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On Marriage Equality
A viewpoint based on a news analysis of the political conventions in the late summer of 2004. Published originally in a different format September 8, 2004, in Windy City Times. Marriage equality, or was it something else?...more
Portraits of four relationships
February 22, 2004 By T. Shawn Taylor, Chicago Tribune business reporter Lee Schrank and Bill Franco, Rickey Sain and Jim Boushay Lucy Shumpert and Hurdie Styles, Mona Noriega and Evette Cardona...more
A New Legal Day Is Dawning
February 22, 2004 By T. Shawn Taylor, Chicago Tribune business reporter Two brides and two grooms get hitched at City Hall in San Francisco. More "I do's" are anticipated in May in Massachusetts, where judges are calling anything less than legal marriage for gays and lesbians "separate and unequal."...more
Creating Change 2001
Workshop presented by Resources Unlimited Foundation at Creating Change 2001. Hundreds of Practical Ideas and Techniques for sharing the leadership for improved advocacy. Some hows and whys to do that...more
Why do we have to keep talking about these things? By Marvin M. Ellison
June 13, 2001 As a gay man and Presbyterian theologian, my short answer is: We must keep talking because harm is being done, and this harm must be stopped. The harm is caused by injustice, and as Walter Brueggemann writes, "In biblical faith the doing of justice is the primary expectation of God"..more Back Home |