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DignityUSA DATELINE
Volume 11, No. 2
February 2002
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Keeping you informed TABLE OF CONTENTS Board of Directors’ First Meeting of the New Year |
Board of Directors’ First Meeting of the New Year
On Sunday, January 13, 2002 the board of directors met by
teleconference. Topics of discussion included our upcoming first national
election, as well as reports from other board committees.
Proposals for the 2005 convention will be reviewed by the board at our spring 2002 meeting. Look for details in our may dateline.
Director Linda Rieder reported that a Parents & Friends Advisory Board is in the planning stages to encourage greater participation of potential non-gay supporters.
Dignity/Outreach
Executive Director Marianne Duddy reports that she and our very talented Chris Connors (Dignity/Boston) will be conducting a workshop on Catholic gays & lesbians in song & story. What makes this particularly significant is that the workshop will be given at a Catholic school.
Dignity Joins Gay Days at Disney!
Join your Dignity Family and Friends for Gay Days at Disney May 28th through June 2nd in Orlando Florida. Visit our web page for travel arrangements and details at www.dignityusa.org/disney.html. Direct any questions or comments to info@dignityusa.org
"We Shall Not Be Silent"
This is the theme for 2002 as previously announced in the
Dec 2001 edition of the Dateline. DignityUSA is moving forward
with plans for the first two regional conferences for 2002.
We Shall Not Be Silent:
Conferences for GLBT Catholics, our Families, Friends and Supporters
sponsored by DignityUSA
April 12-14, Crockett Hotel, San Antonio, TX
Keynote Speaker: Sister Jeannine Gramick, SLMay 24-26, Hyatt Hotel, Buffalo, NY
Keynote Speaker: Edwina Gately
Each conference will offer opportunities for prayer, education, networking, as well as the chance to dialogue with leaders of DignityUSA. For more information, visit our website at www.Dignityusa.org.
Plan now to attend. These will be great opportunities for the Dignity family to gather and embrace our future together as family.
Love is in the air
Have you and your partner had a Holy Union Ceremony through your local Dignity Chapter? If so, congratulations! DignityUSA wants to record your ceremony in the National Couples Registry!
The National Couples Task Force introduced the Registry, as well as the Couples Ministry Resource Guide at the 1995 Boston Convention. The Registry was established "to support and validate committed relationships" and
"is documentation that we, as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, do have and desire long-term monogamous relationships that are consonant with Christ’s teaching, Christian values, and are loving, life-giving, and life-affirming."
—Couples Ministry Resource Guide
There are five basic guidelines set forth in the Resource Guide that are required for a couple to register, which we ask a chapter officer or representative to verify with a signature. This keeps our registry accountable. If you and your partner have had a Holy Union but it did not satisfy the guidelines, we suggest and encourage you to use the occasion of an anniversary to have a recommitment ceremony that satisfies the guidelines, thereby qualifying you to register.
If you would like to register your Holy Union with DignityUSA, please complete the form found in your Chapter’s copy of the Couples Ministry Resource Guide and mail or fax it to the national office. For more information on the National Couples Registry and the Couple Ministry Resource Guide and a copy of the form please visit our website at www.DignityUSA.org or call DignityUSA at 800-877-8797.
Congratulations…
for many years of service:
- Dignity/Vermont — 8 years
- Dignity/Austin — 23 years
- Dignity/Richmond — 26 years
- Dignity/Dallas — 27 years
- Dignity/Milwaukee — 27 years
- Dignity/San Francisco — 29 years
Calling all chapters.Send all noteworthy information regarding your chapter activities and we will highlight them here in the Dateline. You may email your newsworthy notes to the Dateline editor at ptmcarron@cox.net |
Chapter’s Corner
The president of our Dignity chapter in San Diego was called upon to speak before the city council in January. The subject was the renewal of the Boy Scouts of America lease of land from the city. Along with many other glbt leaders in the community the case was made that the Boy Scouts of America are in violation of the city’s policy of inclusive treatment. The lease was renewed in spite of the efforts to prevent this from happening. Nonetheless Dignity’s voice was not silenced.
The Dignified Self
A unique study
DignityUSA is the subject of a study which appears in the most recent edition of the Social Psychology Quarterly, 2001 Volume 64 No. 4.
Dr. James C Cavendish & Dr. Donileen R Loseke, assistant professor & professor of sociology at the University of South Florida, co-authored the study entitled: Producing Institutional Selves: Rhetorically Constructing the Dignity of Sexually Marginalized Catholics.
Dr Cavendish & Dr Loseke explore how apparently contradictory identities can be reconciled rhetorically. The source materials for the study are DignityUSA Journals published between 1997 & 2000.
Give the gift of DignityWhy not give a gift membership in DignityUSA? Your loved one will receive a card noting the gift you've given, a full year of the DignityUSA Journal, and membership in the premiere organization of GLBT Catholics, our families and friends. Visit the DignityUSA website, email us or call for more details. |
DignityUSA.org
Our highly praised website is about to get even better! Soon there will be a nifty search tool that will make it easy to find anything anywhere on the website. Drop down menus will also be added. Keep visiting.
Dignity Vision Statement
DignityUSA envisions and works for a time when Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Catholics are affirmed and experience dignity through the integration of their spirituality with their sexuality and, as beloved persons of God, participate fully in all aspects of life within the Church and Society.
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