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posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 31st, 2010
Meet the staff of the UU United Nations Office
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WHEN: Wednesday, February 3 7:00 p.m.
WHERE:
UU Church of Oak Cliff
3839 W. Kiest
Who are the Speakers?
Bruce F. Knotts, Executive Director
Rev. Patricia Ackerman, LGBT/SOGI Human Rights Program Officer
Geronimo D. Desumala III, LGBT/SOGI Human [...]
posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 31st, 2010
The broadcast networks that air the Super Bowl have historically rejected advocacy ads. Yet CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl this year, has accepted an anti-choice ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family.
Focus on the Family’s “celebrate life” (read: anti-choice) ad features Heisman Trophy-winning college football star Tim Tebow. And CBS [...]
posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 29th, 2010
We have learned of Rev. Meyer’s last wishes:
“Suzanne asked that her friends send donations to the Cheyenne church, her final tour of duty, because the fellowship supported her tirelessly with food, rides, companionship, animal care, hand-holding, and love during her final months. Though she had served them relatively briefly, this church stepped up with [...]
posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 27th, 2010
Crystal City 1969 was an inspiring play about the student walkout of Crystal City High School in 1969.
In the play, just a few students (three of them) were able to organize and have the courage to maintain the walkout to gain equal rights and opportunities for 85% of the population of the [...]
posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 22nd, 2010
So, for the record, I am an anti-abortion, pro-choice UU. What?? Yes. I would be happiest if there were never any more abortions. That would mean that every fetus is healthy, and every baby is wanted. Ideally, planned for as well, but certainly wanted. For all the right reasons. By a loving [...]
posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 22nd, 2010
There are many things in this life I have never experienced. I pride myself in being fairly open minded and willing to experiment. I think it gives me a greater appreciation for seeing the world through another person’s eyes. It makes me well rounded; more so than you might say if you [...]
posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 22nd, 2010
I was born in 1970, which makes me three years older than Roe v. Wade. It also means that I grew up in a world where safe, legal abortion was a fact of life…or so I thought.
When I was eighteen and nineteen and living in San Jose, Operation Rescue, the militant anti-choice group, targeted [...]
posted by Amy, on January 22nd, 2010
For me, it is a gut instinct that a woman, and those she chooses to include in the decision, should determine whether she carries an embryo through to birth. Does life start at conception? Maybe it does, but that life is not more important than the one that carries it. The life that chooses whether [...]
posted by Melissa Bartell, on January 22nd, 2010
Today is the 37th anniversary of the landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, which granted women the right – and access – to safe, legal abortion. It’s also the fifth annual NARAL Pro-Choice America “blog for choice” day, in which bloggers are asked to post about reproductive freedom, pro-choice activism, or anything else related to [...]
posted by scott_grey, on January 21st, 2010
This letter from ‘Satan’ to Pat Robertson is traveling like wildfire around the Internet – perhaps because he has offended so many people with his latest comments about the tragedy in Haiti. As posted by Lily Coyle to the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Dear Pat Robertson,
I know that you know that all press is good press, so [...]
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