None of these stories are especially Christmas related. It's just Christmas eve (or the fifth night of Hannukah) so I had to put that in the title. Here's your queer news from the fruity reaches of the internets:
- After all the bad (queer) press about Pro-Prop 8 pastor (and author of Purpose Driven Life) Rick Warren being asked to give the invocation at Obama's innauguration, the most anti-gay statements were pulled from his church's site. A later follow up with a spokesperson from the church says they are just revamping the statements (and making them multimedia), not removing them. The uproar over Warren continues, while some see him as someone to work with or even that marriage shouldn't deserve all of our political focus.
- The head of the United States' Episcopal Church calls homosexuality "a gift". Now that's a holiday treat. :)
- Another holiday treat (depending on your tastes): Outsports released their list of best sports(men) pics of 2008.
- Pope Benedict, in a recent commentary, included saving the earth from gays and saving the rainforests as very important things worthy of protection. Bleh.
A gay man is "in the running" to be chosen to be the Secretary of the Navy.- Let's see if the mormon church will put their action where their mouth is: HRC delivered 27,000 letters asking the church to backup its supposed support of gay rights. As a reaction to backlash for Prop 8, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints continually expressed that it was just marriage they were "protecting" and that they were, in fact, behind civil rights for gays.
- In spite of a week delay, 66 nations supported the United Nations declaration to end the criminalization of homosexuality. Israel is a supporter. The United States did not sign on.
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