tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58243322011-07-14T20:44:40.368-04:00Social Justice JournalAt King of Peace MCC in St Petersburg, FL we are committed to acting with compassion, honor and respect through modeling and witnessing justice for all people. Through these postings our team tries to offer a balanced view of Christian Social Action opportunities. Your input is welcome.REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.comBlogger2241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1169234068852535072007-01-19T14:12:00.000-05:002007-01-19T14:14:28.880-05:00Seminary to Host Transgender ConferenceBy Shona Crabtree - Religion News Service Friday, January 19, 2007 - Web LinkJanuary 19th, 2007BERKELEY, Calif. (RNS) The first Transgender Religious Summit to be held at a Christian seminary will bring together 50 activists, transgender members of faith communities, academics and religious leaders this weekend (Jan. 19-21) at the Pacific School of Religion REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1169223747336392952007-01-19T11:18:00.000-05:002007-01-19T11:22:27.340-05:00Truth And Justiceby Libby PostI was ten years old when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.I remember the sadness that permeated my house. My parents weren’t well off but they gave money to King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.I remember writing a poem about King which made the rounds in my elementary school eventually making it to a display in the library. I remember thinking REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1169223160158508562007-01-19T11:09:00.001-05:002007-01-19T11:15:23.356-05:00Group Expands To Provide Legal Aid To Low-Income LGBT FamiliesNationwideby 365Gay.com Newscenter StaffPosted: January 18, 2007 - 9:00 pm ET(San Francisco, California) The National Center for Lesbian Rights is launching a new project to provide access to family law services for low-income same-sex parent families.NCLR already has a track record representing same-sex couples in legal battles for REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164999260714019082006-12-01T13:51:00.000-05:002006-12-01T13:54:20.946-05:00In Conservative Chile, a Push for ChangeGays and Others Grow Bolder in Their Challenge to Nation's Cultural ArbitersBy Monte ReelWashington Post Foreign ServiceThursday, November 30, 2006; A14SANTIAGO, Chile -- Emma de Ramón recently bought a condo here. But even before she moved in, she said, everyone in the building knew one fact about her: She's gay.De Ramón and her partner, Karen Atala, a REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164998839830066952006-12-01T13:35:00.000-05:002006-12-01T13:47:20.276-05:00How Corporate America fell in love with gays and lesbians. It's a movement.By Marc Gunther, Fortune senior writerNovember 30 2006: 3:41 PM EST(Fortune Magazine) -- Business is booming at Raytheon (Charts), the $22-billion-a-year defense contractor that sells Tomahawk cruise missiles, laser-vision goggles and advanced radar systems to the Pentagon. This, improbably, is good news for the gay-rightsREV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164997879366016372006-12-01T13:27:00.000-05:002006-12-01T13:31:19.386-05:00Ruling Lets Women Share Rights Custody FightBy ADAM LIPTAKLisa Miller and Janet Jenkins had a child while joined in a same-sex civil union in Vermont.The breakup of their relationship, and what it means for their daughter, Isabella, has for years been a source of tension between the Vermont courts, which recognize both women as Isabella’s mothers, and a Virginia judge who granted sole custody to REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164997540330514132006-12-01T13:23:00.000-05:002006-12-01T13:25:40.346-05:00Christian groups assail video gameBy Jeff Brumley - Florida Times-UnionFriday, December 01, 2006 - Web LinkNovember 30, 2006Shoppers should reject the Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game and the false theology behind the best-selling books that inspired it, a coalition of liberal Christian groups, including one in Jacksonville, said Tuesday.The Christian Alliance for Progress and three other REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164997078678492412006-12-01T13:14:00.000-05:002006-12-01T13:17:58.720-05:00Conservative faith groups urge cuts to AIDS fundBy John Donnelly - Boston GlobeFriday, December 01, 2006 - Web LinkDecember 1, 2006LAKE FOREST, Calif. -- Some leading Christian conservatives, angry over the Global Fund to Fight AIDS's promotion of condoms and its perceived lack of support for faith-based programs, are pushing Congress to cut US support for the AIDS initiative, which was initiatedREV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164137818086414462006-11-21T13:58:00.001-05:002006-11-21T14:36:58.216-05:00Gay Donor or Gay Dad?By JOHN BOWECorrection AppendedR. described himself as “a man in his 40s, voluntarily employed in the arts,” a situation made possible, he explained, by a private family income. His six-foot frame is fit and slim; his eyes, blue and bright. He dresses in a cultured but casual way, an aesthetic captured in his speech, in which phatic blips like “kind of” or “sort of” are REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164135839239897852006-11-21T13:58:00.000-05:002006-11-21T14:04:00.490-05:00Gay Donor or Gay Dad?By JOHN BOWECorrection AppendedR. described himself as “a man in his 40s, voluntarily employed in the arts,” a situation made possible, he explained, by a private family income. His six-foot frame is fit and slim; his eyes, blue and bright. He dresses in a cultured but casual way, an aesthetic captured in his speech, in which phatic blips like “kind of” or “sort of” are REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164047456323594772006-11-20T13:27:00.000-05:002006-11-20T13:30:56.463-05:00New Tactic In Fighting Marriage Initiatives: Opponents Cite Effects On Straight CouplesBy Sonya Geis - Washington PostMonday, November 20, 2006 - Web LinkNovember 20, 2006TUCSON -- A pair of retirees keeping house in a concrete bungalow, with snapshots of their 30 grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the living room and an American flag out front, may not look like the face of gay America.ButREV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164046863865533032006-11-20T13:16:00.000-05:002006-11-20T13:21:03.880-05:00Gays kept separated; church and state notBy Geoffrey R. Stone - Chicago Tribune, Op-edMonday, November 20, 2006 - Web LinkNovember 19, 2006This month, my younger daughter got engaged. She surprised her partner with a proposal, a ring, and a string quartet playing "their" song. As my wife noted, with two daughters we never thought we'd have a daughter-in-law.Mollie has known she is gay for a long REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1164041455163499192006-11-20T11:49:00.000-05:002006-11-20T11:50:55.246-05:00Sexual Orientation Question Angers Christian Conservativesby 365Gay.com Newscenter StaffNovember 19, 2006 - 11:00 am ET(Tallahassee, Florida) Conservative Christian groups have begun an intensive lobbying campaign against a new questionnaire for prospective high-level gubernatorial appointees.The questionnaire, which was prepared by Senate staff, asks the would-be appointees if they have ever REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1163604658575609812006-11-15T10:28:00.000-05:002006-11-15T10:30:59.416-05:00Elton John invited to 'see how gay Christians behave' -14/11/06 The Metropolitan Community Church in East London (MCCEL) has issued an invitation to Sir Elton John following his call for religion to be 'banned'.Sir Elton claimed organised religion only worked to chastise homosexuality and convince people it's wrong.He said, "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. I would ban REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162662366199837382006-11-04T12:45:00.000-05:002006-11-04T12:48:07.330-05:00This week we will go to the polls and cast our vote for leaders and policies that will affect our communities and nation. What are three values - as opposed to partisan issues - that will influence how you vote? Who do you represent with your vote - yourself and your family only? Or do you also vote based on the needs of the poor and disadvantaged in your community? In what ways can we hold our REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162492751397055252006-11-02T13:38:00.000-05:002006-11-02T13:39:11.413-05:00Liberal Christian group puts faith to workBy Janet I. Tu - Seattle Times Thursday, November 02, 2006 - Web LinkNovember 2, 2006The war in Iraq. American children living in poverty. Environmental challenges.Saying it's time for people of faith to act on these issues, about 150 local religious leaders and laypeople held a news conference and marched to the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162477915411472052006-11-02T09:28:00.000-05:002006-11-02T09:31:55.426-05:00NAACP Leader Denounces Anti-Gay Amendmentby 365Gay.com Newscenter StaffNovember 1, 2006 - 1:00 pm ET(Richmond, Virginia) National NAACP chair Julian Bond has joined the growing number of notables opposing amending the Virginia constitution to ban same-sex marriage.The measure also would nix civil unions and likely void domestic partner benefits in the state."I'd always thought Virginia was for REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162333151298795202006-10-31T17:14:00.000-05:002006-10-31T17:19:11.316-05:00Gay Cruises Are on the Seas and in the MainstreamBy MICHELLE HIGGINSPublished: October 29, 2006NEXT Memorial Day weekend, Cunard’s behemoth liner the Queen Mary 2 will depart for a routine six-day Atlantic crossing from New York to Southampton, England, with the usual white-glove service, decadent cuisine and formal evening wear after sundown. The difference this time: practically all the guests REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162332654103276002006-10-31T17:05:00.000-05:002006-10-31T17:10:54.706-05:00Mainstream media avoids Crist gay angle Local editors and journalism experts disagree on ethics of storyBy PHIL LAPADULA Friday, October 27, 2006It may be the loudest “whisper campaign” in Florida history. The internet blogs have been blazing for months with unverified rumors that Charlie Crist, the state’s attorney general and Republican candidate for governor, is gay.Crist has been asked if he REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162305704886303882006-10-31T09:40:00.000-05:002006-10-31T09:41:44.903-05:00Gay Couple Refuses To Pay Taxes Until Australia Recognizes Same-Sex Marriageby 365Gay.com Newscenter StaffOctober 30, 2006 - 9:00 pm ET(Sydney, Australia) A Sydney same-sex couple is refusing to file tax returns until the government allows them to submit a joint return as a married couple.Australian Marriage Equality said the couple was legally married overseas and in past years had been allowed REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162257417490657282006-10-30T18:21:00.000-05:002006-10-30T20:16:57.586-05:00Gay Mega Church Joins Mainstream Denominationby 365Gay.com Newscenter StaffOctober 29, 2006 - 4:00 pm ET(Dallas, Texas) The Cathedral of Hope, regarded as the world's largest gay church, has joined the United Church of Christ.In a vote taken Saturday, Oct. 28, by the denomination's North Texas Association, the church was overwhelmingly accepted as a member church.A special service of installationREV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162241123830052952006-10-30T15:42:00.000-05:002006-10-30T15:45:23.846-05:00SAN FRANCISCO Faith leaders from around world call helping poor a religious value Workplace issues, foreign aid addressed in 2 conferences -Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, Chronicle Religion WriterSaturday, October 28, 2006Religious leaders from around California and the world gathered in San Francisco this week and urged believers to address poverty as a critical issue of faith, focusing separately on REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162240662357142462006-10-30T15:33:00.000-05:002006-10-30T15:38:38.866-05:00Religious right to lose influence no matter who Florida's next governor isBy S.V. Date - Palm Beach PostMonday, October 30, 2006 -Democrat Jim Davis speaks about getting the government out of religion. Republican Charlie Crist calls religion a private matter.Both candidates for governor have staked out positions on social issues contrary to the wishes of many Christian conservatives -- and to REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1162171875999541822006-10-29T20:27:00.000-05:002006-10-29T20:31:16.016-05:00Right Wing Wants Trans Lawmaker Banned From 'Ladies Room'by 365Gay.com Newscenter StaffOctober 27, 2006 - 5:00 pm ET(Rome) A long simmering dispute over the use of the women's bathroom by a transsexual member of Italy's Parliament erupted into a full scale battle on FridayElisabetta Gardini, a member of the right-of-center opposition, got into a shouting match with Vladimir Luxuria, the first REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1161719511643020232006-10-24T15:47:00.000-04:002006-10-24T15:51:51.660-04:00October 23, 2006Connecticut Episcopal Bishop Authorizes Priests to Bless Gay UnionsBy FERNANDA SANTOSThe leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, Bishop Andrew D. Smith, has authorized priests to give blessings to same-sex unions during religious ceremonies. The move threatens to further alienate the conservative wing of his church and deepen a fissure between progressive and orthodox REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1161695809700837622006-10-24T09:09:00.001-04:002006-10-24T09:19:33.760-04:00Christians in politics, a manifestoBy Very Reverend Thomas Hopko - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Op-EdMonday, October 23, 2006 - Web LinkOctober 22, 2006Some of us Christians (or would-be Christians) don't necessarily want our leaders to be "observant Christians." We know ourselves too well for that.We also don't want our country to consider itself a "Christian nation" because we also know what that REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1161695530942704992006-10-24T09:09:00.000-04:002006-10-24T09:12:10.966-04:00NYC Transit Implements New Transgender Rules by 365Gay.com(New York City) The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has reached agreement with a transgender advocacy group and will implement new regulations allowing people to use MTA public restrooms consistent with their gender expression. The agreement ends a complaint filed with the New York City Commission on Human Rights involving a REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1159542337189199802006-09-29T11:03:00.000-04:002006-09-29T11:05:37.206-04:00CA Church Won’t Comply With IRS Probe“A liberal Pasadena church on Thursday declared that it will refuse to comply with an IRS investigation into its tax-exemption status launched after a guest speaker was critical of President Bush in a sermon. Now, as the November election approaches, some churches worry that they may be the next targets of the IRS. This summer, the agency issued a statement REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1159536632409246792006-09-29T09:29:00.000-04:002006-09-29T09:30:32.426-04:00Watching Out For Human Rightsby Libby PostWe’re kept out of the military. We’re fired from our jobs. We’re targets of hate crimes. We’re denied the ability to legally recognize our relationships. And this is just in the United States .Homophobia has taken on a particularly international flavor of late as lesbian and gay organizations are denied entrance to United Nations gatherings.The latest REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1155069786538779352006-08-08T16:41:00.000-04:002006-08-08T16:43:06.563-04:00Columnist: Backlash inevitable but no reason to stop fighting for full rights Drawing a parallel between the backlash facing the LGBT community over marriage rights and the fierce opposition to black civil rights following the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, Detroit News columnist Deb Price believes LGBT people should find encouragement in the determination -- and REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1154716955889832502006-08-04T14:41:00.000-04:002006-08-04T14:42:35.903-04:00Florida strives to attract gay travelersWith billions at stake, Visit Florida, a state tourism marketer, is working to market to gay travelers. "We rolled out what we call the rainbow carpet a couple of years ago, and we've seen a lot of green success," said Nicki Grossman, president of the Fort Lauderdale bureau. Orlando Sentinel (Fla.) (free registration) (8/3)REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1154466123588737022006-08-01T17:00:00.000-04:002006-08-01T17:02:03.600-04:00Educating doctors to deal with transgender issues Dr. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos, assistant professor of pediatrics at UCLA, counsels doctors and medical students to get up-to-date information on gender identity issues. "Over the last 10 years," she writes, "substantial resources and training have become available that can help make every doctor's office a welcoming environment for patients with REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1154465668840375822006-08-01T16:52:00.000-04:002006-08-01T16:54:28.853-04:00Gay veterans speak out against policyBy HATTIE BROWN GARROW,The Virginian-Pilot© July 30, 2006 Last updated: 1:59 AMNORFOLK - Roxie Hoven considers herself a patriot, a preserver of freedom who was willing to work - and die - for her country. All the while, she felt oppressed.During her nine years in the Navy, Hoven hid the fact that she is a lesbian. She made no hint of her sexual orientation REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1154465408220775882006-08-01T16:46:00.001-04:002006-08-01T16:50:08.226-04:00Posted on Mon, Jul. 31, 2006GOVERNOR'S RACEDemocratic candidates woo gay votersGay-rights activists said the Democrats vying to replace Gov. Jeb Bush are not their dream team, but they are a lot more sympathetic to their cause than the Republican contenders.BY BETH REINHARDbreinhard@MiamiHerald.comWhen Rod Smith went to a recent Tallahassee conference of gay and lesbian activists, the Democratic REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1154465182050367272006-08-01T16:46:00.000-04:002006-08-01T16:46:22.066-04:00Posted on Mon, Jul. 31, 2006GOVERNOR'S RACEDemocratic candidates woo gay votersGay-rights activists said the Democrats vying to replace Gov. Jeb Bush are not their dream team, but they are a lot more sympathetic to their cause than the Republican contenders.BY BETH REINHARDbreinhard@MiamiHerald.comWhen Rod Smith went to a recent Tallahassee conference of gay and lesbian activists, the Democratic REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1153866824035067652006-07-25T18:33:00.000-04:002006-07-25T18:33:44.046-04:00Price: Candidate's success to reveal state of transgender movement The candidacy of Dana Beyer, who could become the first transgender person to hold office in any state legislature, could prove a defining moment in American politics and the wider acceptance of transgender Americans, according to Detroit News columnist Deb Price. "Dana Beyer literally embodies what we need more of in politics: REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1153866748245230882006-07-25T18:32:00.000-04:002006-07-25T18:32:28.256-04:00Sullivan: Black churches should be taken to task for anti-gay views Journalist Andrew Sullivan in his blog calls on "p.c. white gay activists" to challenge the anti-gay stances of some African-American clergy. "Their silence during the HIV and AIDS epidemic among African-Americans helped usher many black men and women into avoidable sickness and early death," he writes. TIME /The Daily Dish (7/REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1153866628756345762006-07-25T18:29:00.000-04:002006-07-25T18:30:28.766-04:00Boy Scouts plan to fight to keep free building in fight over anti-gay policy The Boy Scouts of America, responding to the City of Philadelphia's demand that it pay rent, exit the city-owned building it uses for free or distance itself from its anti-gay policy, said it would challenge the city's position. A BSA spokesperson also said the city was in danger of losing $62 million in annual HUD fundsREV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1153757501640895022006-07-24T12:09:00.001-04:002006-07-24T12:11:41.643-04:00original address: http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/15944/Gay bashers arrested after parade attackJul 24, 2006By TBT staffRIGA - A total of 14 people have been detained for attacks on representatives of sexual minorities in the Latvian capital Riga on Saturday during the gay and lesbian pride festival.National Police spokeswoman Sintija Kajina told the Baltic News Service that 13 of the REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1153757398361893392006-07-24T12:09:00.000-04:002006-07-24T12:09:58.373-04:00PRINT! CLOSE!original address: http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/15944/Gay bashers arrested after parade attackJul 24, 2006By TBT staffRIGA - A total of 14 people have been detained for attacks on representatives of sexual minorities in the Latvian capital Riga on Saturday during the gay and lesbian pride festival.National Police spokeswoman Sintija Kajina told the Baltic News Service REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1152135931094172852006-07-05T17:44:00.000-04:002006-07-05T17:45:31.106-04:00LGBT people, rights under threat in Africa, Eastern Europe As pride season is marked around the world, the climate for LGBT rights is decidedly mixed, with activists especially concerned about the potential for anti-gay violence and legislation in Africa and Eastern Europe. "In a lot of countries, you've got gays and lesbians enjoying new visibility, but at the same time the opposition forces REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1151692850731908752006-06-30T14:39:00.000-04:002006-06-30T14:40:50.743-04:00Thought that all of you, and others, might be interested in the fact that PFLAG is ringing the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchangeat 4:00 p.m. today!In accompanying stories, CNN reported that over one-half of the largest companies in the U.S. now offer same sex partner benefits and that the GLBT community represents $641 BILLION in purchasing power in this country.Many GLBT people make REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1150844115849722502006-06-20T18:53:00.001-04:002006-06-20T18:55:15.850-04:00Pentagon Lists Homosexuality As DisorderBy LOLITA C. BALDORThe Associated PressMonday, June 19, 2006; 11:05 PMWASHINGTON -- A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.The document outlines retirement or other discharge policies for service members with physical disabilities, and in a section on defects lists REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1150320179285781892006-06-14T17:22:00.000-04:002006-06-14T17:27:47.646-04:00HEIFER PROJECTJune 2006The AIDS pandemic is a serious issue in our world today, especially in Africa. It leaves entire generations of people dead, children orphaned, communities without the human resources needed for simple everyday activities such as teaching, farming and parenting.But there is hope.Heifer's model for holistic approach to ending hunger and poverty as well as sustainable REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1150236473404114152006-06-13T18:07:00.000-04:002006-06-13T18:07:53.416-04:00Clashes mark Romanian gay pride Militant protesters trying to break up a gay rights march in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, have clashed with riot police who made dozens of arrests.Ten people were reportedly injured in the violence at the GayFest event which saw hundreds of gay rights activists marching against discrimination.They were also calling for the legalisation of same-sex REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1149174281345630182006-06-01T11:04:00.000-04:002006-06-01T11:06:58.813-04:00WITH ONLY DAYS LEFT BEFORE THE US SENATE VOTES ON A BILL TO BANMARRIAGE EQUALITY FOREVER...THE FAR RIGHT IS PUTTING A FULL-COURT PRESS ON SENATOR BILLNELSON, HOPING HE WILL CHANGE HIS VOTE AND SUPPORT THEIR BIGOTEDAGENDA.Sen. Nelson stood up to these far-right extremists before and HENEEDS TO KNOW YOU HAVE HIS BACK as he stands up for equality andfairness by voting "NO" next week on the so-calledREV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1148432648246938882006-05-23T21:03:00.000-04:002006-05-23T21:04:08.256-04:00SUBSCRIBE TO MCC'S "AROUND THE FELLOWSHIP" NEWSLETTERSubscriptions are free upon request.Write to info@MCCchurch.net for your free newsletter subscription.REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1148345342871592742006-05-22T20:43:00.001-04:002006-05-22T20:49:02.873-04:00“As you all know, I don't believe in discriminating against anybody, but when it comes to traditional marriage, I draw the line.” – Sen. Orrin HatchThis is just a taste of the latest hypocrisy to come from the radical right. Extremists are swarming to provoke support for their discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment, and seem willing to stop at nothing. Click here to watch the Anti-FMA video REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1147965440598906082006-05-18T11:06:00.000-04:002006-05-18T11:17:21.050-04:00COUNTDOWN TO THE VOTE: Action Alert for U.S. ActivistsIn three weeks, the United States Senate will decide whether or not to make gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans second-class citizens in our nation's Constitution. U.S. residents, where do your Senators stand?As early as June 5, the Senate will vote on the discriminatory Federal Marriage Amendment in an attempt to write REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1147469851620531392006-05-12T17:30:00.000-04:002006-05-12T17:37:31.696-04:00WORKING ASSETS ISSUES UPDATE: May 12, 2006Take Action -- Demand Answers on Illegal Domestic SpyingTell your Representative in Congress you want some answers -- under oath -- about the telecom companies' cooperation with the NSA's illegal domestic wiretapping program.A Message From Working Assets' PresidentIn light of new revelations about the big telecommunications carriers' handing over domesticREV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1146494695022210272006-05-01T10:43:00.000-04:002006-05-01T10:44:55.886-04:00This is a critical time for all of us to notice how connected and interdependent we are as individuals living in the U.S. As an immigrant to this country, I want to tell you how important today is to me and my family, but it is also important for you and your family. We need each other and we belong together, whether U.S. born or born somewhere else on this amazing planet.As hundreds of REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1146169579255004842006-04-27T16:16:00.000-04:002006-04-27T16:26:19.346-04:00Hear Me Out! Florida and AdoptionTHE GAY ALLIANCE of THE GENESEE VALLEY NEWS (NY)April 20, 2006Hear Me Out: Florida and AdoptionWritten By: Mubarak Dahirhttp://www.gayalliance.org/content/view/341/53/Gay Alliance of the Genesee ValleySixteen states are looking to ban gay adoption. Before they do so,they should study the state of Florida. Twelve-year-old MichaelGulliford-Green just wanted REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1145998097943433772006-04-25T16:45:00.001-04:002006-04-25T16:48:17.943-04:00Out congressman sees bright future for LGBT rights Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., told an audience at a fundraiser for the Utah Stonewall Democrats that today's younger LGBT activists will live to see legal marriage for gays and lesbians and an embrace of LGBT rights in general. But he urged individuals to come out of the closet and work to achieve the movement's goals. "We don't win this alone. We REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1145998014140247632006-04-25T16:45:00.000-04:002006-04-25T16:46:54.153-04:00"I can't wait for the day when a person asks me if a gay person should be a Republican or a Democrat and I can say it depends on your economic view." -- Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., speaking at a Utah Stonewall Democrats fundraiser last week. REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1145838561979382442006-04-23T20:22:00.000-04:002006-04-23T20:29:22.026-04:00Storms says threats won't make her change views The Hillsborough commissioner and state Senate candidate wants to bar gay and lesbian couples from foster parenting.ADAM C. SMITH and BILL VARIANPublished April 23, 2006 Despite what she described as threats and "horrible things said and done to me" for her role banning official recognition of gay pride events, Hillsborough REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1145550245024899662006-04-20T12:23:00.000-04:002006-04-20T12:24:05.036-04:00In December 2004, the major media networks CBS and NBC refused to air the United Church of Christ’s ad that delivers the message, “God doesn’t reject people, neither do we.” When this happened in 2004, over 6,000 people took action at UCCTakeAction.org to tell the executives of the networks that they should air the ad.Once again, a new UCC commercial, which invites all people into the church, REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1145546651918140342006-04-20T11:23:00.000-04:002006-04-20T11:24:11.930-04:00Dear REV. ANNE,I’m writing to give you an update on our Safe Schools campaign to protect ALL students from harassment and bullying.This past Tuesday was a big day in Tallahassee – both the Senate and the House held hearings on companion Safe Schools bills. We testified before both committees about the need for amendments because the current anti-bullying legislation not only fails to adequately REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1145296474350297982006-04-17T13:54:00.000-04:002006-04-17T13:54:34.643-04:00Dear REV. ANNE,As you may know, dangerous legislation that will repeal the strongest anti-bullying policies in the state is moving through the legislature in Tallahassee.House Bill 535 - Bullying and Harassment - has passed three committee hearings and has a final hearing in the House Education Council tomorrow - Tuesday, April 18th.This hearing presents the final chance to amend this bill. REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1145219537926404612006-04-16T16:31:00.000-04:002006-04-16T16:32:17.940-04:00To my colleagues & friends in MCC,I want to share with you what promises to be the start of a wonderful, yet uncertain journey. Tomorrow morning, at the close of an Ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service, I will begin a Walk across the United States with other colleagues. Even as I begin this walk I do not know how everything will turn out. The family challenges I face with Wanda have not yet been REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1144800451318132412006-04-11T20:05:00.000-04:002006-04-11T20:07:31.340-04:00April 11, 2006A free twice-weekly news summary for the LGBT communityHeadlinesVirginia gov refuses to sign marriage amendment Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, has refused to sign a measure that puts an anti-gay marriage amendment on a statewide ballot this November, a move his spokesman called "symbolic and relatively rare." The governor, who was not able to veto the legislation, urged voters REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1119891525956554522005-06-27T12:58:00.000-04:002005-06-27T12:58:46.023-04:00Pride is Back
I served our country to PROTECT our freedoms...NOT to Take away! Lindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04662536114810317943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1094849849568980262004-09-10T16:57:00.000-04:002004-09-10T16:58:32.000-04:00Ecumenical "Christian Principles in an Election Year"
Offer Criteria for Judging Candidates
The National Council of Churches USA has released 10 principles for evaluating candidates that it hopes all Christians -- from liberals to conservatives -- will study and apply in this election year.
These "Christian Principles in an Election Year" apply well-established ecumenical principles to both Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1094739442155572302004-09-09T10:17:00.000-04:002004-09-09T10:21:18.513-04:00Americans in FL Will Come Together to Honor the Fallen and Demand an End to the War
Locally at CRESCENT LAKE 1320 - 5th St. N. (59 registered participants)
ST PETERSBURG, FL
Crescent Lake is a 56 acre public park located between Martin Luther King (9th Street North) and 4th Street North, directly South of 22nd Avenue North, near Sunken Gardens in St. Petersburg. There have been peace vigils atGeorgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1093545389308855652004-08-26T14:36:00.000-04:002004-08-26T14:38:18.540-04:00Bush Tries to Hide Poverty Numbers
Anticipating the release of devastating new poverty and health care statistics, the Bush administration today took the extraordinary step today of trying to bury the numbers. Specifically, the Administration had its top political appointee at the Census Bureau release the numbers a month earlier than usual, during the August congressional recess when many Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1093531462409550992004-08-26T10:44:00.000-04:002004-08-26T10:44:58.326-04:00MSNBC - Voters may have their say before Election Day
Battleground states leading revolution in absentee balloting.Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1092967010073772912004-08-19T21:56:00.000-04:002004-08-19T21:58:59.610-04:00An Election Year Campaign: Take Back Our Faith
by Jim Wallis
I've only asked you to do this once before - to send an e-mail alert to everybody you know. The last time was to help us get out the "6-point plan," which was a concrete alternative to war with Iraq offered by American religious leaders at the midnight hour. That plan had an enormous impact and was heard at the highest levels of the Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1092850196273136562004-08-18T13:29:00.000-04:002004-08-18T13:30:39.366-04:00TurnOut Florida Campaign Off to Great Start
Your Help is Needed for 9 City Election Canvass
Equality Florida and the rest of the TurnOut Florida coalition have been hard at work making tremendous progress toward our goal of mobilizing 350,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and supportive (LGBTS) voters. We've built the nation's largest coalition of LGBTS organization's ever brought Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-109284274563101072004-08-18T11:25:00.000-04:002004-08-18T13:33:44.546-04:00"THE CURRENT DARKNESS"
an editorial comment by Hal Crowther
Mr. Crowther is a former writer for Time and Newsweek, the Buffalo News and the North Carolina Spectator before parking his column at the weekly Independent in Durham, N.C., and The Progressive Populist, among others. He won the H.L. Mencken Award for column writing in 1992. Write him at 219 N. Churton St., Hillsborough, NC 27278. Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1092773354154844402004-08-17T16:09:00.000-04:002004-08-17T16:13:11.190-04:00AU Report Finds Bush 'Faith-Based' Agenda Spreading In Federal Government
Initiative Ignores Constitutional Principles And Civil Rights Protections, Says Americans United.Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1092759289959465302004-08-17T12:14:00.000-04:002004-08-17T12:22:40.333-04:00GRAND THEFT AMERICA
A reminder of the last presidential election.Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1092160321622660172004-08-10T13:52:00.000-04:002004-08-10T13:52:01.623-04:00MSNBC - A new 'Bushism': We're gonna get usGeorgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1091808212802627232004-08-06T12:03:00.000-04:002004-08-18T11:36:48.113-04:00Esquire:Feature Story:The Case Against George W. Bush:
September 2004, Volume 142, Issue 3
By Ron Reagan
The son of the fortieth president of the United States takes a hard look at the son of the forty-first and does not like what he sees.Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-109120970439205912004-07-30T13:44:00.000-04:002004-07-30T13:53:48.143-04:00An Excerpt from John Kerry's Speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention
"I don't wear my own faith on my sleeve. But faith has given me values and hope to live by, from Vietnam to this day, from Sunday to Sunday. I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side. And whatever our faith, one belief should bind us all: Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1091133294003053702004-07-29T16:33:00.000-04:002004-07-29T16:34:54.003-04:00FALWELL MISLEADING RELIGIOUS LEADERS ABOUT TAX LAW, AMERICANS UNITED TELLS IRS
Church-State Watchdog Group Urges Tax Agency To Crack Down On Virginia TV Preacher's Disinformation Campaign
The Rev. Jerry Falwell is misleading religious leaders about the rules governing churches and partisan politics, and the Internal Revenue Service should take immediate steps to clarify the situation, says Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1091116616978106162004-07-29T11:54:00.000-04:002004-07-29T11:56:56.976-04:00Logo spat spurs claim of racism
St Petersburg Times Letter to the Editor
-- by George Shaughnessy
In a wonderful spirit of generosity the magnanimous City Council of Pinellas Park has created a legacy for themselves in the creation of their Angel Fund.
“The fund is patterned after Pennies from Heaven, created by the Sumter (County) Electric Cooperative. Customers who want to participate round Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090968200986820352004-07-27T18:37:00.000-04:002004-07-27T18:43:20.986-04:00Sudan Genocide: Our Win in Congress Pressures Bush
by Andrew Greenblatt
Online Organizer for TrueMajority.org
Two weeks ago, TrueMajority members urged Congress to name the atrocities in Sudan “genocide” and call on the Bush administration to take strong action, including a military intervention if necessary, to stop it. Within days, we delivered over 150,000 messages, and just before they Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090939503304288192004-07-27T10:39:00.000-04:002004-07-27T10:45:03.303-04:00A Word To U.S. Residents About Voter Registration
Let me also say an important word to all MCC friends in the United Sates. It is vital that you register to vote in the upcoming November elections -- and vital that each of us makes our voice heard by going to the voting booth in November. And don't stop there. Please, please encourage your friends to register and vote.
-- The Reverend Dr. Troy DGeorgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090839543953111442004-07-26T06:54:00.000-04:002004-07-26T07:00:25.306-04:00Help Us Mobilize 350,000 Fair-Minded Florida Voters!
"Anti-gay politicians have placed a target on our community. They've taken aim at our families for political gain. Now we must vote. We must make our voices heard. We must TurnOut Florida and show that there are consequences to the politics of gay bashing
--Nadine Smith, Equality Florida
With 100 Days left before the Nov 2nd Election, weGeorgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090839081156141962004-07-26T06:47:00.000-04:002004-07-26T06:51:21.156-04:00County Supervisor Booted from Bush Event for Wearing Hidden Kerry Shirt
by Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive
President Bush came to Wisconsin on July 14 and gave a speech in a town called Ashwaubenon, and Jayson Nelson wanted to hear him.
Nelson is an elected official. As an Outagamie County supervisor, he says he was notified that there were extra tickets for the event if he wanted one.
Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090510631997671262004-07-22T11:37:00.000-04:002004-07-22T11:37:11.996-04:00This Land Our LandGeorgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090457459737415892004-07-21T20:47:00.000-04:002004-07-21T20:50:59.736-04:00Ethnic cleansing in Sudan
by Elizabeth Palmberg
Just as peace is finally within reach in Sudan's bloody North/South civil war, a new threat of ethnic cleansing and mass death is looming elsewhere in Sudan, in the huge western province of Darfur. Government-armed Arab militias known as the Janjaweed, with open support from the Sudanese military, are attacking villages from non-Arab ethnic Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090457173205638432004-07-21T20:43:00.000-04:002004-07-21T20:53:09.040-04:00Democracy for sale
by Bill Moyers
There are two Americas today. You could see this division in a little-noticed action this spring in the House of Representatives. Republicans in the House approved new tax credits for the children of families earning as much as $309,000 a year - families that already enjoy significant benefits from earlier tax cuts - while doing next to nothing for those at Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1090039500873169612004-07-17T00:39:00.000-04:002004-07-17T00:45:00.873-04:00NY Promoter Wants Springsteen to Upstage Bush
Tue Jun 22, 3:03 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York concert promoter has mounted an online campaign to "draft" Bruce Springsteen to headline a rock 'n roll show to upstage the Republican National Convention, but the rock icon appears to be uninterested.
The "Concert for Change," would be held on Sept. 1 at Giants Stadium, across the Hudson Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089983440267188532004-07-16T08:56:00.000-04:002004-07-16T09:14:59.506-04:00Computer Ate My Vote: TrueMajority Members Rally
Last Tuesday, TrueMajority led a coalition of seven other groups to stage simultaneous media events in 19 states around The Computer Ate My Vote campaign. Advocates of verifiable balloting delivered about 350,000 petition signatures to state election officials, asking that they offer paper ballots this November to ensure that votes actually get Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089903294454831732004-07-15T10:49:00.000-04:002004-07-15T10:54:54.453-04:00Fire Marriage Amendment Supporters
Yesterday, President Bush's effort to write divisiveness and hate into the Constitution went down in flames. Republicans needed 67 votes in the Senate to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment, but they got only 48 on yesterday’s vote – not even a simple majority. It's a huge victory.
Despite the defeat in Congress, Republicans threaten now to make this "an Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089844465479701392004-07-14T18:31:00.000-04:002004-07-15T10:49:00.873-04:00Protest Bush's visit to Tampa Friday
Join MoveOn and other groups this Friday at 8:30am as we protest President Bush's visit to Tampa and his broken promises to America's women! ">Click Here.
President Bush is coming to Tampa this Friday, July 16, for a Department of Justice conference on sex trafficking. And we'll be there to demand that he apologize to conference participants and to the Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089832143798289972004-07-14T15:06:00.000-04:002004-07-14T15:09:03.796-04:00FMA Defeated in Senate - Much work still to be done
According to the Associated Press, a cloture vote taken to keep the FMA alive was defeated 48-50, 12 votes short of the 60 votes needed.
“This is a wonderful step in the right direction, and people of faith and faith communities played a large role in the defeat of the amendment by letting our senators know that this is not an acceptable Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089831190815079072004-07-14T14:50:00.000-04:002004-07-14T14:53:10.816-04:00HOUSE COMMITTEE SHOULD REJECT EFFORT TO WEAKEN FEDERAL COURTS, SAYS AMERICANS UNITED Measure Would Undermine A Fair And Independent Judiciary, AU's Lynn Says
Congress should reject efforts to strip the federal courts of their ability to hear cases dealing with the definition of marriage, Americans United for Separation Church and State said today in a letter to a House committee.
The House Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089811725134531392004-07-14T09:22:00.000-04:002004-07-14T09:29:17.703-04:00Oppose Stealthy Attempts to Promote Marriage Discrimination
from Matt Howes, National Internet Organizer, ACLU
Even as Senate Republicans appear to be failing in their efforts to write discrimination into the Constitution, leaders of the House of Representatives are gearing up to find alternative backdoor methods to block marriage equality.
House Republican Majority leader Tom DeLay is Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089745331265850782004-07-13T14:59:00.000-04:002004-07-13T15:16:29.476-04:00Election Monitors to Prevent Another Stolen Election in 2004
Democrats.com News asks that you sign their petition
To: George W. Bush
We call on you to request expert election monitors to avoid an unprecedented electoral - and Constitutional - crisis over the Presidential election of November 2, 2004. Such a request was made by 13 Members of Congress on July 1, 2004.
We saw a preview of this Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089739620211629242004-07-13T13:14:00.000-04:002004-07-13T15:17:30.310-04:00BUSH MISLEADS ABOUT RACE RELATIONS
In 2000, Presidential candidate George W. Bush courageously chastised his own conservative colleagues saying "while some in my party have avoided the NAACP, and while some in the NAACP have avoided my party, I'm proud to be here...I believe we can find common ground." [SOURCE: Bush Speech, 7/10/2000] But after refusing to speak at yesterday's NAACP's annual Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089736303718694192004-07-13T12:27:00.002-04:002004-07-13T15:18:30.110-04:00OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
"Outfoxed" examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, have been running a "race to the bottom" in television news. This film provides an in-depth look at Fox News and the dangers of ever-enlarging corporations taking control of the public's right to know.
The film explores Murdoch's burgeoning kingdom and the impact on society when Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089726037760555372004-07-13T09:40:00.000-04:002004-07-13T15:18:46.466-04:00Slate Cartoon: Gay Marriage Debate
We're on YELLOW alert, terrorists are about to disrupt our elections, the deficit is bigger than ever, the world hates us, the states are broke -but what bothers me most is GAY MARRIAGE!
We have to look at GAY MARRIAGE right now! Click hereGeorgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1089460025353662412004-07-10T07:41:00.000-04:002004-07-10T07:53:56.136-04:00National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Action Alert: Federal Marriage Amendment Senate Debate Started Today
Task Force friends: Over the coming days, the United States Senate is scheduled to debate the "Federal Marriage Amendment" that would, for the first time in history, amend the constitution of the United States to explicitly discriminate against a minority by forever prohibiting the Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1088799881245419522004-07-02T16:20:00.000-04:002004-07-02T16:26:16.563-04:00Check It For Yourself!
On July 1, People For the American Way Foundation received from the Florida Division of Elections an electronic copy of a list of more than 47,000 registered Florida voters who the Division thinks may be ineligible to vote because of felony convictions. This list is now a public record available for inspection and copying by anyone as a result of the decision on July 1 Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1088556686472440732004-06-29T20:48:00.000-04:002004-06-29T20:52:21.336-04:00SOMTHING TO THINK ABOUT AND TAKE ACTION:
The bright hope of Brown was to build a society without the racial caste system that had for so long determined destiny according to skin color. The progress toward that goal has been tremendous. Yet we are a good distance from the finish. More worrisomely, we may no longer be running the race. In this political season, amid deep divisions over war, the REV. ANNE KOPMEIERhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091693956267554204noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1088534095092985912004-06-29T14:32:00.000-04:002004-06-29T14:34:55.093-04:00A Call to Prayer
From The Reverend Dr. Troy D. Perry
Office of the MCC Moderator
Dear Friend:
I am writing to encourage that prayers be offered on behalf of LGBT people across the state of Virginia (USA) on June 30, 2004, as they observe statewide "Stand Up For Equality" events and public actions
On July 1, 2004, a new Virginia state law -- House Bill 751 -- will go into effect. It is one of Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1087919147427011722004-06-22T11:45:00.000-04:002004-06-22T11:47:18.526-04:00a personal note from Mo
Dear Friend,
The Federal Marriage Amendment is expected to come to a vote in the US Senate in early July. We must let our Senators know that we do NOT want discrimination written into the constitution! Even if you've already spoken out on this issue before, our Senators need to hear from us often and loudly during the next few weeks! Please, join me in sending a Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1087502307764607342004-06-17T15:55:00.000-04:002004-06-17T15:58:27.766-04:00SOULFORCE REPORT ON SOUTHERN BAPTIST ACTION IN INDIANA - ANTI-GAY RHETORIC CONTINUES
(Indianapolis) - For the 5th year in a row, Soulforce volunteers stood vigil outside the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting to confront the untruths perpetuated by Southern Baptist resolutions and teachings against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. The annual meeting, which took place in Georgenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5824332.post-1087480649444350372004-06-17T09:56:00.000-04:002004-07-13T16:21:48.080-04:00Remembering Reagan - June 2004Georgenoreply@blogger.com0