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MSNBC’s Maddow looks into Emmer’s affiliation with anti-gay ministry

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.10.10 | 8:38 am

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow looked at Minnesota’s gubernatorial primary matchups last night, giving special emphasis to GOP-endorsed candidate Tom Emmer and his support for the Christian ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide. The story should be familiar to…

MoveOn.org hits Target over gift to Emmer-backing PAC

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.02.10 | 2:25 pm

MoveOn.org, the national progressive advocacy group, is jumping on the Target bandwagon: Like the Human Rights Campaign and others, it’s launched a campaign critical of Target Stores for donating $150,000 to MN Forward, a right-leaning…

Human Rights Campaign calls out Target, Best Buy over gift to MN Forward, Emmer’s ties to anti-gay ministry

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.02.10 | 2:12 pm

Based in part on reporting by the Minnesota Independent, the Human Rights Campaign has launched a petition and open letter calling on big box stores Target and Best Buy to give $250,000 — the amount the Minnesota-headquartered…

You Can Run helps drive author Anne Rice from Christianity

By Paul Schmelzer | 07.30.10 | 8:14 am

Anne Rice, author of novels like “Interview With a Vampire” and a memoir about her conversion from Catholicism to atheism and back again, announced Wednesday that she’s leaving the church. “I quit being a Christian. I’m out,” she…

Birkey to discuss You Can Run on Michigan radio

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.10.10 | 11:27 am

Minnesota Independent reporter Andy Birkey will discuss his award-winning coverage of the Christian ministry/hard-rock band You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Thursday evening on “Declaring Independence,” the Grand Rapids, Mich., radio show hosted by Michigan…

Bradlee Dean says Minnesota Independent ‘twisted’ his words

By Andy Birkey | 06.04.10 | 7:00 am

Bradlee Dean of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., says that the Minnesota Independent has “twisted” and “falsified” his statement on his AM 1280 radio show that suggested that Muslim countries that call for the execution

Living Word Christian Center, CAIR issue statements on Bradlee Dean

By Andy Birkey | 06.03.10 | 2:56 pm

Living Word Christian Center (LWCC), a Brooklyn Park megachurch, released a statement following the controversy over  statements made by Bradlee Dean, front man of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, Intl., Inc. In recent weeks, Dean has spoken in…

Ex-gay group condemns Bradlee Dean’s comment on executing gays

By Andy Birkey | 06.02.10 | 9:28 am

Randy Thomas, executive vice president of Exodus International, a group that advocates “freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ,” condemned the words of hard rock ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., and its frontman…

Hard rock ministry says jailing gays is ‘right’ thing to do

By Andy Birkey | 06.01.10 | 4:01 pm

The leaders of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., a hard rock ministry that holds Christian assemblies in public schools around the Midwest, said that locking up gays and lesbians in prison is the “right”…

Emmer on anti-gay hard rock ministry: ‘These are nice people’

By Andy Birkey | 05.26.10 | 8:46 am

The Republican-endorsed candidate for governor, Tom Emmer, told the Star Tribune’s Rachel Stassen-Berger that You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Intl., Inc., “are nice people.” You Can Run is a ministry that brings it’s hard rock evangelism