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What to put in the Salvation Army
kettle? |
| THE SALVATION ARMY:
Discrimination, Donations, and the Kettle Campaigns
An Alternative from Equal
Partners in Faith - http://www.us.net/epf/Coupon.htm
a press release from Equal Partners in Faith
(November 6, 2001) - The Salvation Army, the nation's
largest charity, is at the forefront of the news for rescinding a
decision allowing regional divisions to extend health insurance benefits
to the domestic partners of its employees. Before changing its mind, the
Salvation Army had claimed that the policy decision to provide extended
health insurance benefits to domestic partners, including those of the
same sex, was based on "moral and ethical reasoning". (See our
EPF Press Release at http://www.us.net/epf/pages/SalvationArmy2.htm).
Many progressive organizations have responded with a "boycott"
of the Salvation Army, putting "fake" dollars and notes into
kettles rather than money which would have gone to help the poor and
homeless. Additionally, certain Religious Right organizations have vowed
to match the fake bills with real money.
While each individual must follow her or his own conscience, Equal
Partners in Faith would like to offer an alternative to the fake dollars
and boycotts. Equal Partners in Faith has designed a coupon which
promises money to the Salvation Army, when, and only when, they stop
discriminating against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender
individuals in employment, and grant domestic partnership benefits to
same sex partners of employees.
This effort promises to give money rather than takes it away, to reward
rather than punish. The coupon is available for downloading and printing
at http://www.us.net/epf/Coupon.htm.
Please join us in this effort to see the Salvation Army become a
non-discriminatory employer by promising to give money when they truly
do make a "moral and ethical" decision to treat all people
equally.
Equal Partners in Faith is a national network of religious leaders and
people of faith committed to equality and diversity based in
Washington DC, that affirms and defends the equality of all people,
regardless of religion, race, ability, gender, sexual orientation or
gender identity, and actively opposes the manipulation of religion to
promote inequality and exclusion. Join us and help us promote a more
inclusive vision of religion and society. http://www.us.net/epf/SupportEPF.htm
Equal Partners in Faith
5 Thomas Circle
Washington DC 20005
1-888-304-5831
1-202-797-0111 (fax)
website: http://www.us.net/epf/
email: epfnational@aol.com
Circulated by Laura Montgomery Rutt, Director |
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PVJ's
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Witherspoon members and others can gather to exchange news and
views. Mitch and a few others have posted bits of news, both
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created
this new blog for Voices of Sophia, introduces it:
After fifteen years of scholarship
and activism, Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the
voices of feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy,
students, exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers
and devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God
in whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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John Harris’ Summit to
Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical
reflections on everything between summit to shore, including
kayaking, climbing, religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology,
politics, culture, travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New
York City and the Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive
New York City Presbyterian Pastor. John is a former member of the
Witherspoon board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian
Church in Flushing, NY. |
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John Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently
serving as pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton,
Tenn., blogs about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized
and disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and
lightening up. |
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