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...That's like asking me, 'Do I support black marriage, or white marriage?'" THE REV. AL SHARPTON, at the Human Rights Campaign candidate forum, after stating that he supports gay marriage while most of the other Democratic hopefuls hedged...
...drama teacher and a fund manager helped the rector trim hedges; an elderly parishioner spent the night before the funeral freezing lemonade and ice rings because the day of the funeral was to be sweltering. "Betsy and Chris would do anything for other people, and it was mutual," observed Rev. Nick Knisely. "That's where the outpouring came from, and that's what makes it so painful...
...June forum on the environment sponsored by the League of Conservation Voters and its California affiliate, several of them said they thought the Democrats would have to find a better way to frame the issues the Green Party cares about in order to win those voters back. Last fall, Rev. Al Sharpton was featured at a Green-backed alternative event to the U.S. Conference of Mayors gathering in Madison, WI, where he praised the Greater Milwaukee Green Party...
...legal activists--gay and conservative--saying the decision is a sea change? Partly because donations rise when emotions do. When the Rev. Jerry Falwell said in the New York Times that Thursday was "as bad a day as the court has had," you caught a whiff of his next funding pitch. Similarly, David Smith of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay political group, admits that there have been "only a handful" of sodomy prosecutions. "But," he notes brightly, "this decision provides momentum to our legislative work...
...protestors so much? Lay minister Philip Giddings, a senior lecturer in politics at Reading University, says the Bible is plainly against homosexual practice and should not be reinterpreted to pander to changing social mores. "The problem is we live in a pick-and-choose culture," he says. Adds Rev. Charlie Cleverly, rector of Oxford's St. Aldate's: "We feel we don't want to throw aside 2,000 years of traditional interpretation and practice without a really serious and careful debate." The fact that John says he has been celibate since 1991 - when the bishops famously stated that...