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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’
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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