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Politics | Religion

Pope promotes ultra-conservative cleric

Pope Benedict has made a controversial appointment, days after revoking the excommunication of a bishop who is a Holocaust denier. He promoted ultra-conservative cleric Fr Gerhard Maria Wagner to assistant bishop of the Austrian city of Linz. Fr Wagner is notorious for his extreme views - he has accused the popular Harry Potter novels of spreading Satanism, and described Hurricane Katrina as God's punishment for the sinners of New Orleans. He wrote in a parish newsletter that the death and destruction caused by the hurricane in New Orleans was divine retribution for the city's tolerance of homosexuals and permissive sexual attitudes. The future bishop said he was glad that Katrina destroyed not only nightclubs and brothels in New Orleans, but also five of the city's abortion clinics, reports BBC News.

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Religion | Movies

Save Me on DVD

When Mark (Chad Allen), a young gay man addicted to sex and drugs, hits bottom, his concerned brother checks him into a Christian retreat in the New Mexico desert. Run by a compassionate husband and wife team, Gayle (Judith Light) and Ted (Stephen Lang) have made it their life's mission to cure young men of their 'gay affliction' through spiritual guidance. At first, Mark resists, but soon takes the message to heart. As Mark's fellowship with his fellow Ex-Gays grow stronger, however, he finds himself powerfully drawn to Scott (Robert Gant), another young man battling family demons of his own. As their friendship begins to develop into romance, Mark and Scott are forced to confront their true selves. Save Me is out on DVD here. Watch a trailer...

Save Me, starring Judith Light, Chad Allen, Robert Gant, Stephen Lang and directed by Robert Cary is now available on DVD here.

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TV | Religion | Politics

Jon Stewart & Bishop Gene Robinson

The Reverend Gene Robinson was Jon Stewart's guest on The Daily Show Tuesday night. The openly gay Bishop talked about his Washington experience during the Inaugural Ceremonies and also about Rick Warren. Watch a video...

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A Los Angeles TV Refuses Gay Family Ad

Los Angeles KABC-TV has refused to air an ad promoting gay family, during Obamas's inauguration, reports GetToKnowUsFirst.org.

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TV | Religion | Books

Sigourney Weaver in Prayers for Bobby

Sigourney Weaver stars in Prayers for Bobby

Prayers for Bobby is a TV movie based on the book by Leroy F. Aarons. The true story of the life and legacy of Bobby Griffith, a young gay man who killed himself due to his mother's and community's religious intolerance. Mary Griffith (Sigourney Weaver), a devout religious housewife who refuses to accept her teenage son Bobby (Ryan Kelley) being gay, begins a campaign to "cure" him. Until Bobby, in an act of pain and desperation, flings himself off a freeway overpass at the age of 20. Mary questions her faith and the beliefs she has been taught by the Church, and becomes a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth. Watch a trailer...

"Prayers For Bobby is the book kids give their parents when they come out. This will be another way for them to sit down with your family and say, 'I have something to talk to you about. Let's watch a Sigourney Weaver movie,'" said Sigourney Weaver.

Prayers for Bobby starring Sigourney Weaver (picture), Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley (picture), Dan Butler, Austin Nichols, Scott Bailey (picture), Carly Schroeder, Shannon Eagen, directed by Russell Mulcahy, is set to air on January 24, 2009 at 9 pm on the Lifetime network.

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Robinson's invocation not aired on HBO

Openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson's prayer was, surprisingly for many, not aired by HBO, exclusive broadcater of Obama's "We Are One" event at the Licoln Memorial yesterday. No official reason has been given yet. Robinson's prayer is available here and included : "O God of our many understandings, we pray that you will... Bless us with anger – at discrimination, at home and abroad, against refugees and immigrants, women, people of color, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people..." Watch a Christianity Today video filmed from the audience...

UPDATE JAN 20:
It was the presidential inaugural committee, not HBO, who took responsibility for the perceived slight on Monday, issuing a statement saying that it had always intended for the bishop’s invocation to be included in the telecast and that the omission was an oversight, reports the NY Times.. The inaugural committee scheduled the opening event at the Lincoln Memorial, and HBO purchased the exclusive rights to broadcast it. “We regret the error in executing this plan but are gratified that hundreds of thousands of people who gathered on the mall heard his eloquent prayer for our nation that was a fitting start to our event,” Josh Earnest, a spokesman for the inaugural committee, was quoted as saying.

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Politics | Religion | Web

Google takes a stand on gay marriage

Google has filed an amicus brief in several legal challenges to Proposition 8, which make gay marriage illegal in California, reports Vnunet.

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Hanks Calls Prop 8 Supporters Un-American

Tom Hanks talks Prop 8 at HBO's Big Love party: “The truth is this takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop 8 happen. There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American, and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here's what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed, and people can see who's responsible, and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting Constitution, and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So let's have faith in not only the American, but Californian, constitutional process," reports E-online.

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Obama invites Gay Bishop to say Prayer

Openly gay bishop Gene Robinson will deliver a prayer for President-elect Barack Obama in an inauguration event on Sunday that could help defuse controversy over anti-gay pastor Rick Warren who will give the main invocation when the next president takes office on January 20. New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Robinson, at the center of the Anglican church's global battle over homosexuality, will speak on Sunday on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, where civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, writes Reuters. Robinson has called the choice of Warren a slap in the face. But he said on Monday he did not believe Obama invited him in response to the Warren criticism but his prayer would help ease concerns among gay and lesbians. He said he believed the invitation, which came about two weeks ago, was made because he endorsed Obama in May last year. The two also met during the presidential primary. "But this will certainly not go unnoticed in the gay and lesbian community," he said.

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Senegal jails Gays for 8 years

Nine gay men were each jailed for eight years by a court in Senegal, the highest such sentence in a country where homosexuality is outlawed. Homosexual acts are punishable with a maximum sentence of five years in Senegal where 95 percent of the population is Muslim. However, the judge in the case raised the sentence to eight years after taking into account their "membership of a criminal organisation". Most of the men belonged to an association set up to fight HIV/AIDS, reports AfricAsia.com

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