Mike Tidmus

The eminently readable Sarah Posner has her latest Fundamentalist column up at The American Prospect. In this excerpt she looks at what Michael Elliott regards as Rick Warren’s effort to compare himself to civil rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. Rick Warren: From Ebenezer to Inauguration. Is He Like King? On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Rick [...]

Livid? (Video: The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, via YouTube) So here’s an idea, Mr Obama: Scrap mega-preacher Rick Warren’s slated invocation during your Inauguration, which would have been broadcast to billions and billions and billions around the world; send the pop-pastor into a luxuriously-appointed recording studio; then broadcast the resulting video of Warren’s in-God-we-trust bit on [...]

Edith Kelman of Atlanta holds signs along with other protesters gathered outside of Ebenezer Baptist Church to protest the Rev. Rick Warren speaking during the annual King Day commemorative service at Ebenezer (Photo: Jessica McGowan/AJC) Not surprisingly, pop-pastor Rick Warren’s Martin Luther King, Jr Day appearance at King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church has drawn protests.  From [...]

(graphic: Dan Wasserman, the Boston Globe, shamelessly swiped from Joe.My.God.) Tony Barboza writing in the Los Angeles Times this morning notes that yesterday about 100 demonstrators, outraged by President-Elect Obama’s selection of Rick Warren to handle the invocation at Obama’s inauguration took their grievance, in the form of a peaceful protest, to the pop-pastor’s home [...]

Had you tuned in to HBO’s coverage of the pre-Inaugural concert, with its star studded line up at the Lincoln Memorial, hoping to catch a glimpse of Episcopal Bishop V Gene Robinson, who was hand-picked by President-Elect Barack Obama to deliver the event’s invocation, you were sorely disappointed. There was no gay bishop. After a [...]

Banding Together to get the Lesbian and Gay Bands of America to President-Elect Obama’s historic inauguration (Graphic: mine) … because we bloggers are banding together to send the Lesbian and Gay Bands of America to Washington DC for the historic inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama. But Rick Warren’s gonna be there … Ha! As Lesbian and Gay [...]

Rick Warren Urges Followers To Emulate Hitler Youth  (Video: The New Apostolic Research Team, via YouTube) Jim Burroway, of Box Turtle Bulletin, has uncovered this delightful little video of pop-pastor Rick Warren enjoying a Leni Riefenstahl-worthy moment, which might explain Dan Savage’s dedication of another video gem at his blog.

This is ironic because, when the President-Elect picked pop-pastor Rick Warren to handle the in-God-we-trust bit at the inauguration, I was outraged — as you might have gathered if you’ve been reading along. At the time, I said to a friend that Mr Obama could have made a wiser and less divisive choice … [several expletives deleted] … [...]

I have to admit that I nearly fell on the floor last week when the divine Ms Maddow described the power struggle for leadership of the Republican National Committee as “a sack full of angry squirrels” going at it. Sarah Posner, writing for the American Prospect in her regular column, The Fundamentalist, has some thoughts on the [...]

By now everyone knows that Rick Warren has actually eaten dinner with actual homosexuals in their actual homosexual homes. Tina Reynolds, of Sacramento’s Equality Action Now, thinks the pop pastor should make a habit of breaking bread with us queer folk. We learn, via Dan Aiello writing in the Bay Area Reporter, that Equality Action [...]

Our friends at Queers United point to an excellent idea: You can put the loathsome pop-pastor Rick Warren, who Obama foolishly chose to do the whole in-god-we-trust-shit part of his inauguration, to work for our queer rights. From Queers United: Rick Warren is a homophobic, anti-equality preacher who will be delivering a prayer at the inauguration ceremony for [...]

Here are two more must-reads on the publicity-driven pop-pastor. Nobody turns a phrase or twists a knife quite like Christopher Hitchens. In a piece at Slate called Shame on You, Rick Warren, Hitchens all but embalms Warren for, among other things, his staged Road to Damascus moment: And a shame, too, that on Inauguration Day we [...]

California marriage equality activist Fred Karger on Fox Business News  (Video: Fox News, via YouTube) Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger was recently interviewed by Stuart Varney on Fox Business Network. The subjects: Post-Prop 8 boycotts, the Mormon Church, California’s largest contributor to Yes on Prop 8, Howard Ahmanson ($1.4 million), and other topics. Fox host [...]

Rachel Maddow levels the pop-pastor again (Video: MSNBC, via YouTube) The porcine prevaricator persists in denying what the evidence clearly shows he said, but the latest wrinkle in Warren’s flab is that, if he’s called on his lies, his detractors must be Christophobic and guilty of hate-speech for calling Warren on his shit.

Rachel Maddow nails Warren/Obama (Video: MSNBC, via YouTube)