Signers Ask Leader Not to Segregate Openly Gay Bishop Robinson at Lambeth in 2008 ******************************************SOULFORCE PRESS RELEASE: May 24, 2007For Immediate ReleaseContact: Paige Schilt, Director of Public Relations and MediaCell: 512-659-1771paige@soulforce.org****************************************** (Austin, TX) — Soulforce has launched an online petition asking the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to invite Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal […]
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U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada given opportunity to stand up for justice and equality in the face of statement by Anglican Communion
U.S. and Canadian churches issued moratorium and asked to explain their thinking on same-sex holy unions and consecrating bishops based on their sexual orientation ******************************************SOULFORCE MEDIA ALERT: February 24, 2005For Immediate ReleaseContact: Laura Montgomery Rutt717-278-0592 laura@soulforce.org****************************************** (Lynchburg, VA) – Today, primates of the Anglican Communion issued a statement that they want the U.S. Episcopal Church […]
Chicago Free Press Article: "Soulforce Protests Episcopalians"
July 5, 2000 Chicago Free Press (glbt)By Louis Weisberg, Staff writer The Episcopal Church (USA) became the latest Christian denomination to hold a public wrestling match with homosexuality when representatives of the church gathered in Denver July 5 for a 10-day convention. The 2.4-million-member ECUSA has an unofficial policy of allowing each diocese to decide […]
PlanetOut Article: "73 Arrests at Episcopal Demo"
PlanetOut News StaffWednesday, July 5, 2000 / 12:07 AM SUMMARY: For the third time this year, gays and lesbians get locked up to convince a major denomination not to lock them out of the church. The ten-day 73rd General Convention of the 2.4-million-member Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA) began July 5 in Denver, and gay crusader […]
Remarks Written for the Soulforce Press Conference, Denver, CO
July 4, 2000 GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCHThe Rev. Dr. George F. RegasRector Emeritus, All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA I.We are here today to say the debate is over. The fact that bishops, priests and laity are here in Denver at this General Convention to debate once again whether gay and lesbian persons are […]
Soulforce to Demonstrate at Episcopal Conference in Denver
JULY 4 PRESS CONFERENCE AT 1:15 FOLLOWED BY CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Demonstration to Cap off a Summer of Civil Disobedience and Arrests All Across the United States in Protest of the Exclusion of God’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Children MEDIA ADVISORYJune 26, 2000 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Laura Montgomery Rutt, Media CoordinatorCell: 717-951-7712 Laguna Beach CA […]