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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.
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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.
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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
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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.”
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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.”
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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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hristian broadcaster Pat Robertson, who is
politically associated with efforts to dis
mantle the National Endowment for the Arts,
has egg on his face following news his Regent
University received NEA grant money, accord
ing to the Virginian-Pilot.
T he mid-July report reveals the university
was awarded a $1,000 grant from the Virginia
Commission for the Arts, which counted
$523,000 of NEA money among its $3.4 million
grant pool for fiscal year 1997-98. The student-
produced film that benefitted from the grant
noted funding from both the state group and the
NEA in its credits.
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.”
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Circling high above the 2,500-person crowd,
a small plane dragged a banner that read,
“Homosexuality is sin,” reports the C apital
Times.
T he airborne banner follows a billboard
campaign by Wisconsin Christians United,
which purchased space on five billboards to
carry messages defaming gay men and lesbians.
The group— whose director Ralph Ovadal had
indeed promised to deliver a surprise to the July
1 9 rally— aims to recriminalize homosexual sex
in Wisconsin.
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