Equality

Iron Jawed Angels: The Fight that Shouldn't Have Been

Posted November 21st, 2008 by Jared Wright
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When I hear people talking about “God-given rights,” I wonder why it always seems to take human bloodshed to secure those rights.

Iron-Jawed Angels (2004) vividly portrays the exhausting struggle that American suffragettes endured to secure a woman’s right to vote, and forces us to confront the inequality and injustices we tolerate—even propagate today.

14 October 2008

Holding the Church State Council Accountable

By Alexander Carpenter
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The Church State Council has still not addressed the issues raised about their use of several court cases in a current Recorder article and in its own communication to church members.

13 October 2008

Video | Adventists Talk About Why They Oppose Prop. 8

By Alexander Carpenter
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Thanks to some DIY work by some young Adventist filmmakers, here are some short interviews with Adventists discussing their religious liberty concerns with Prop. 8. To date, 630 folks have signed the petition, and over 500 people (there is some overlap) are members of the Adventists Against Prop. 8 Facebook site.

13 October 2008

Other Non-Biblical Marriages We Don't Criminalize

By Alexander Carpenter
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h/t to Stephen Eyer for sharing this NPR comment , by Annie Williams:

"When you cut through all the rhetoric, there is only one reason you would deny gay couples the right to marry: bigotry.

It is wrong for one group of people to deny basic civil rights to another group because they do not share your religious beliefs. And that is exactly what this boils down to: legislating religion.

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