Warped Galaxies: Human Rights Campaign Clergy Call for Justice

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Human Rights Campaign Clergy Call for Justice

From the HRC website: "Clergy from every state in the nation will converge on Capitol Hill to raise public awareness of the need for congress to pass legislation combating hate-motivated violence and banning workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender Americans. Now is the time. Legislation to address hate crimes and employment discrimination will be moving in Congress this April. Americans need clergy to stand up for them now — and politicians need clergy to remind them of their moral duty to protect those who are most vulnerable."

I will be participating in this event, April 16th-17th, in Washington DC, representing Muslims for Progressive Values. (www.mpvusa.org)

More info on the Human Rights Campaign and the Clergy Call here: http://www.hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Religion4&CONTENTID=35223&TEMPLATE=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm

I'm honored to be one of the Muslims presenting on this day. It is such an important issue -- either human rights, civil rights, and civil liberties are truly for all, or we sanction discrimination based upon certain religious groups ideas of sin and immorality. Once we start down that slippery slope, it won't be long until we are back to sanctioning racial discrimination, religious bigotry, and ethnic profiling.

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Comments:

Bravo, Sister :) This is indeed a worthy cause. God willing, it will make a difference.

Ya Haqq!

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Anonymous : 8:38 AM

Thank you for your stand.

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Yusuf : 7:11 PM

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English Language Islamic Fiction. We need more of it. Lots more.
Pay a Teacher's Salary in Afghanistan. The Hunger site actually has a lot of worthwhile programs. You can find them all here .
Muslims for Progressive Values. My organization. We can always use donations, of time or money!
Human Rights Campaign for the glbt community
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
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MoveOn.org. The organization that has done the most, as far as I can tell, to pull the countries progressive side together.
Network of Spiritual Progressives. Working to reclaim religion and morality for the religious left.

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Wanda Campbell also known as Nochipa A very gifted poet and a gentle, compassionate soul. Nochipa and I are on the same page on sooooo many things
Writeous Sister Aminah Hernandez, she's got some excellent latino pieces and always has good writing info on her blog.
Sister Scorpion aka Leila Montour - Leila is a fount of energy, quirky humor, and bad attitude. She's also a talented poet.
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Louise Marley Another great writer. I think Louise is one of the best sf writers exploring faith themes.
Ink in My Coffee Devon Ellington (who has numerous aliases) who is also the editor of Circadian Poems. A truly inspiring woman with a seemingly endless supply of energy.
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Ramblings of a Suburban Soccer Mom Lara, another gentle soul, very thoughtful.
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