Melissa Etheridge

We brought you the link to the Little Mrs. blogging about it; now, here is what Melissa Etheridge has directly written about Rick Warren as posted at The Huffington Post.

Melissa Etheridge
Posted December 22, 2008 | 05:10 PM (EST)
The Choice Is Ours Now

“This is a message for my brothers and sisters who have fought so long and so hard for gay rights and liberty.”

Read more after you make the jump to:

http://www.twolesbosgoinatit.com/2008/12/22/melissa-etheridge-writes-abo...

Melissa Etheridge Meets Rick Warren - Hollywood Farm Girl

The spouse of Melissa Etheridge gives us another side of the Rick Warren issue. Apparently Melissa Etheridge met Warren and the lovely spouse of Melissa gives us a few thoughts to ponder.

Here is part of what Tammy Lynn says on her blog “hollywood farm girl”:

Melissa Etheridge visited The View yesterday - to promote her new CD - and took time to provide a history lesson to Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Speaking about California's Proposition 8, Melissa explained the protections built into the Constitution by the U.S. founding fathers: "Actually one of the things that was difficult about this was that - Thomas Jefferson wrote a paper [saying] the rights of the minority should never be voted on by the majority. That should never happen."

Melissa Etheridge knows how it feels to be denied the right to adopt because she’s gay.

“I remembered being a new mom in 1997,” she writes in a blog post at The Daily Beast. “I followed the long trail of red tape to find a way to adopt my children so they could be covered by health insurance, or so I could see them in the hospital in case of some emergency, along with dozens of other reasons.”

Barack Obama's campaign hosted a conference call Friday evening with about 1,200 GLBT supporters. The meeting was an effort to bridge the gap between Clinton and Obama supporters - and allowed the campaign to announce some impressive appointments to the team.

Washington Blade editor Kevin Naff shares his notes from the gathering on the Houston Voice Blog:

In what CBS News called "a milestone" for gay rights, major Presidential Candidates appeared in a forum to provide their views of gay rights.

The candidates faced aggressive questioning on their reluctance to embrace marriage for same-sex couples.

All of the Democratic candidates support a federal ban on anti-gay job discrimination, want to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy barring gays from serving openly in the military and support civil unions that would extend marriage-like rights to same-sex couples.