Soften your raging homophobia unto me!
If you're a raging conservative homophobe looking for a prime time interview spot, all you've got to do these days is suddenly pretend to be only a mild conservative homophobe, and you've got an audience on on Larry King Live.
First, noted conservative homophobe Rick Warren appeared on King's show to [...]
Last week, sex columnist extraordinaire Dan Savage gave Rick Warren the Rick Santorum treatment by turning his life into a code-word for a sex act. "Saddlebacking," named after Warren's California Saddleback Church, will henceforth signify "the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities." (Santorum, incidentally, means "The [...]
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1. New Adams Morgan Bar Loves the Ladies; Dudes, Not So Much, an examination of gender discrimination targeted against douchebags!
2. Rick Warren Don't Make No Sense, a nonsensical tired against Rick Warren's nonsensical invocation!
3. The Great Inaugural After-Party, dudes talking about beer and sex, for the President!
4. [...]
Oh, hey, slow news day.
* Now, homos, Mormons, baby-killing women, porno freaks, Jesus mockers, and drunks have "sports nuts" to contend with for eternal damnation (above).
* Now, get out of my city please.
* Now, I get to not hear Rick Warren talk about anything for a very long time, perhaps ever.
* Now, there's only one [...]
I know everyone thinks Rick Warren is offensive because he hates women and gay people, but I think he proved today that the true offensive trick up his sleeve is that he doesn't make any goddamned (apologies) sense. Did that invocation make sense to anyone else? I'm waiting on the full transcript, and I'm not [...]
Frank Rich's column in Saturday's New York Times was an indictment of Barack Obama's mixed message on gay rights in light of the Rick Warren pick (side-note: totally over this). But the headline's funnier out of context:
You’re Likable Enough, Gay People
The title is a nod to Obama's primary season declaration that "You're likable enough, Hillary." [...]
* Slate's XX Factor hashes it out over Rick Warren. Sara Mosley hates Warren, but admits that "engagement with the other side" sometimes "makes everyone a little unhappy and uncomfortable." Noreen Malone thinks Obama's "selling out." Hannah Rosin thinks this is all "liberal group think" that amounts to "pretending evangelicals don't exist"—and calls to let [...]
