[OutVoice] Obama invokes Warren flap+"Don't Get Too Comfortable" w/David Rakoff

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Program #1,082 - distributed 12/22/08
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We "Don't Get Too Comfortable" with humorist David Rakoff;
Activists fume over Obama's "clerical" error;
Heterosexual inclusion kills Hungary's partnerships law, Canadian marriage is downgraded to a Swedish civil union, Prop 8 proponents pursue mass annulments, 66 countries sign an unprecedented pro-LGBT U.N. statement, Pride takes a bow in Manila and Hong Kong, and more news

- In "NewsWrap": Hungary's Constitutional Court invalidates the country's registered partnerships law because it is open to heterosexual as well as same-gender couples, while Sweden's highest court refuses to recognize the Canadian marriage of two Church of Sweden priests... both sides of the California Supreme Court challenge to Proposition 8 submit their briefs, including the measure's supporters' argument that some 18,000 same-gender marriages that were held in the state before Prop 8's passage should be nullified... LGBTs and allies surface on Obama's nominations list... 66 countries sign an unprecedented statement presented at the U.N. General Assembly this week calling for the human rights protections of sexual minorities... Manila celebrates Pride for the 14th time, while Hong Kong sees its first closet-busting Pride parade... and other LGBT news from around the world  (written by=2
0GREG GORDON, and reported this week by SHERI LUNN and RICK WATTS).

- Many progressives in the U.S., especially in the LGBT community, are angry at BARACK OBAMA.  The president-elect announced this week that he's invited prominent evangelical minister RICK WARREN to deliver the invocation at his inauguration.  Pastor Warren heads Southern California’s Saddleback Church, and appears to be the successor to religious right leaders Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell on the national stage.  He shares their views opposing reproductive rights and LGBT equality.  There was extensive media coverage of Obama’s controversial pick when the story broke on December 18th, but none topped the insightful perspective of openly lesbian commentator RACHEL MADDOW on her self-titled MSNBC cable TV show  (includes Warren's marriage-related comments during an interview last week with the "Wall Street Journal," and Obama defending his choice).

- Canadian-born essayist DAVID RAKOFF is a pretty funny guy, but he's not just joking.  Like his sometime collaborator David Sedaris, but with a worldview through a very different queer filter, Rakoff gained national attention in the U.S. with a series of public radio pieces.  Many of those were included in his first book, "Fraud."  He recently toured Australia to promote his latest collection, "DON'T GET TOO COMFORTABLE," where he got comfortable - but not too comfortable - with This Way Out's JOHN FRAME in Brisbane.

- Promos for "Pride on Screen 2008" (with STEVE PRIDE) and=2
0the "Audiofile Year in Review" (with JD DOYLE & CHRIS WILSON and produced with CHRISTOPER DAVID TRENTHAM).
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