http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=21250
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Clergy for Fairness Speak Out Against Federal Marriage Amendment
Reverend Samuel speaks out against the FMA, surrounded by other members of
Clergy for Fairness
People For the American Way helped organize and support a day of activities
to focus attention on growing opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment
among religious leaders. Clergy for Fairness, which has gathered more than
1,600 clergy signatures opposed to writing discrimination into the
Constitution, brought a group of more than 40 ministers, rabbis, and other
religious leaders to the U.S. Capitol for a May 22 press conference,
briefing for Senate staff, and lobby visits with congressional offices.
Two members of African American Ministers in Action – Rev. Kenneth Samuel
of Victory for the World Church in Stone Mountain, Georgia and Rev. Rolen
Lewis Womack of Progressive Baptist Church, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin –
explained how their religious values have led them to oppose the Federal
Marriage Amendment.
Rev. Samuel spoke of the efforts of Dr. Martin Luther King to secure the
blessings of liberty for all people, and the commitment of Coretta Scott
King to oppose homophobia. “To discriminate against a class of people is
wrong,” he said, “because a threat to justice anywhere is still a threat to
justice everywhere.”
Rev. Womack said that his own family contained many different types of
people, and that his faith called on him to oppose an amendment that valued
some family members more than others. He called on the audience to let
their faith guide them to oppose discrimination. “It’s your faith. It’s
your future. It’s our family.”
The Clergy For Fairness activities were supported by many members of the
Coalition Against Discrimination in the Constitution, including The
Interfaith Alliance, The National Council of Jewish Women, Americans United
for Separation of Church and State, the Human Rights Campaign, and the
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
People For the American Way advocates for full legal equality for all
Americans, and is working to defeat the Federal Marriage Amendment and
other discriminatory legislation.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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