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Parents Roll Up for White
House Easter Event
for the Anglican Commun
ion,
In spite of—or perhaps because of—
group said that such a trial
President Bush’s less-than-cozy relation
was necessary to reach a
ship with the queer community, this
“final determination” of what
year’s White House Easter Egg Roll
role, if any, gays and lesbians
included a contingent of gay and lesbian
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Gene Robinson, the Episcopal
church's first openly gay
bishop, is being threatened
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which was held April 17, the day after Easter.
Observers disagreed as to the extent to which the
The call for a trial is
merely the latest salvo in
what has been an extraordi
narily difficult and divisive battle within the world
wide
Anglican
Communion,
of which
the
Episcopal Church is a part. Lay Episcopalians for
“I don’t think this is a protest,” Jennifer
the Anglican Communion blames this strife on the
Chrisler, executive director of the Family Pride
“reckless pursuit of a gay agenda that is hostile to
Coalition, told The Associated Press. “Showing up,
Scripture and to the historic order of the church.
participating fully in an American tradition, show
“Our purpose is to demonstrate the gravity of
ing Americans that we do exist—that in our minds
unilateral [non-Communion] actions already taken
isn’t a protest."
to advance a gay agenda in our American church,”
Nonetheless, some felt that even “showing
the statement continued. “The homosexual thrust
Americans we exist” constituted unseemly political
is real, aggressive and largely influenced by a shad
grandstanding.
ow gay-lesbian-transgender hierarchy of bishops,
Also speaking to the AP, Mark D. Tooley of the
priests and laypeople. The most persistent cam
Institute on Religion and Democracy said, “I think
paigner for accelerating the gay agenda in the
it’s inappropriate to use a children’s event to make
Episcopal church is Integrity, a 30-year-old homo
a political statement.”
sexual activist organization believed to comprise
Portland’s Love Makes a Family joined with
much less than 1 percent of the national church.”
other organizations to bring more than 100 sexual
minority families to the White House event.
Participants wore rainbow leis.
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NGLTF Exposes Republican
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The office of first lady Laura Bush, which over
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
sees the event, issued a noncommittal statement
Policy Institute released a report April 4 that
the previous week to the effect that all families
exposes the dishonesty of attempts by leaders of the
were welcome to attend.
Republican Party to lure black voters based on
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The American Civil Liberties Union released a
for African
Americans to come “back home” to the GOP.
The book-length report compiles decades of social
Americans, compares the voting records of key
science research, the positions of the major child
Republican policy-makers in Congress to polling of
health and welfare organizations and government
African Americans’ top voting priorities and finds
data to show how children are hurt by restrictions
that Republican lawmakers have abysmal voting
on parenting by gay men and lesbians.
records on these issues.
With so many children in need of homes, laws
False Promises, authored by NGLTF policy ana
that exclude queers from consideration as adoptive or
lyst Nicolas Ray, shows that legislators with low rat
foster parents unnecessarily reduce the already in
ings on queer equality also receive low ratings from
sufficient p<x)l of available families, the book argues.
organizations that promote the rights of people of
The new edition includes a chapter debunking
color, including the National Association for the
Colored
misinformation being spread by opponents of gay par
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The report outlines the incongruity between
historic Republican strategies, including President
“On the whole, the law is improving for les
Richard Nixon’s “Southern strategy,” President
bians and gay parents and their children,” said Paul
Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queens” and President
Cates, co-author and director of public education
George H.W. Bush’s Willie Horton ads, all with dis
for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Project.
turbing racist undertones, and the GOP’s current
“Most states now recognize that it is wrong to use
push for African-American voters to “come home."
sexual orientation as an excuse to deny parents cus
The study suggests that the moral values rhetoric
tody and visitation, and many states now allow
espoused by many in the party is designed in part to
both partners in same-sex relationships to adopt
generate support by stoking homophobia in the
the children they are raising together."
African-American community.
Episcopalians Want Gay Bishop
Tried for Heresy
A group of Episcopalian laypeople have launched
Feingold Takes Stand
for Gay Marriage
a petition drive to force a church trial for Gene
Responding to a question posed at his Kenosha
Robinson, the church’s first openly gay bishop, as well
County listening session earlier this month,
as for the 35 bishops who endorsed him.
Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a likely contender
The orphan group, known as Lay Episcopalians
for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination,