Rick Warren to help raise money for GLBT awareness?

January 3, 12:30 PMAtheism ExaminerTrina Hoaks

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Regardless of whether or not he is aware of it, Rick Warren will be helping to raise money to support Driving Equality. Driving Equality is the project of Chris Mason of Massachusetts, which according to Chris is “a 100-day, 16,000-mile road-trip through all of the lower 48 states to examine LGBT equality and discrimination throughout the nation.” His intention is to create a documentary when his road trip is finished.

He has come up with a creative way to fund his project, which he calls the Rick-a-thon. He is accepting non-tax-deductible donations based on the amount of time Rick Warren speaks during the inauguration. If there is going to be religion in the inauguration, which many people see as unconstitutional, then it may as well be used for something positive, which is the equal rights of all of America’s.

Hemant Mehta of the Friendly Atheist Web site has suggested that this type of thing would be good for the Secular Coalition of America to capitalize on as well. He said:

...this time, the pledges are made for every second Warren or Rev. Joseph Lowery deliver public prayers.
The money goes to the SCA to prevent further entanglement of church and state.
 

Brilliant!