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NO IMPACT I "you feel | l w eightless , I like you're 1 w alking on the m oon."* Walking Running StairClimbing Crosscountry Skiing PENNSYLVANIA n Feb. 10, the Roman C atholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia formally con­ demned three proposed city ordinances that would grant health and pension benefits to same-sex domestic partners of city employees, Reuters reports. Calling the legislation “destructive to our city’s moral and social structure,” Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua urged Mayor Ed Rendell and the city council to reject the measures when they come up for consideration later this year. T he ordinances, which were introduced in November, would add the term “life partner” to the language of existing laws governing pen­ sions and other benefits, hirings and promo­ tions, and exemptions from the city’s real estate transfer tax. Bevilacqua called the terminology coded language that is being used “to promote and protect homosexual relationships.” Rendell reportedly supports the proposals. O TEXAS he executive board of the statewide Baptist General Convention of Texas voted Feb. 24 to disassociate itself from Austin’s University Baptist Church because of that church’s support of sexual minorities. “We cannot approve of churches endorsing homosexual practice as biblically legitimate,” Fort Worth pastor Charles Davenport, head of the committee that drafted the motion, told T he Associated Press. T he church has had a tenuous relationship with the convention since it ordained an open­ ly gay deacon in 1994. It also drew fire for spon­ soring Open Circle, a ministry for gay men and lesbians. T he motion asks University Baptist to remove any claim of affiliation with the con­ vention from its literature and Internet site. The convention also will no longer accept money donated from the church for missionary programs. University Baptist Pastor Larry Bethune said the congregation will likely do as the conven­ tion asks. 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