Tag Archives: Marriage Equality

National Religious Leadership Roundtable responds to selection of Rick Warren to give invocation at inauguration | National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 20, 2008

National Religious Leadership Roundtable responds to selection of Rick Warren to give invocation at inauguration | National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Statement by the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel
National Religious Leadership Roundtable
“As a Christian pastor and a lesbian, I am deeply troubled by President-elect Obama’s choice of Pastor Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration. Pastor Warren [...]

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Top Lawyer Urges Voiding California Proposition 8 – NYTimes.com

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 19, 2008

Top Lawyer Urges Voiding California Proposition 8 – NYTimes.com.
California’s attorney general, former Governor Jerry Brown, said on Friday “that the measure was constitutionally indefensible and should be overturned.” He continued: “Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification.” According to the New York [...]

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An Open Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama on the Selection of Rick Warren for Inauguration Invocation

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 19, 2008

Earlier today, PFLAG National President John R. Cepek, Vice President Rabbi David Horowitz, and executive director Jody Huckaby sent the following letter to President-Elect Obama regarding his selection of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the January 20 inaugural in Washington, D.C. 

Dear President-Elect Obama:
As people of faith, and as friends and family members of lesbian, [...]

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Not a Disagreement among Friends … NCLR on Rick Warren

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 19, 2008

From Kate Kendell, at NCLR
Even as we endured the passage of Prop 8 and three other anti-gay measures on November 4, we took comfort in the near end of the most treacherous administration in recent history and the historic election of a man who seemed to live and breathe a genuine commitment to equality, fair [...]

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Obama Selects California Evangelist for Invocation at His Inauguration

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 18, 2008

Obama Selects California Evangelist for Invocation at His Inauguration – NYTimes.com.
President-elect Barack Obama has selected Rick Warren, pastor of the conservative Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Described by the New York Times as “an outspoken opponent of abortion and same-sex marriage,” Warren’s selection “set off a round [...]

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Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham on Gay Marriage

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 17, 2008

The Editor’s Desk | Newsweek Editor’s Letter
From Newsweek.com:
On the campus of Wheaton College in Illinois last Wednesday, in another of the seemingly endless announcements of splintering and schism in the Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan and other leaders of the conservative forces of reaction to the ecclesiastical and cultural acceptance of homosexuality declared [...]

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