Reconciling UM's in NE : Coming out day is almost here : see NE RUM events on Facebook : Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network
Interfaith Rally at Omaha First UMC : Oct 11 on Coming out day! See Omaha First or Omaha PFLAG for details!
Spirit day is coming Oct 19 : tell your friends, folks at church and work! Wear purple and urge our candidates to wear purple : read the story why from GLAAD! Maureen and Wendy, Social network contaccts, PRN contacts, Main Email contacts, Local RMN contacts in NE
Sign up to be an RUM or Reconciling United methodist today for Coming out day! go towww.RMNetwork.org today! Sign up and Sign on!
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From GLAAD today: visit their website, facebook and more! Also Human Rights campaign, Soulroce, Church within a church and RMN or Reconciling Ministries network : collaborate with other groups and start a support group in your town or area!
Tell the presidential candidates to join millions by wearing purple on Spirit Day
If you cannot see the images in this message, please view this message in your browserShare with friends! Tell the Presidential Candidates to Join Millions by Wearing Purple on Spirit Day to Stand Against Bullying and Support LGBT Youth.
I'm Katy Butler. You might know me from my work to change the rating of the documentary Bully to PG-13 so more young people could see it. Now I’m asking President Obama and Governor Romney to take a stand against bullying.
Once, when I was in 7th grade, a few guys came up behind me while I was putting my books in my locker. They called me names and asked me why I even bothered to show my face at school because no one wanted to go to school with a lesbian. When I went to leave, they pushed me against the wall. Then they slammed my locker shut on my hand, breaking my finger. I held back tears while I watched them run away laughing. I didn’t tell anyone because I didn’t know whom I could talk to about being gay.
This was long before the start of Spirit Day, and before it felt like our society really started taking bullying seriously.
Today, and because of the visibility Spirit Day has helped bring to bullying, things are different. So I’m asking President Obama and Governor Romney, who’s from my home state of Michigan, to wear purple on October 19th for Spirit Day to show voters and countless young people that, no matter your politics, bullying just isn’t acceptable.
I, and kids just like me, have spent years of our lives afraid to say anything about bullying, because there was no effort to publicly show support for us. I've been there. I felt like no one cared. I felt alone and we all need to work to ensure that LGBT young people don’t feel that way any more.
Katy Butler
Spirit Day Ambassador and Anti-Bullying Advocate
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