Rick Warren

Seeing is Believing: Questions about Faith-Based Organizations Involved in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment

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by Kathryn Joyce, RH Reality Check

July 16, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

For many years, faith-based health providers have received enormous sums of money from both state-based and private entities to provide healthcare services. More recently, that healthcare has included treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS. Unfortunately, many of these providers do not provide a full range of preventative care, especially advice on the use of and access to condoms to prevent the spread of HIV. Too few people have questioned whether the faith-based groups’ use of those funds is as effective as it might be. This report raises some of those questions and provides some proposals for how we might move forward towards more transparency.

 

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*UPDATED* Martin Ssempa Responds to Rick Warren on Uganda's Homosexuality Bill

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 19, 2009 - 4:36pm (Print)

In an open letter, Martin Ssempa, the controversial fundamentalist Christian Pastor of Makerere Community Church in Uganda chides Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church for his recent statement on the proposed "anti-gay" law in Uganda.

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Roundup: Rick Warren Claims He's Not "Political"

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

November 30, 2009 - 10:38am (Print)

Rick Warren tells Meet the Press he doesn't take "sides" in political debates; South Korea uses pro-natalist fears to restrict women's access to abortion.

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Globalizing The Culture Wars

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by Amie Newman

November 18, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

A new report, released by Political Research Associates, connects the dots between U.S. conservatives, African churches and a growing homophobia - with frightening results.
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Obama Invites Openly Gay Bishop to Pray at Inaugural Event

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by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

January 12, 2009 - 2:10pm (Print)

I'll see your Pastor Rick Warren and raise you a Bishop Gene Robinson. The high-stakes symbolism of the Obama Inauguration.
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HIV Activists/Gay Men Sentenced in Senegal: The Other Side of Rick Warren's "Humanitarian Issue"

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by Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

January 8, 2009 - 12:09pm (Print)

The distance between Pastor Rick Warren and the sentencing of nine gay HIV activists in Senegal can be measured in inches, not miles. This is a real humanitarian issue Pastor Warren, not a fight to protect the privilege of heterosexual marriage.
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Roundup: Teen Birth Rate Increases in 26 States; Focus on the Family Opposes Daschle Confirmation

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by Emily Douglas

January 7, 2009 - 11:08am (Print)

Dr. Sanjay Gupta Obama's pick for surgeon general; teen birth rate increases in 26 states; Focus on the Family opposes Daschle confirmation; maternity leave healthier for mothers, babies; University of Wisconsin clinic plans to offer second-trimester abortions; Rick Warren's Uganda connections.
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Roundup: Opposition to HHS Rule; Religious Right Leaders Grumble Over Warren's Planned Invocation

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by Emily Douglas

January 6, 2009 - 10:54am (Print)

Reporting on the widespread opposition to HHS rule; religious right leaders grumble over Warren's planned invocation; make mothers vectors for health information; Ariel Levy reviews new and old editions of "Joy of Sex," "Our Bodies, Ourselves."
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Innovative Thinking In The Fight Against Gendered Violence

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by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

January 5, 2009 - 11:07am (Print)

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Back from the break, with an interview with a co-editor of a new anti-rape anthology, evidence that virginity pledges are bad for kids, and concerns about the economic downturn and women's safety.

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Waiting to Exhale: An Advocate Struggles with the Debate Over Warren

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

December 25, 2008 - 12:01pm (Print)

Most of the public debate on Obama’s selection of Rick Warren for the inauguration has centered on his opposition to gay rights, his “good works” on poverty and global AIDS, and Obama’s promise to “disagree without being disagreeable.”  This advocate struggles with “getting to yes.”

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