NE RUM's and friends : Time to Celebrate Love and Marriage in NY -- and the work of RMN with SING A NEW SONG CONVO happening and many ministries to move the UMC forward!
Give to groups that support GLBT rights and equality, full participation! www.RMNetwork.org Prayers to those leaving for SING A NEW SONG CONVO! Prayers for the Convo -
Give to our 2011 Summer Email Offering -- as our commmitment in NE-- as an official Reconciling Community of RMN for six years as an email network of friends -- we are hoping for $250 plus!
Thanks to all volunteers who send out NE reconciling news!
Write your check / love Gift to RMN and send to Maureen Vetter, 4422 Drake Lane, G Island, NE 68801 today in honor of someone, in memory of someone, to celebrate something, for someone's birthday!
Donors so far this summer: Betty, Bob Dorr and friends with RMN table gifts, Joan and Lloyd Byerhof for Jimmy Creech's Birthday, Cathy Denman for Maureen Vetter's birthday, Wendy, Eric, Brian and Jenna Smith in honor of birthdays of friends, Jim and Donna Lightbody in honor of Birthdays of friends, Loren and Iola Mullins, Maureen and Jay Vetter for Cathy Denman, Liz Bady and birthdays of friends -- we are at $210 so far this summer! Let's make it $250 or more to RMN from NE.
Join Facebook today: Nebraska Statewide Reconciling Network -- and see our blog:
THANKS TO EVERYONE! Here is the news to Celebrate Love and marriage in NY -
Today we celebrate our families, equality and how far we have come as a community. We congratulate same-sex couples across New York who are exchanging vows in their home state.
We've been fighting for same-sex couples and their families in New York for years and we congratulate the courageous couples we represented in our 2004 marriage lawsuit ( Hernandez v. Robles ).
They worked hard through both litigation and legislative advocacy to reach this day. Two of those couples will be getting married today—please take a moment tomeet them and share their joy.
You can honor a couple by making a donation in their name on Lambda Legal's Wedding Registry, or join other couples by registering your wedding with Lambda Legal. Make a gift from the heart—support our work for equality.
It takes a lot of people to make history. Thank you to our colleagues at Empire State Pride Agenda and Freedom to Marry who formed New Yorkers United for Marriage and all of our allies who fought so hard for this day. We thank Governor Cuomo for his leadership, and we are proud of the state legislators who voted for equality.
Lambda Legal never gave up fighting in New York for greater recognition of our relationships and families, and we are not giving up in New Jersey either. Just days after the winning vote in New York, we filed our lawsuit seeking marriage equality in New Jersey representing seven same-sex couples and Garden State Equality. New Jersey still treats same-sex couples as inferior to others—it's time to put a stop to that.
And New York still has not enacted a law protecting people against discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression. It's time to end that discrimination, too.
We won't stop fighting for basic rights and protections across this country. While we celebrate the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in New York, we know that terrible discrimination, exclusion and violence still harm LGBT people and people with HIV every day. Progress for some makes us work harder for all.
Kevin Cathcart.
Kevin Cathcart
Executive Director
Lambda Legal
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