NE Reconciling folks and friends: Remember the work of repealing DOMA continues in the email below.. along with Reconciling work, Church Within a church and many advocacy groups, faith groups! It is Another Great year of Spiritual Awakenings!
Dates coming up: April 8, 7 pm, GI 3rd Annual HIV AIDS Benefit Concert Trinity UMC, Gollaher Chapel, 5th and Elm, GI
April 9, 11 am, PFLAG hastings coffee time at Blue moon, Hastings, NE downtown, come and meet new friends
April 10, Open Hearts Reconciling Community, 2:30 PM, fellowship time, bring snacks, 3 PM, Trinity UMC, GI, sharing, support
April 14, Day of Silence, Hastings Alliance, Hastings College, Hastings NE
April 18, 5:30 PM, Hazelrigg Student union, Hastings college, PFLAG Hastings, GSA & PFLAG combined potluck meeting
April 18, 7 - 8:30 PM,Town Hall Meeting on Health of LGBTQA in NE, Saint Paul UMC, room 155, Downtown Lincoln
May 31, NE MFSA Dinner (Methodist Federation for Social Action), be watching for info! Dr Don Messer coming as speaker!
June 1 - 4, NE UMC Annual Conference, St Marks UMC Lincoln, south 84th
Summer : Pride events in Lincoln and Omaha to support
----- Original Message -----
From: Cleve Jones, Courage Campaign
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:34 AM
Subject: I am here to recruit you
Dear maureen,
When I heard the news that Sen. Dianne Feinstein would introduce repeal of the "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA), I was thrilled. Clearly this is a game-changer. And I remembered almost 40 years ago when Dianne Feinstein was still a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and hosted a commitment ceremony for our mutual friend Jo Daly, a lesbian activist.
A great deal has happened in the 40 years since I joined this movement. Today we are on the cusp of winning full equality. But full equality by definition can only come from the federal government. For decades we have fought city-by-city, state-by-state for fractions of equality, and even when we won, every victory is incomplete and impermanent. Incomplete because they do not include the federal rights that are granted to straight Americans and impermanent because we see how easily these victories are overturned at the ballot box.
Now is the time to end this debate. Now is the time to win. We will win through concerted, coordinated political action in all 435 Congressional districts. We must show all 435 members of Congress that people who live, work, pay taxes and vote in their districts believe in equality for all Americans. And to do that, we must have volunteers in 435 districts who can help build pressure on elected representatives in their state.
Will you volunteer just 8 hours a month to become a Courage State Coordinator, working with us to repeal DOMA?
or, if you cannot volunteer:
Will you chip in to fund our efforts to build a 50-state network to repeal DOMA?
Look, I've been in this movement a long time and I'm nearly 60 (if can you believe it). I'm not saying it's made me wise, but it's given me a lot of memories. And I've never seen anything like the sea change we've seen in the last two years. Now is the time to finish the job.
When Sen. Feinstein said she was determined to repeal DOMA, we knew she meant business and we're going to be full partners in making it happen. Please join us -- whether through volunteering or through donating to our work.
In solidarity,
Cleve Jones
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