Melissa Etheridge

By Greg Hernandez So Etheridge went on NPR again today and again defended Barack Obama's choice of homophobic pastor Rick Warren to say the innvocation at the inauguration. Towleroad.com has a nice transcript and audio link but the part where Melissa loses me is when interviewer Guy Raz played her the clip o...

By Greg Hernandez McCarthy added that it's also time "for President-elect Obama to start acting on the promises he made to the LGBT community during his campaign so that he doesn't go down in history as another Bill Clinton, a sweet-talking swindler who would throw us under the bus for the sake of political...

By Greg Hernandez This was written by Melissa Etheridge this evening. I have enough respect for her to hear her out on why she decided to engage Rick Warren... I will be attending the inauguration with my family, and with hope in my heart. I know we are headed in the direction of marriage equality and equal protecti...

By Greg Hernandez Warren defends his participation in the inauguration and I fear this whole thing has just given him a bigger head. Etheridge seems to be buying into the entire buildling a bridge thing that Warren says he champions. See video below. That's it for Rick Warren news today unless he graciously de...

By Greg Hernandez It's nice when someone smart and thoughtful like Melissa Etheridge speaks about equal rights for gays but annoying when it is someone like Elisabeth Hasselbeck. On today's episode of "The View," Etheridge said of the passage of Prop. 8 last month: "To have people vote to take away rights is...