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Vatican Protest by U.S. Activists Banned by Police in Rome

Gay Italian Activists and Catholics Offer Assistance and Support

Laguna Beach, CA, December 26, 2000 — Shortly after a bloody confrontation between police and several thousand Italians protesting the Vatican visit of a right-wing Austrian extremist, a Soulforce advance team met with police officials in Rome to obtain permits for a nonviolent protest. According to Italian police, no demonstration of any kind is allowed in or near the Vatican City-state.

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Vatican Accused of Intefering in Lives of American Citizens

To: Dignity Chapters and Friends
From: Mary Louise Cervone, President DignityUSA
Date: December 17, 2000
Re: President's Email 0001-05: DignityUSA and Soulforce Appeal to Clinton

Soulforce and DignityUSA Appeal to President Clinton on Behalf of Gays

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Vatican Waging Holy War Against Sexual Minorities

U.S. Activists Will Take Their "Stop Spiritual Violence" Campaign to Rome

Laguna Beach, CA, December 5, 2000 — Today, Soulforce and DignityUSA leaders announced plans to take their nonviolent campaign against centuries of spiritual violence and anti-gay teachings of the Roman Catholic Church to the Vatican on January 5-6, 2001.

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Civil Disobedience and Vigils to Occur During National Conference of Catholic Bishops Meeting in November in D.C.

Washington, DC, October 19, 2000 - On November 12-14, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) individuals, and their families, friends and allies from all over the United States will join together in Washington, D.C. to protest the exclusionary policies of the Catholic Church toward GLBT Catholics, to ask the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) to STOP SPIRITUAL VIOLENCE against sexual and gender minorities, and support the inclusion of GLBT Catholics into all aspects of church life.

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104 Activists Arrested at Roman Catholicism’s National Shrine

Civil Rights Hero Rev. William Sloan Coffin Among the Jailed

Rev. Jimmy Creech: “Catholicism is Bigotry’s Primary Source”

http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/events/111600ev.htm

Compiled by GayToday

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Welcome to the New and Improved dignityusa.org

October 1, 2000 — DignityUSA is pleased to announce the launch of the new and improved DignityUSA website. The new site is the result of months of preparation and consultation between the officers of DignityUSA and the Web manager.

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Denver Archbishop Forbids Priests to Say Mass for Gays

August 9, 2000 — In a letter to the provincials of a number of religious orders active in the Denver area, Archbishop Charles Chaput has asked the leadership to "remove" members of their order "from ministry to homosexual persons immediately." The letter specifically mentions celebration of Mass for Dignity/Denver, which meets at a Presbyterian church.

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Gay Catholics Outraged by Pope's Comments on WorldPride 2000

Washington, DC, July 12, 2000 — Leaders of DignityUSA, the nation's leading advocate for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics, have expressed deep sadness and outrage over Pope John Paul II's recent comments that the WorldPride 2000 celebration in Rome was an "insult" to the Jubilee Year and to Christians, and that homosexuals act in ways contrary to natural law.

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DignityUSA Takes Action in Response to Silencing of Sister Jeannine Gramick and Father Robert Nugent.

"I choose not to collaborate in my own oppression by restricting a basic human right. To me this is a matter of conscience."

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Gay Catholics Saddened by Methodist Vote

Washington, DC, May 16, 2000 — Responding to votes by leaders of the United Methodist Church that called homosexual relations "incompatible with Christian teaching," forbade ordination of openly gay or lesbian clergy and prohibited same-sex union ceremonies, members of DignityUSA expressed sorrow, and pledged to stand with their Methodist brothers and sisters who work for change in the church policy.

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