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DignityUSA Board Member Leo Egashira and Executive Director Marianne Duddy-Burke are quoted in this article from The Stranger that explores Catholicism and marriage equality in the state of Washington.

February 14, 2012

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Dignity/Washington, DC President Testifies on Maryland Marriage Equality Bill

Allen Rose, President of Dignity/Washington, DC, the largest Chapter of DignityUSA,  testified on the Maryland Civil Marriage Protection Act of 2012 on February 10, 2012. Below is a transcript of his testimony.

Thank you, Chairman Vallario, Chairman Hammen and the members of your respective committees, for the opportunity to testify today in support of The Civil Marriage Protection Act of  2012.  This legislation is right and just.

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Equally Blessed applauds marriage equality legislation in Washington

ANOTHER CATHOLIC GOVERNOR SIGNS MARRIAGE EQUALITY INTO LAW

Equally Blessed says Catholic teaching compels support of policies that advance common good

Equally Blessed, a coalition of Catholic groups that support equality for LGBT people in the church and wider society, released this statement on the signing of marriage equality legislation in the state of Washington:

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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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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 19, 2012: SEVENTH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR
Isaiah 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25
II Corinthians 1:18-22
Mark 2:1-12

Today's gospel passage presents us with the first of five consecutive conflict stories: narratives in which Jesus or his disciples say or do something. The "good folk" immediately object. Then Jesus says or does something to resolve the conflict.

In this particular pericope, Jesus creates a conflict by assuring the paralytic, "... Your sins are forgiven." The scribes quickly demand to know, "Why does this man speak this way? He is blaspheming. Who but God alone can forgive sins?"

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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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