http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=52764
Religious Coalition Demonstrates Against Focus on the Family's Anti-Gay
Agenda
9/7/2005 10:30:00 AM
To: National Desk
Contact: Rabbi Devon Lerner, 781-308-8158, or The Rev'd. Anne C. Fowler,
617-522-9093, or Joshua Friedes, 617-821-7206, all for the Religious
Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, Web: http://www.RCFM.org
News Advisory:
WHO: The Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, a group of more than
600 individual clergy and congregations from 21 faith traditions.
WHAT: The coalition will demonstrate against Colorado-based Focus on the
Family's extreme anti-gay agenda and bear witness to the huge, broad-based
religious support for marriage equality.
WHY: Focus on the Family is holding a Love Won Out, "pre-event" where
clergy, youth minister, and others are taught how to "deal with
homosexuality." Love Won Out is an "ex-gay" movement created by Focus on
the Family. Its goal is to prevent homosexuality and to convert gays and
lesbians into heterosexual conservative Christians.
Focus on the Family represents only a small minority of people of faith in
the Commonwealth. Hundreds of thousands of Catholic lay people,
Protestants, Jews and followers of more than a dozen other faith traditions
support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples and their families.
Focus on the Family and other organizations of their ilk are trying to
force their narrow, extreme religious views of sexuality and marriage on
the rest of us, says the coalition. They display complete disregard for the
separation of church and state.
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 8, 12 - 1 p.m.
WHERE: In front of Tremont Street Baptist Church, sight of the Focus on the
Family's Love Won Out event. 88 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.
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The Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry is a group of more than
600 rabbis, ministers, and faith leaders, as well as congregations, and
faith-based organizations from 21 faith traditions. They advocate for equal
marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples and families. For them, this is
a matter of justice and civil rights. Their mission includes providing
religious support and pastoral care for gay and lesbian couples and
families as well as educational programs and projects that support the full
inclusion of gay and lesbian families into our society.
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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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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