28
April
2006
3:45, MacArthur Park
5:00, Wilshire and La Brea
Join thousands of your fellow Angelenos, religious leaders, and progressive organizations in support of the rights of human beings to fully be a part of American society. The march begins at 3:45 at Mac Arthur Park, in front of the UCLA Labor Center (on Parkview between 7th and Wilshire), and will march 4 miles to the La Brea Tar Pits on Wilshire and La Brea. At 5:00, there will be a program at the end point including music, prayer, and speakers. Be there with banners, your friends, and your hope for a better future for immigrants and all Americans!
Posted: Happening in the World
26
April
2006
My vote for most appalling news story of this past week goes to a piece appearing in The New York Times on April 24, “A Religious Push Against Gay Unions,” wherein David Kirkpatrick informs us that what is new and “striking” this time around is “involvement by high-ranking Roman Catholic officials, including 16 bishops. Kirkpatrick notes that in 2004 the push for an amendment to the U.S. constitution barring same-sex marriage–a push that brought huge numbers to the polls and gave the election to George W. Bush–was heavily dominated by evangelical and Fundamentalist Protestants. Dobson, James Kennedy, et al, are back at it again, but this time they are surrounded by lots of purple.
What does the Good Book say? “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers (sic) dwell together in unity?” Yes, indeed, how good and how very pleasant it is to see 500-year-old wounds from the Protestant Reformation healing over in a common urgent effort to smite those unclean and unworthy same-sexers. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: Director's Cut
21
April
2006
We were all relieved when the U.S. Supreme Court decisively turned back the effort initiated by former Attorney General John Ashcroft to crush Oregon’s pioneering death-with-dignity legislation. This means that the way is open for California—a vastly larger state—to enact a bill modeled on Oregon’s law: the California Compassionate Choices Act, which now carries bill number AB 651. Action in both houses of the California Legislature is expected this summer.
Needless to say, the Religious Right is working overtime todemonize the California bill and pressure legislators not to sign on in support of it. Read the rest of this entry »
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