Editor's note: Most Creative Loafing readers already know and love Lorna Bracewell. Luckily, for us, the St. Pete-based singer, guitarist and songwriter has agreed to be a contributor to our music blog. She will be blogging about everything from her adventures on the road as a musician and speaker to politics, religion and any other topics that raises people's blood pressure. Lorna has released six albums on her own label Braced Well Records and has toured throughout the United States and Europe. In addition to her musical performances, Lorna lectures at colleges and universities nationwide on topics ranging from folk music and the civil rights movement to constitutional law. To bring Lorna to your campus, coffee shop, community event or house concert, hit her up at lornabracewell.com.
I received an email forward yesterday warning me about an imminent Federal Communications Commission hearing on something called "RM-2493," a petition that would "pave the way to stop the reading of the gospel of our Lord and Savior on the airwaves of America." (If you're baffled as to why an agnostic, folk-singing lesbian such as me is receiving email forwards such as this you should definitely come spend Thanksgiving with the Bracewells this year!) Now, I adopt a generally skeptical attitude toward all email forwards so, before raising the alarm to all of my First Amendment-cherishing, agnostic, folk-singing, lesbian friends, I subjected this email to my standard vetting procedure: Snopes.com, an online urban legend encyclopedia.
This article appears in Nov 12-18, 2008.