CNN Features Anti-Gay Bill Donohue of the Catholic League

CNN has been giving airtime to Bill Donohue of the ultra conservative Catholic League to spew misinformation and blame directed at the gay community for the church's sex abuse crisis. Mr. Donohue has been on shows such as Larry King and Rick's List arguing that there is a "homosexual problem" in the church.



Mr. Donohue has been dominating the time devoted to this subject matter and flat out lying in order to divert attention away from the real issue at hand which is child abuse at the hands of pedophile priests and the massive cover up by the Catholic Church. The assertion that homosexuals are more prone to molest children is reprehensible and dishonest. All studies show that the majority of sex offenders identify as heterosexual males.

Demand that CNN stop giving airtime to the anti-gay lies of Mr. Donohue by using their contact form.

Activists to Protest at Chicago Cathedral for Freedom to Marry

At 10:30 AM on Freedom-to-Marry Day 2010 – Sunday, February 14, Valentine’s Day – the Gay Liberation Network will host an informational picket of Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral, 735 N. State Street, to highlight the role the Church’s leadership has played in promoting inequality.

H/T to Planetransgender.

Rainbow Sash Movement Events for Justice on Behalf of LGBT Catholics

The Rainbow Sash movement is an organization committed to engaging in dialogue about human sexuality and the dignity of LGBT people within the Catholic Church. The group will be participating in the National March for Equality in Washington D.C. Oct 10-11th and has a series of events to push their agenda forward.

Events Sat Oct 10th Morning/Afternoon

Event at St. Matthew the Apostle Cathedral
1725 Rhode Island Avenue, NW,
Washington, D.C.

11:00 AM Ecunmenical prayer service outside of the Cathedral.

12:15 PM Gather within the Cathedral to pray for the National Equality March and to wear a rainbow sash in solidarity with LGBT Catholics.

Events Sat Oct 10th Evening/Night:

Vigil of Light 8-9pm in front of the White House to remember those who have passed away due to HIV/AIDS. The vigil is also to remind the administration not to forget the LGBT community and those with HIV/AIDS in the current health care debate.

Events Sunday Oct 11th:

March will kick off at 12 Noon. Marching Gathering space TBA

For further information or to get involved please email us at contact@RainbowSashMovement.com.

Demonstration Against Pope's Anti-Gay Policies in London

An event billing itself as the "London Demo for a Secular Europe" will be protesting over the pope's interference on gay rights, women's rights, gender equality, and secular rights will march through central London on Saturday.

Saturday's protest, which starts at 2pm outside the Natural History Museum and ends up at the Italian Embassy in Grosvenor Square, is in support of a simultaneous protest taking place in Rome, which is demanding that the Vatican end its interference in Italian politics.

CONTACT INFO
Marco Tranchino - marco.tranchino@gmail.com - 07806647903
Serena Bassi - serena.bassi@googlemail.com - 07796891091

Five Vigils Planned Today in Front of Catholic Cathedral's Nationwide

Dignity USA, New Ways Ministry, and Call to Action are holding 5 vigils in different cities across the country to protest the Vatican's position to not support a U.N. resolution to decriminalize homosexuality. The legislation is trying to make it illegal to imprison or execute people based on sexual orientation. The vigils will be held at various Catholic Churches listed below.

Boston, MA

6:30 PM Eastern Time
Holy Cross Cathedral
1400 Washington Street
Boston, MA
Contact Person: Rocco Pigneri, 617-421-1915, dignityinfo@dignityboston.org
Directions: http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/cathedral/directions.html

Dallas, TX

5:30 PM Central Time
Cathedral Guadalupe
2215 Ross Avenue
Dallas, TX
Contact Person: Jon Garinn, 214-621-9530, garinns@sbcglobal.net
Directions: http://www.cathedralguadalupe.org/about/directions.cfm

New York, NY

12:30 - 1:30 PM Eastern Time
Fifth Avenue & 51st Street (in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral)
New York, NY
Contact Person: Jeff Stone, 646-418-7039, jefastone@aol.com

San Francisco, CA

5:00 - 7:00 PM Pacific Time
Pink Triangle Memorial Park
Castro & Market (near the northwest corner)
San Francisco, CA
Contact People: Jim McGarry or Kathy Curran, kathycurran@yahoo.com

Seattle, WA

4:45 - 5:30 PM
St. James Cathedral
804 Ninth Avenue
Seattle, WA
Contact Person: Leo N. Egashira, 206-723-4759, legashira@yahoo.com
Directions: http://www.stjames-cathedral.org/Main.htm

Hold Fox News Accountable for Gay-Baiting

On the front page of the Fox News website there is an article titled "Sex Rights Brawl Slams Vatican." This is in reference to the recent protesting over the Vatican's decision to oppose a U.N. global decriminalization legislation which opposes imprisonment and the death penalty for gays.

This is not a "sex rights" issue, this has nothing to do with sex, people are being imprisoned and killed due to homosexuality regardless of whether they were discovered engaging in sexual relations or not. This has to do with human rights and human dignity. This has to do with right not to be imprisoned and executed based on ones identity.

Under that article is another titled:
"Vatican Sucked Into Sex-Rights Culture War" it seems Fox News has sex on their mind, even though the issue here has nothing to do with sex.

The two articles below that have zero to do with the U.N. legislation and are just further used as a fear tactic to make gays seem radical, outlandish and potentially morally reprehensible. The articles are titled "Same-Sex Marriage Backers Urge Workers to 'Call in Gay'", "Group Plans 'Pink' Christmas: Two Josephs, Two Marys."

It is wrong and unfair of Fox News to misrepresent the truth and to gay-bait.

Tell them to be "Fair & Balanced" on issues pertaining to gay rights.

Click here to contact Fox News.

Catholic Church Against Making Gay Death Penalty Illegal

The Catholic Church a body that has been staunchly opposed to the death penalty does not want to include international protections by the United Nations for gay people who face death penalty charges in countries where homosexuality is illegal. The Vatican is voicing opposition and plan to go against the French proposal that is introducing this piece of human rights resolution.

"This week the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations, said the Holy See would oppose a resolution that would protect gays from being killed, just because they are gay because it would "add new categories of those protected from discrimination" and could lead to reverse discrimination against traditional heterosexual marriage.

The French resolution, scheduled to be proposed this week, recommends protecting Gays and Lesbians from being jailed or killed because of their sexual orientation and is being introduced to the UN on behalf of the European Union.

But Archbishop Celestino Migliore said, if adopted, the resolution would create “new and implacable discriminations," and also said that states which do not recognize same-sex unions as 'matrimony' will be pilloried and made an objects of pressure.

However, the French resolution, which is supported by all 27 members of the European Union, says absolutely nothing about gay marriage; it is about ending jail and death penalty sentences gays yet face in more than 85 countries including Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen where you can still be killed for being gay."(LGR)

This is so disgusting and hypocritical of the Church. They are against the death penalty but don't want to be on the record opposing it for gays and lesbians?

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