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jMSt MÄ-august2Û.2M4 rTTHTTOTîlnewsbriefs Injured? ...Call me Free Consultation No Fee Unless You Recover Hala Gores, P.C. Proudly serving our community since 1989 in personal injury claims including: • Auto & Motorcyle Accidents • Bicycle & Pedestrian Accidents • Medical Malpractice • Wrongful Death • Defective Products • Insurance Claims You Deserve I 'till Compensation for: Attorney at Law 503/295-1940 12th Floor, 621 SW Morrison Portland Integrity, • Pain & Suffering • Medical Expenses • Lost Earnings • Property Damage • Car Rental Experience ^Results World Beat Rock Soul Womens Oldies Jazz Folk Gospel Cajun Country New Age Bluegrass Soundtracks Musicals Lounge Big Band Comedy Reggae Spoken Word and more... EAST PORTLAND • 32nd & E Burnside St. • 231-8926 NW PORTLAND • 23rd & NW Johnson • 248-0163 PARTY SMARTER review session from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Aug. 29 at the Friends Meeting House, 4312 S.E. Stark St. Organ queers with every aspect (if creating family, preg izers will spend time developing responses to key points made by opponents of marriage equality. nancy and parenthood. She and her partner, Unlike past anti-gay initiatives, this year’s Colleen, have three children. campaign is well-financed. The Defense of Mar riage Coalition reportedly will spend at least $1.5 To register contact Susan Moray at 503-230'2831 million to support Ballot Measure 36, which or smoray@qwest.net. For more information visit would write marriage inequality into the Oregon www. maianudwifery. com. Constitution. According to strategist Glenn Stanton, the anti-gay (organization is following a well-researched uakers ppose plan and using a collection of lines and arguments arriage iscrimination that “works best in the many public debates” it has ultnomah Monthly Meeting, a Quaker engaged in on this issue. “These sound bites have congregation in Portland, released posi also been tested by fix us groups and rated very strongly, ” he says. tion statements Aug. 2 opposing Ballot Mea The session will examine four statements that sure 36, which would amend the Oregon Con the coalition’s research reveals are persuasive: stitution to han same-sex marriage. • Same-sex families always deny children Portlands Quaker congregation has recog either their mother or their father. nized same-sex marriages since 1989. It now • Same-sex family is a vast, untested social wishes to avoid the harm that legal discrimina experiment with children. Where does it stop? tion and homophobia inflict upon families. How do we say “no” to group marriage? “As a community of faith, we cannot stand by • Schools will be forced to teach that the and watch some of the marriages under our care homosexual family is normal. face discrimination simply because of their sexual • Churches will be legally forced to perform orientation,” clerk Tim Cnimp said. “We have been troubled that the proponents of such a con same-sex marriages. Participants will practice responding to these stitutional amendment have claimed to represent concerns, reflect on what works and what does not ‘communities of faith.’ We also are a community work, share stories about recent speaking opportu of faith, and we deplore any effort that would write discrimination into the Oregon Constitu nities and exchange information about events in tion. Nor can we accept that the religious beliefs Oregon. Organizers encourage attendance from people who are interested in public speaking or of some be written into law that affects all.” have conversations with family and neighbors Love Makes a Family was founded as a direct result of Quaker dialogues about sexual orienta about this subject. tion, family and marriage. Although a secular group, it continues to reflect Quaker values of For more information contact Cecil Charles Prescod at 503'228'3892 or cecil@lmfamily.org. equality, nonviolence and openness. “Marriage is about love, integrity and family values,” executive director Bonnie Tinker says. egal cholars nnounced "It is important that we talk to our family, quity Foundation has announced the recipi friends and neighbors about the role our mar ents of the 2004-2005 Bill and Ann Shepherd riages play in expressing commitment and build Legal Scholarship: ing community stability. We can only do this by • Connie Lukes of Northwestern School of honestly sharing our stories, not by going to war Law at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, who with those who disagree with us.” Tinker recognizes many queers are suspicious was the driving force behind two gay fathers assert ing their rights in September 2003 when Portland of religion. “It is important that we recognize Public Schools allowed the anti-gay Boy Scouts of the need for healing around religion," she says. "Healing occurs when people of faith step for America to recruit on campus. The policy review process that she helped them instigate is ongoing. ward to support marriage equality.” • Geoffrey Bosmans, also of Lewis & Clark, who has been a board member of the Oregon Gay For more information visit and Lesbian Law Association for two years. www.multnomahfriends. org. • Rebekah Heilman of Rutgers University Schwl of Law in Newark, N.J., who maintains a staggering volume of volunteerism in the sexual ession eaches ow to minorities community while keeping up with her peak bout arriage law studies. The fund provides $4,000 for third- and fourth- s part cif its continuing effort to empower peo ple to talk with others about same-sex mar year law student-activists dedicated to donating part of their legal expertise to fighting bigotry and riage, Love Makes a Family will hold a speakers’ Continued from Page 7 Q M M L Because its about more than HIV www.man2manpdx.us The Outreach Prevention and Education Program at Cascade AIDS Project 1-800-223-Al DS www.cascadeaids.org S A E S S over :s a I O D T A H M PDX1 From left, Mitch Santine Gould, Peg Morton, Leonora Kent, Tim Crump, Bonnie Tinker and Greg Berleman Thompson announce the Quakers* opposition to marriage discrimination Aug. 2
