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Gay Catholic Leaders Celebrate Washington State Senate Approval of Same-Sex Marriage

Catholics Play Prominent Role in Bill’s Passage

Feb. 2, 2012. In the wake of the Washington State Senate’s vote endorsing same-sex marriage, DignityUSA applauds the leadership of Catholic legislators in getting one step closer to equality.

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Nominations are now open for 2012 Board Elections

Nominations are open for four (4) Directors-at-Large for a period of two years—October 1, 2012 to September 30, 2014.

Board members become part of the strong, dynamic, and supportive team that develops DignityUSA’s programs, ensures we have adequate resources to carry out our work, and sets strategic priorities for the future. We are currently seeking leaders with organizational development, marketing, fund-raising, or human resource management talents and experience. In order to ensure proportional representation, we are especially interested in members from the southern and western parts of the US, who are Latino/a, transgender, openly bisexual or allies of the LGBT Catholic community. 

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Gay Catholic Leader Reacts to Pope's Rant

Hear DignityUSA Executive Director in a wide-ranging interview with Emmy Award winner Charlotte Robinson on OutTake Voices.

http://voices.outtakeonline.com/2012/01/gay-catholic-leader-reacts-to-popes.html   

 In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with Marianne Duddy-Burke, Executive Director of DignityUSA, the nation’s foremost LGBT Catholic organization. Recent polls show high levels of support for LGBT people among Catholics yet the Pope and bishops continue to lead attacks on civil rights for gay people. In Pope Benedict’s 2012 outrageous New Year’s speech to diplomats from approximately 180 countries the Pope said policies allowing gay marriage “threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself.” We talked to Marianne about being Catholic and issues facing our LGBT community.

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DignityUSA Members in Connecticut Respond to Initiation of Courage Chapter

DignityUSA members Frank O'Gorman and Paul Scarbrough, both of Connecticut, are prominently featured in a Rainbow Times article about the Hartford Archdiocese's development of a Courage Chapter as a "ministry" to LGBT Catholics. To read this very comprehensive piece, please click on the link below. The article is made available with permission.

http://therainbowtimesmass.com/2012/01112012/ctabstinence.html

 

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Gay Catholics Reject Pope’s Statement Calling Same-Sex Marriage a Threat to Humanity

Boston, MA.  January 11, 2012. Leaders of the largest organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Catholics are reaching out to fellow Catholics who are hurt and angered by Pope Benedict XVI’s latest attack on the LGBT community. In a New Year’s speech to diplomats from approximately 180 countries on the importance of children, the Pope said policies allowing same-sex marriage “threaten human dignity and the future of humanity itself.”

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Dateline
February 2012 Dateline

Not only are we showing up in greater numbers for campaigns for equality, but when we engage in political advocacy we are increasingly present as fully ourselves, raising profound spiritual questions about the intersections of justice work, about caring for the most marginalized in our communities, and about how well we’re doing loving our neighbors as ourselves. Your efforts are at the heart and soul of our movement; I am personally and professionally beholden to you for your tena-ciousness and prophetic witness to the Source of the Divine in our work.

quote by Sharon Groves
Director of the Religion and Faith Program, HRC
in Lourdes Rodriguez's article "Sacred Work"

 

  

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FEBRUARY 5, 2012: FIFTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
Job 7:1-4, 6-7
I Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23
Mark 1:29-39

Scholars frequently point out that the vocabulary in the second half of today's Marcan gospel pericope is found in just one other place: Jesus' agony in the garden. We'll see there's a good reason for this.

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Quarterly Voice
4th Quarter 2011 QV - Quarterly Voice (WEB version)

" . . . knowing in my heart that it IS possible to be a Catholic and a lesbian . . . and knowing that without the work of Dignity countless GLBT Catholics (and straight Catholics for that matter) would not know this truth. And although I don’t label myself as a Catholic the way I used to, I still have an endearing fondness, a particular affection, for the denomination of my youth, and as such am still here on the Catholic side-lines, a bit war-weary, but still in the fight. In grief there is hope, in struggle there is hope, in God there is hope."

Laura Monroe, DignityUSA Editor
in "On Being"

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