[CitizensTruth] Protest in Atlanta: Rick Warren at Ebenezer Baptist!

[Jay Becker]

Hey,
if you know anyone in the
Atlanta area, please forward. The bigot Warren is building on the
platform given him by Obama's invitation to give the inaugural
invocation and now he's speaking at
Ebenezer Baptist, Martin Luther King's church, on MLK Day. This is an outrageous slap in the face (or
worse, really) to the LGBT community, to women, and to all of us that should be
strongly protested. Jay



 
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PROTEST RICK WARREN 

Monday, January 19th, 9AM 

Ebenezer Baptist Church 

(Corner of Auburn Ave. and Jackson Street) 

  

YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance. 

YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule. 

Rick
Warren is a Biblical literalist. Just as some used the Bible to defend
slavery, Rick Warren uses the Bible to promote hate and discrimination
against gays and lesbians. He backed Proposition 8, a California constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages, and equates homosexuality with
 pedophilia and incest. He upholds war and capital punishment while declaring abortion as murder and promotes women’s subservience to men. 

Rick Warren is the keynote speaker for the MLK Day commemoration at Ebenezer, and to deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration.  This is outrageous!  Seeking “common ground” with hateful bigots is unacceptable! As the World Can’t Wait
 Call says, “That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop – you will learn or be forced to accept.” 

www.worldcantwait.org                                                                                         atlanta at worldcantwait.org 

  

The
World Can’t Wait Atlanta is working with many other groups that are
organizing to protest Rick Warren, Atlanta Black LGBT coalition, GLBT
Atl, SPARK Reproductive Justice, Georgia Equality, TILTT and others.  Bring signs, banners, yourself, friends, and pass this on to your list serves and blogs.  Don’t sit at home and scream at your TV, no one can hear you,j oin with others in the streets! 

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Discussion with Sunsara Taylor 

NO “Common Ground” with Bigot Rick Warren 

Sunday, January 18, 3pm-5pm 

  

Revolution Books Outlet Atlanta 

1087 Euclid Ave. (inside the Four Corners Market, in little 5 points) 

Atlanta, GA 

  

The pick of Rick Warren to deliver the keynote speech on MLK Day
has angered many progressive people. Warren was a leading voice in the
fight to take away gay people's right to marry in California, he has
compared abortion to the Nazi Holocaust, and he is a biblical
literalist who denies evolution. Warren’s appearance on MLK Day adds to
the controversy generated by Barack Obama’s invitation to Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration on Tuesday. 

  

“This
whole ‘common ground’ approach just lends legitimacy to and normalizes
Warren's deadly religious bigotry. Standing on this ‘common ground’ is
leading progressive people who genuinely care about women, gays,
science, and AIDS in Africa to capitulate, to give up principle, and to accept things that they never would've accepted from someone like Pat
 Robertson or George Bush.” 


>From Sunsara Taylor’s article in the current issue of Revolution newspaper. 


Read the full article at revcom.us, and come join the discussion on Sunday! 

  

Sunsara Taylor
writes for Revolution newspaper and sits on the Advisory Board of World
Can’t Wait. Her coverage of the rise of Christian fascism has taken her
to defend abortion clinics across the country, and inside the stadiums
of the BattleCry movement who train Christian youth shock troops. She
has had impressive verbal battles with Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity on Fox News
and held many thoughtful interviews with reality-based radio hosts
around the country. Sunsara co-hosts the WBAI (Pacifica) radio program
“Equal Time for Free Thought.” She has recently been on a college
campus tour promoting Bob Avakian’s book Away With All Gods! Unchaining the Mind and Radically Changing the World. 

  




      


      
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