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15 With an Eagle Eye for the Best Home Loans, We can find the right one for You! Snipstead headed the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations from 1978 until his confession in 1992. T he association, which says homosexuality is a sin, was formed as an alter native to perceived liberal trends within the Lutheran Church. Snipstead’s wife, Leone, died of an A ID S- related illness a short time after her husband’s announcement. Let “Lagie ¡Home Mortgage ta^e you under their unrig. Bankruptcies & Foreclosures ♦ Complicated Borrowers Investment Properties ♦ Credit Problems 3% Down Programs ♦ Pre-opprovals for Purchase NATIONAL T ) aula Ettelbrick has been hired as the nation- 1 ai coordinator of Equality Begins at Home, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force officials say. T he July 16 announcement came on the heels of the mid-year meeting of the Federation of State Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Organizations, which further cemented plans for Equality Begins at Home, a campaign of pro-queer actions planned nationwide for March 1999. “T he Equality Begins at Home events will be a watershed moment for our movement. Never before have state organizations come together to organize a coordinated series of actions to advance [queer] equal rights," says Ettelbrick. -® * he Human Rights Campaign has solicited and received an apology from Green Bay Packers president Robert E. Harlan following a full-page anti-gay ad in the July 15 Washington Times showing Reggie W hite in his Green Bay Packer uniform, in violation of NFL policy. “As an organiza tion, we regret the use HUMAN or our uniform in the RIGHTS advertisement,” wrote CAMPAIGN Harlan. “Please accept FOUNDATION our apology.” According to T he Associated Press, a coali tion of 15 Christian groups paid for the ad, which carried the headline “Toward an open debate on homosexual behavior.” T n July 17, Amnesty International U S A announced two goals it hopes to achieve following a pledge from the Mertz-Gilmore Foundation to match an Amnesty investment of $100,000 during the next two years. W ith the new funds, Amnesty aims to “strengthen or create legal protections in the United States and abroad for lesbian, gay, bisex ual and transgendered rights," and to “promote grass-roots activism around the world that would protect people who are targets of abuse because of their sexual orientation or identity.” O Traipsing behind the July 18 parade, which garnered an estimated 24,000 spectators, were three anti-Disney activists carrying a banner reading “Disney has betrayed the American family," reports the Sioux City Journal. Apparently, Vermillionaires weren’t swayed. “This is fun for kids," said resident Debi Rollison. “If they have problem, 1 don’t think this is the place.” Ù hen Karen Lee wrote the winning essay that brought the Disney-sponsored Mickey’s Hometown Parade to her home of Vermillion, population 10,000, she probably didn’t expect to win a visit from the American Family Association as well. 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Regent’s public relations director says Robertson was unaware the university had taken money from the NEA and has asked uni versity officials to return it. O n July 15, Randy Tate, executive director of the Robertson-funded Christian Coalition, stated the NEA had “lost its moorings” during a speech to Congress requesting it privatize the arts. “True artistic expression flourishes through out the United States, funded privately, and on display in theaters, museums, art galleries and other public places,” said Tate, adding, “Let’s fully privatize the arts and end welfare for the artistic left.” C ▼ Let Our Family Help Your Family... find the Home of Your Dreams ! "We 8tart by Listening...to your hopes, to your wishes, to your dreams!'' V Our Home of the Month: QM ÄÜ ▼ *'• ▼ Incredible Cape Cod cottage w/.27 acre fenced yd w/fruit trees, greenhousel 3 bdrme, 1.5 bathe, family rm w/gas fireplace! New dining rm to die fori Central air, deck A hot tub, 90 MUCH MORE! Powerline # 2 0 5 me. 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