Etheridge defends her Rick Warren position on NPR...

It could be getting to the point where I feel like telling Melissa Etheridge to stick to singing. But, this is America and everyone is entitled to their opinion even when they don't square with the activist person we thought she was - the woman who coined the "throw us under the bus" line and threatened post-Prop 8 to not pay her taxes since she could no longer get married in California.

So Etheridge went on NPR again today and again defended Barack Obama's choice of homophobic pastor Rick Warren to say the innvocation at the inauguration. Towleroad.com has a nice transcript and audio link but the part where Melissa loses me is when interviewer Guy Raz played her the clip of Warren comparing homosexuality to polygamy and incest and in response Etheridge lamely says:

"Just because he [likens gay marriage to polygamy and incest] does not mean I have to not speak to him, or I don't want to ever be in his company. [...] We had a crazy experience at the Muslim Public Affairs Council Conference. They invited him, and me, not knowing that it would be such a dichotomy at the time. So we met. We spoke. [...] He said he was trying to make the definition of marriage not change -- not necessarily saying that gays are pedophiles or any of that stuff. One can draw whatever they want from that."

Egads. I've had enough.