Melissa Etheridge: Shut Up and Sing
Filed by: Michael Crawford
January 5, 2009 3:30 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/01/melissa_etheridge_shut_up_and_sing.php

I know it is not my place to tell Melissa Etheridge when she can and cannot speak, but when she continues to make excuses for Rick Warren's anti-gay bigotry, I have to say to her: shut up and sing.

Here is Melissa's latest bit of political commentary on the Rick Warren controversy from a recent interview with NPR:

Transcript after the jump...

    I believe I understand Obama's choice here. I believe that Barack Obama wants to be the President of the entire United States. Pastor Rick Warren reached out to him, brought him into his church during the campaign, which outraged many members of his church. Yet he reaches across and I think this is Obama reaching back and going, 'I think we can disagree on things, yet we can still all move forward. We need to get past our differences.'

At first I was appalled at Obama's decision. Now, I think it was the right decision. I don't believe in what Rick Warren says about Transexuals and Homosexuals but if we don't have dialogue then we will never come together as humans. Even in the LGBTQ community, there are differences of opinions. We need to conquer with love and compassion, not with being the strong silent type with a big stick.

I have been trying to explain this point also. Being polarized is not going to help anyone.

Nor is basically using against Melissa what the right wing creeps said to the Dixie Chics going to win you any new support.