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posted by Scott Grey, on June 2nd, 2010
Sunday, June 6th, 2010 10:00am
Thandeka will take the pulpit at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff on June 6th and will join us for our after service discussion. In addition to teaching at Meadville Lombard Theological School, Thandeka is President of the Center for Community Values (www.the-ccv.org), and an affiliated minister at the UU [...]
posted by Dee Stofko, on February 8th, 2010
Send Clemency appeals arriving no later than February 17th to: Clemency Section, Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, 8610 Shoal Creek Blvd., Austin, TX 78757-6814 Attention: Henry “Hank” Skinner Case – #999143.
Watch/Read:
http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/jan/29/case-open/
http://www.texastribune.org/stories/2010/jan/28/dead-man-balking/
Please help by sending appeal letters. I believe this man is innocent!
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 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 Williams, 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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