling author of The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren now finds himself on the defensive. President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Warren to deliver the inaugural prayer has generated intense scrutiny of the pastor's beliefs on social issues, from his vocal support for Proposition 8, a ballot initiative banning same-sex marriage in California, to his comparison of homosexuality to pedophilia, incest and bestiality. Many of Obama's supporters have demanded that he withdraw the invitation.

Warren's defense against charges of intolerance ultimately depends upon his ace card: his heavily publicized crusade against AIDS in Africa. Obama senior adviser David Axelrod cited Warren's work in Africa as one of "the things on which [Obama and Warren] agree" on the Dec. 28 episode of Meet the Press. Warren may be opposed to gay rights and abortion, the thinking goes, but he tells evangelicals it is their God-given duty to battle one of the greatest pandemics in history. What could be wrong with that?

But since the Warren inauguration controversy erupted, the nature of his work against AIDS in Africa has gone unexamined. Warren has not been particularly forthcoming ...