| Metropolitan Community Churches Tearing Down Walls. Building Up Hope. | | | | | Do you want to get involved? | | | | Join Rev. Elder Diane Fisher in Washington, DC on October 10-11, 2009 at the National Equality March | | I am so excited to be participating in the upcoming March in Washington. I am a Canadian living in the United States and married to an American. My partner Judi and I are lucky to be living in Massachusetts where we were able to be legally married. I so want that freedom for all Americans. I hope that the march will help the nation's politicians to understand and respond to inequality within the US and ensure that ALL Americans are equally protected under the law and have the same freedoms.
I travel internationally and have been a strong advocate for Human Rights for LGBT people. Many of the nations I visited have recently legislated protection for their LGBT citizens. Why is the United States so far behind? Latvia, Bulgaria, and Romania have better legislation for the protection of the LGBT community than most US states. | | We need to Tear Down Walls and Build Up Hope in the United States! | | Marches have been an incredibly powerful tool to bring attention to issues facing cultures around the world. They have been a powerful tool in the LGBT community. They brought us out of our closets when Anita Bryant was campaigning in the seventies. They brought attention to the reality of AIDS and the need for treatment and research in the eighties. They built up our movement and became celebrations of our lives in the nineties. And now, we will be standing together again for full protection under the law and the right to marry if we choose. | | We will be Tearing Down Walls and Building Up Hope! | I am passionate about justice and justice making. There is a need for justice making right here. Jesus stood with the marginalized and oppressed. We will be standing, not just for ourselves, but for those who are still unable to be open about who they are: for fear of losing their jobs, their children, their homes and their freedom.
I believe that it is incredibly unjust for a nation that prides itself on democracy, and being the greatest nation in the world to allow, only, some of its citizens, full protection under the law. This must change! | | I invite you to join me in Washington to march for justice, to take a stand for freedom and to walk for hope.
We must Tear Down Walls and Build up Hope! | | Help us make a difference! Information available on the organization's website. Check it out and see you in DC! | | Metropolitan Community Churches and
Would Jesus Discriminate? present... "Faith Communities and LGBT Justice Campaigns: Creating and Sustaining Grassroots Justice Initiatives" Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 2:00-4:00 pm
Foundry United Methodist Church, 16th and P Streets, Washington, DC This interactive workshop will feature a diverse panel of faith leaders including Rev. Nancy Wilson, MCC Moderator, Rev. Dean Snyder, Sr. Pastor of Foundry UMC, Adam Gerhardstein of the Unitarian Universalist "Standing on the Side of Love" Campaign and Pastor Darren Phelps of the Bethel Christian Church, connected with The Fellowship. Rev. Pat Bumgardner, MCCNY, will moderate the panel conversation. Churches will gather information on how to create and sustain social justice initiatives in their local communities, including developing social justice partnerships with allies in their communities.
Schedule: 2:00 - Gathering and Welcome
2:15 - Panel Sharing and Conversation
3:00 - Q & A
3:45 - Closing Organizers for this workshop are Kareem Murphy, MCC DC and Rev. Joe Cobb, MCC of the Blue Ridge. For more information, contact Rev. Cobb at namastejoe@gmail.com. MCC Church Informal Gathering and Reception with Rev. Nancy Wilson
Saturday, October 10, 2009 - 4:00-5:00 pm
Foundry United Methodist Church, 16th and P Streets, Washington, DC
Join us for a time of conversation, connection and community as we celebrate our unique ministries and common hopes! Would Jesus Discriminate?
MCC Churches who are involved in WJD? campaigns are encouraged to carry WJD? banners and signs in the October 11 National Equality Rally. | | | | | | | |
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