CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O’Brien will interview Mitchell Gold, editor of the book “Crisis,” on Jan. 28 as part of Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Visiting Writers Series. The interview will take place at 7 p.m. in the P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the Lenoir-Rhyne campus in Hickory, N.C.
This event is free and open to the public. [...]

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June 10, 2009
Immediate release
Contact: Brent Childers, 828.612.4682
Faith In America would like to remind Miss California Tami Farrell that in her refusal to voice her support for marriage equality for gay Americans she is allowing religion-based bigotry and prejudice to advance against them.
In a Larry King Live segment on June 10, Farrell was asked if she [...]

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Faith In America News Release

Faith In America today challenged Miss California’s pastor to consider the disservice he does to her and others with his embrace and promotion of religion-based bigotry and prejudice toward gay Americans.
According to Carrie Prejean’s pastor, Rev. Miles McPherson, he contacted the Miss USA contestant just hours after she stated she did [...]

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Dear Ms. Prejean,
 On a recent interview with FOXNews.com’s Courtney Friel, you stated that you did not mean to offend anyone when you stated your opposition to gay Americans having the right to marry.
 We believe you are sincere in that answer.
 But we are writing this letter in hopes that you will come to better understand why [...]

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Faith In America today released a videographed open-letter to Rev. Rick Warren during which a civil rights activist says Warren’s pastoral leadership does not honor the late Martin Luther King Jr.
Warren is scheduled to speak Monday at a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration service in Atlanta.
The open-letter, which has been posted on YouTube and the [...]

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Faith In America today released a series of videos and letters that it hopes will help Rev. Rick Warren and other non-accepting people of faith understand the harm caused to gay Americans by religion-based bigotry, prejudice and discrimination.
The project, entitled “Can You Understand the Harm?”, includes videographed open-letter segments from Faith In America Founder Mitchell [...]

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There’s a very good article on the late Mildred Loving that is part of the cover story this week for the New York Times Magazine. The article, published Sunday, Dec. 28, mentions Faith In America’s role in obtaining a marriage equality statement from the late Mildred Loving.
This is a particularly timely mention considering how Mrs. Loving took [...]

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Next Wednesday Americans will wake to a brighter future – those whose presidential candidate won of course.
That will not be the case for gay and lesbian teenagers. Neither Sen. Barack Obama nor Sen. John McCain fully embraced them as equal before God.
Looking back on an election that in one cycle had an African-American running for [...]

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Faith In America today praised Michelle Obama for connecting the historical dots of discrimination and prejudice for Americans in a speech yesterday in New York.
The wife of Democratic Presidential Nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama stated during the speech that African-Americans and gay and lesbian citizens have marched on the journey toward full equality.
“We are all [...]

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A quick roundup of news in California marriage equality reports around the blogosphere:
From Reuters:  Octogenarians Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon took the first vows in San Francisco’s ornate City Hall in a ceremony presided over by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Huffington Post’s Danny Miller:  As I write this, gay and lesbian couples all over California are only [...]

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