Rick Warren

What the Dodgers' Musical Taste Says About Them

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] Forget phrenology, both the overrated Roots album and the 19th-century pseudo-science. Ignore palmistry, psychotherapy and Rick Warren. The best way to b ... More >>

Saddleback Pastor Rick Warren Temporarily Blinded While Gardening

​Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren temporarily blinded himself on Monday while pruning a firestick plant in his yard. According to reports, Warren was pruning shrubs in the yard of his Southern California home when he wiped his eyes after picking up leaves from a firestick plant. A firesti ... More >>

Queer Town: California Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8

Patrick Range McDonaldAnti-Prop. 8 marcher in Westwood in November, 2008.In an unsurprising ruling, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8 today. As for the fate of approximately 18,000 legally married same sex couples, the supreme court decided they remain valid. Chief Justice Ronald Geo ... More >>

Grumbling Continues Over Obama Bypass of Villaraigosa Aide

Yesterday the National Council of La Raza issued a statement expressing approval of a meeting between President Obama and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, which NCLR president Janet Murguía called "a step in the right direction toward immigration reform." The group's previous statement, issued Mo ... More >>

Queer Town: Villaraigosa Breaks Bread with Rick Warren

A few days after gays and lesbians took part in national Valentine's Day-timed protests  against Proposition 8's November victory, evangelical minister Rick Warren addressed the city's annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown L.A.,  the L.A. Times reporte ... More >>

Know This, America: Watching Obama With a Plate of Grits

The L.A. County Federation of Labor, to which I belong as a union delegate, threw an Inauguration Day viewing breakfast this morning. Like the Fed's annual Labor Day breakfast and other early morning rallies, this one showed some health-consciousness in the chicken sausage cakes and turkey bacon off ... More >>

Queer Town: Gay Bishop's Inauguration Prayer Not Televised

In the big scheme of things, there are more important things on the gay rights plate than who's saying prayers in Washington, D.C. during Inauguration Week. But since we've been following the Rick Warren/Barack Obama controversy, and since these seemingly small things are often red flags for bigger ... More >>

Queer Town: Obama Picks Gene Robinson to Deliver Prayer

In what may be an olive-branch move towards the gay community, President-elect Barack Obama has chosen New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson to deliver a prayer at the opening event of inauguration week, which starts this Sunday in Washington, D.C. Obama's decision may be some kind of counter ... More >>

Queer Town: LAPD Chief Bratton Imperfect "Homo Hero"

Last week, Queerty.com, one of our favorite gay Web sites, chose Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton as its "2008 Homo Hero of the Year," and today the Los Angeles Times picked up the story -- this city's paper of record loves to hand out kudos to the power establishment whenever it ... More >>

Boi From Troy Rose Bowl Headline Beats L.A. Times'

The gay, USC-themed blog known as the Boi from Troy decisively trounced today's L.A. Times when it came to headlining the Trojans' impressive 34-24 Rose Bowl victory over Penn State. "Friday Morning QB: Three-Pete Edition" quipped BFT's blogger, alluding to the third consecutive Rose Bowl title ... More >>

Proposition 8 Gives Rise to New Generation of Gay Leaders

Failure to prevent passage of same-sex-marriage ban shifts political landscape

Obama: Everyman's President?

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Queer Town: The Holiday Education of My Dad

I flew back to New Jersey yesterday and on the drive home from Newark International Airport, my Dad and I talked about the Rick Warren controversy and Prop. 8. My Dad is a political guy, but he still didn't know everything about why people are so upset about the Prop. 8 loss and Obama's choice of Ri ... More >>

Queer Town: Obama Insider Tells Gays to See 'The Big Picture'

Last Friday, Obama insider and spokeswoman Linda Douglass called Frontiers News Editor Karen Ocamb out of the blue, telling the longtime lesbian journalist that gays need to see the "big picture" when it comes to the Rick Warren invitation.  Right: Linda Douglass(Photo: HuffingtonPost)Ocamb wro ... More >>

Queer Town: L.A. Prop. 8 Protest Targets Obama, Warren

This Saturday night President-elect Barack Obama will continue to get an earful he probably never expected.Join the Impact, an Internet-based grassroots group that organizes national protests against Proposition 8, will host candlelight vigils in Los Angeles and other cities to denounce the passage ... More >>

Queer Town: Gays Outraged Over Obama Invite to Rick Warren

President-elect Barack Obama has outraged the gay community by inviting Rick Warren, a highly influential evangelical minister, to deliver the invocation at his January 20, 2009, inauguration. Warren, whose Saddleback Church is located in Lake Forrest, Orange County, is the author of Purpose Driven ... More >>

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