Tag Archives: The Bible and Gay Marriage

Geoffrey R. Stone: Democracy, Religion and Proposition 8

By PFLAG Boulder County | January 1, 2009

How can a free society reconcile the often competing values of democracy, religious liberty and the separation of church and state? This challenge was vividly illustrated by the recent controversy over California’s Proposition 8, which forbade same-sex marriage.
In a democracy, the majority of citizens ordinarily may enact whatever laws they want. Some laws, however, are [...]

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Op-Ed Columnist – You’re Likable Enough, Gay People

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 28, 2008

In his Sunday editorial for the New York Times, Op-Ed columnist Frank Rich analyzes Obama’s choice of Rick Warren, pastor of the conservative evangelical Saddleback Church, to deliver the invocation at the Presidential inauguration. Following is an excerpt from the editorial, with a link to the entire article. 
In his first press conference after his re-election [...]

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E. J. Dionne Jr. – Obama’s Invitation to Warren Is a Risk Worth Taking – washingtonpost.com

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 23, 2008

By inviting Pastor Rick Warren to give the inaugural invocation, President-elect Barack Obama has alienated some of his friends on the left. By accepting, Warren has enraged some of his allies on the right.

Obama and Warren have helped each other in the past, and both know exactly what they’re doing.
If you’re on the left, how [...]

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Richard Cohen – Obama’s Choice of Rick Warren Ruined a Party

By PFLAG Boulder County | December 23, 2008

Warren On? Party Off. 
By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Not that he was planning to attend, but Barack Obama should know that my sister’s inauguration night party — the one for which she was preparing Obama Punch — has been canceled. The notice went out over the weekend, by e-mail and word of mouth, that Obama’s [...]

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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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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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