Reflections on the Faces For Equality Project
Over the past three weeks, I’ve been posting vignettes of folks I met at the National Equality March. I collected 20 profiles in total, featuring 22 individuals with their friends, family, and loved ones at the March. I called this project Faces For Equality. My original goal was to put a more human face on [...]
Faces For Equality: Dana Strickler
Name: Dana Strickler Age: 63 Hometown: Kingsport, TN Occupation: Retired Kindergarten Teacher Why I Found Her at The NEM: “It’s time, it’s very much time.” That was Dana’s mantra at the March, which she attended to support LGBT people. “It’s time.” Dana is part of the Unitarian Universalist church back in Tennessee, a religious organization [...]
Anti-Gay Mainers Ready to Intimidate State With Church
Hands Around Maine is ready to take a religious stand and pray for their leaders to do (what they think is) the right thing: As you know, in Romans we are told that the civil magistrate is a minister of God and is to be a minister of justice and a terror to evildoers. We [...]
Faces For Equality: Rebecca Geller
Name: Rebecca Geller (Pictured above on the right with members of her family) Age: 29 Hometown: Fairfax, VA Occupation: Lawyer Why I Found Her at The NEM: Rebecca spoke with concision as only a lawyer could. Her reasons for being at the March were simple: her cousin and her best friend are gay, and if [...]
Hateful Opposition to Hate Crimes Legislation
After my post about hate crimes legislation earlier today, I thought I’d show you what the opposition looks like. Here is the headline from today’s OneNewsNow email: Hate crimes law – ungodly, unconstitutional, unnecessary The interesting thing to note here is that the sole reason the individual in this article condemns the law is because [...]
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