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Claim to Fame: As executive director of
Community of Welcoming Congregations,
helped pass the nondiscrimination and domestic
partnership laws in 2007 by providing testimony
to the Oregon Legislature. Married Multnomah
County’s same-sex couples in 2004.
So They Say: “Anti-gay preachers who try to pass
off their bigotry as
‘biblical truth’ or
‘Christian values’
need to be called
out. There are no
good biblical ar
guments against
being
same
gender loving.”
(Sept. 29,2008)
Who’s Next:
Valerie Sillman, a Community of Welcoming
Congregations intern with a “sophisticated under
standing of political organizing in the faith commu
nity and the power of language.”
The Rev. Tara Wilkins has been active in the
peace and queer civil rights movement since com
ing out in her 20s. The Community of Welcoming
Congregations, founded in the ’90s, leapt further
into relevance when it supplied clergy to conduct
the briefly legal same-sex marriages in Multnomah
County. The organization has since added its
100th member congregation and affiliated orga
nization in Oregon.
The Community of Welcoming Congregations
also raised the conversation about faith and gen
der at the National Transgender Conference in
2006, with the next one in April 2009, and the
Transforming Faith: Divining Gender program,
next scheduled for August 2009.
Wilkins is applying for a summer program at
the San Francisco Theological Seminary to earn
a doctorate of ministry.
BOimiETINKER
Claim to Fame: Founding director of Bradley-
Angle House and
founding
chair
woman of the
National Coalition
Against Domestic
Violence.
So They Say:
“I think things will
heat up again as we
begin to tackle the
issue of same-sex
marriage. Let’s face it: We’ve come a long way, but
there’s still so much work to be done.” (May 3,1996)
Who’s Next: Khalil Edwards of Unity Project
of Oregon.
Bonnie Tinker, founder and executive director of
Uwe Makes a Family, has been organizing for a pro
gressive platform for as long as she’s been alive. As a
Quaker, she was active in the peace movement during
the Vietnam War. That led to her involvement in the
feminist movement, where Tinker attended a meeting
as founding chairwoman of the National Coalition
Against Domestic Violence, where the phrase “do
mestic violence” replaced “battered women.”
In 1993, she founded Love Makes a Family and
appeared on several television talk shows, including
20/20 and The Ricki Lake Show with her partner, Sara
Graham, and their three children.
The war in Iraq brought Tinker back to peace
demonstrations, and she was arrested for blocking
entrances to military recruiting offices and protest
ing the presence of a tank in the 2007 Rose Festival’s
Grand Floral Parade.
In the spirit of “changing hearts and minds,”
Tinker and others with Love Makes a Family
have attended the Oregon State Fair for the past
five years to speak directly with opponents about
family equality.