Word: civilizing
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...this: my relationship with past White Houses was that they arrested me for protesting. With this one, they've reached out to us to serve on transition teams. We're on the innovation and civil society team, the faith-based office, of course, but [we're also involved in] a lot of issue areas - foreign policy and criminal justice. None of us want to go into the Administration. We're being faithful to our own religious and prophetic obligations to challenge the powerful. But they are reaching out to us. (See Who's Who in Barack Obama's White House...
...where they're headed. And the possibility the book talked about looks much more possible now. I predicted a wider, deeper agenda, and it's happening now. When the National Association of Evangelicals fired Rich Cizik [who said he had shifted his views to support the idea of civil unions], they fired their future. The shift wasn't caused by the election, but it was revealed in the election...
...homosexuality as the greatest threat to marriage and family. Now, they care about marriage and family - this generation is really challenging the hook-up sexuality of their peers. But most of them favor some sort of protection for gay people and many are supportive of the idea of civil unions...
...pictures of the civil rights movement from Emmett Till to Barack Obama...
...Despite reports that she is not supportive of gay marriage and her earlier position that she supported only civil unions for gay couples, the Empire State Pride Agenda endorsed her appointment and said she assured the group that she "supports marriage equality for same-sex couples...