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"People...cam e and spoke to the board, and
that had impact,” he says.
The advocacy team met Nov. 29 to finalize
funding recommendations. A total of $8,000
was earmarked to restore programs for sexual
minority youth of color, and $18,000 will go to
the Sexual Minority Youth Recreation Center,
which had been facing a budget deficit.
University of Pennsylvania and was an assistant
professor of mathematics at College of Notre
Dame of Maryland. Her articles have appeared in
numerous journals, and she has written or edited
six books on homosexuality including Building
Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Reality and the Catholic
Church and Voices of Hope: A Collection of Positive
Catholic Writings on Gay and Lesbian Issues.
The $25 workshop fee includes beverages.
Attendees are asked to bring a sack lunch.
Women for America and Focus on the Fami
ly. This comes after the exposure, earlier this
year, of a backroom deal to support President
Bush’s faith-based initiative in exchange for
permission to discriminate against gay, les
bian, bi and trans people.
BRO and other progressive groups across
the country are encouraging allies to contribute
“dollars” to the Salvation Army explaining
why discrimination is wrong, especially during
L esbian N un W ill
P resent W orkshop
ister Jeannine Gramick, an internationally
recognized Catholic advocate for gay and
lesbian equality, will bring her message to Port
land during a workshop from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Dec. 8 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church,
1244 N.E. 39th Ave.
She will speak about her work, the impact
of Scripture and theology as well as pastoral
concerns for gay and lesbian people. Her work
shop, “Waiting in Hope: Advent for Advo
cates of Gay and Lesbian People,” will include
presentation, discussion, reflection and prayer.
Gramick has ministered to the gay and les
bian community since 1971. In 1972 and 1973,
she co-founded the Baltimore and Washington,
D.C., chapters of Dignity, a national organiza
tion for Catholic sexual minorities.
In 1977, she co-founded New Ways M in
istry, a social justice center working for the
reconciliation of gay and lesbian people and
the Catholic Church. In 1999, the Vatican
permanently prohibited her from pastoral
work with sexual minorities.
Gramick holds a Ph.D. in education from
others and not promoting the national agenda
that includes discrimination.”
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and
Gays also is participating in the kettle cam
paign. And the Gay and Lesbian Alliance
Against Defamation is encouraging mainstream
media outlets to cover the controversy.
“That the Salvation Army does good work
and performs vital community services is not in
question,” says Joan M. Garry, G LA A D execu
tive director. “But by withdrawing basic health
care benefits from the partners and dependents
of its gay employees, the Army has made a
choice to associate itself with those who pro
mote anti-gay discrimination.”
To download the Salvation Army “dollars" insit the
Internet site mviv.basicrights.org.
K roeker R esponds
to R oundtable
B R O J oins
K ettle C ampaign
B
asic Rights Oregon is helping publicize a
nationwide campaign to let the Salvation
Army know that some potential donors won’t
be contributing to the organization as long as it
practices discrimination.
The Salvation Army’s Western Corpora
tion chose to rescind its domestic partner
benefits last month because o f pressure from
right-wing groups including Concerned
a season of giving. “Donors” are encouraged to
download the play money via the World Wide
Web, print the notes out and drop them into
the kettles located outside most retailers during
the holiday shopping season.
"It’s important to understand that while the
national Salvation Army has made some very
bad decisions, the people who are ringing the
bells and doing local work are not our enemies,
so please be kind to them,” says Roey Thorpe,
BRO executive director. “In most cases, they are
people motivated by the true spirit of giving to
How D O
O o rtla n d Police Chief Mark Kroeker has
responded to a list of suggestions submitted
Aug. 1 by the Sexual Minorities Roundtable.
The action was the result of a public forum held
in December 2000 after his old recorded anti
gay comments came to light.
“Steps taken...w ill serve to improve the
already strong partnership that exists between
the police bureau and the L G B T community,”
Kroeker wrote in a letter dated Nov. 13. “ I
propose that the organization work with the
Sexual Minorities Roundtable in implement
ing a 12-month plan that incorporates com
munity input as well as organizational design,
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