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 Help STOP THE CATHOLIC CHURCH’S ANTI-GAY CRUSADE: Please email the Pope via Cardinal Dolan, his chief envoy: and/or: St. Patrick’s Cathedral: [email protected] With the words: GLITTER, glitter, GLITTER, glitter, GLITTER Or Call: St. Patrick’s Cathedral: 212.753.2261 And say: Glitter, Glitter, Glitter, Glitter, Glitter. BACKGROUND: The Catholic Church is on full attack with its ANTI-GAY CRUSADE in America. And make no mistake: this is politics. The Activist Priest leading the political attack against gay Americans is Timothy Dolan, Last Saturday, the Pope rewarded Activist Priest Dolan with a promotion to Cardinal for his full-fledged anti-marriage equality and pro-DOMA onslaught – which recently went so far as to threaten President Obama with a holy war if he did not submit to the Pope’s will (see clips below). This Saturday, at 4 p.m., Timothy Dolan will host a mass in his own honor to herald his ascendency – on our backs – to higher office. Please join in the festivities, by sending an email or calling with the message: GLITTER GLITTER GLITTER GLITTER GLITTER By lobbying government to deny us our civil rights, the Church is breaching the fundamental social compact in America – by which we agree to create a safe haven for each of us – and all of us. Their religious freedom is based on this, and so are our civil rights. So this a GLITTER warning to LET GAYS BE. More info on the first 7 Crusades: Join action on FB here. ______________________________________________________ Timeline on Dolan’s Anti-Gay Crusade and Corresponding Promotions: FEB 23, 2009: DOLAN APPOINTED ARCHBISHOP OF NY – St. Patrick’s Cathedral. NOV 16, 2010: DOLAN PROMOTED TO PRESIDENT OF USCCB (vote 128-111) JUNE 2011: DOLAN LEADS CAMPAIGN AGAINST NY MARRIAGE EQUALITY http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2011/06/dolan-gay-marriage-bill-an-ominous-threat/ AUG 2011: DOLAN ON 60 MINUTES (i.e. anti-equality media campaign). http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20044758-10391709.html SEPT 22, 2011: DOLAN WARNS PRESIDENT OBAMA of “a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions” if he supports DOMA repeal. http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-09-23/gay-marriage-bishop/50528104/1 NOV 2011: DOLAN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCES PUBLIC POLICY FIGHTS NOV 2011: DOLAN ANNOUNCES ANTI-ME FIGHT IN OTHER STATES NOV 2011: DOLAN MEETS WITH OBAMA – OPPOSING MARRIAGE EQUALITY http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/obama-dolan-dialogue_n_1093679.html JAN 6, 2012: DOLAN NAMED CARDINAL BY POPE (Ceremony Feb 18, Rome). NYC Ceremony at St. Patrick’s Cathedral: SATURDAY FEB. 25th. 4 p.m. (tickets only). SEND GLITTER
 (No Ratings Yet) (Posted for: Tommy Thomas of “Tommy News”) -By Tommy News Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, who has led the Roman Catholic Sunday masses will then celebrate this elevation of church sanctioned hatred and homophobia against gays, womens rights, and against full civil rights equality including same-sex civil marriage. Dolan has even gone so far as to petition the President of The United States to take anti-gay action. We must protest. From our friend Tif: Timothy Dolan is the chief architect of the Pope’s anti-gay crusade in America. He arrived in NYC spewing homophobia rhetoric, and was quickly He has broken every basic social compact – by taking his church’s views into the political arena. He has violated the basic tenet of creating a safe space for all of us – all people and all religions – in America. From Truthdig: New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan is a man of the world in some Here, he takes up a disappointingly common rhetorical tool to explain the church’s aversion to gay marriage, asking Morley Safer, “Where would, then, the tampering stop? I mean, I love my mom. I don’t have the right to marry her.” Sigh. —KA Video Here: From The New York Times: Archbishop Dolan Condemns “Sexual Immorality” in Sunday Homily Archbishop and Cardinal-to-be Timothy Dolan gave a stern homily on morality on Sunday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, telling church attendees that sex outside of marriage is still a sin, despite what popular culture would have society believe. “The one who, with God’s grace and mercy, tries his or her best to be pure and chaste is often thought of not as a hero, not a saint, but as a freak in our culture today,” Archbishop Timothy Dolan said at St. Patrick’s, reported the Daily News. “The biblical teaching on sexual responsibility is countercultural,” Dolan continued to say that teaching abstinence is countercultural. Those who try to live according to the teachings of the bible including devout Catholics, he said, will face “ridicule and criticism.” Dolan called on priests to do a better job in guiding their parishes to live a virtuous life. He linked societal crimes, such as violence, sex crimes, disease and broken homes and divorce to “sexual immorality,” reported the Daily News. “The church has at times in the past, sadly, come across as, as some naysaying, puritanical nag, always giving a big ‘no, no, no’ to one of life’s greatest joys,” he said. Dolan is set to become cardinal in a ceremony on Feb. 18, 2012 in Rome. More: The Pope has called gay people “intrinsically disordered”, and his misguided homophobia works to surpress gays and women. Jesus never once mentioned homosexuality, and may have been gay or bi himself. In fact, Jesus said that gays as opressed persecuted people are Blessed! The Pope and Arch-Homophobe Dolan really need to read their Bibles. This is the word of Jesus, from the Sermon on The Mount. MATTHEW 5:10-13 Blessed are they which are persecuted 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 5:11 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. 5:13 You are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be salted? it is thereafter good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. That is the word of Jesus. The Archdiocese of New York is widely considered the spiritual heart of the American church. It counts about 2.6 million Catholics in a sprawling jurisdiction that includes includes Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island and several suburban counties. Timothy Dolan opposes Marriage Equality in New York, and has pledged to work to oppose marriage equality, persecute and oppress gays in New York and in places out of his jurisdiction. This directly contradicts the teachings of Jesus. The Pope and Timothy Dolan must learn what great harm is caused by their homophobia, which is defined as the irrational fear of, aversion to, animus or discrimination against gays, homosexuality or homosexuals. However, anti-gay hate speech leads directly to animus, bullying, hate crimes, depression, confusion, low self esteem, and suicide. We must protest. Now is the time. Ways to Protest: 1- Occupy The Church The message is simple, yet loud; Equal Rights for All. Sign suggestions: LET US BE Stop The Hate Let Gays Marry Church Homophobia Must End! Cardinal Dolan Hates Gays Gays are God’s Children Too Blessed Are The Gays Jesus Loves Me Too Vote For Civil Rights 2- Write, call, email, weform and Fax your elected representatives, newspapers and media outlets, and pass this message on to everyone in your address book. Get contact information here: www.congress.org 3- Write, call, email, webform and Fax your clergy, friends, and family 4-Write, call, email, webform and Fax Pope Benedict and Timothy Dolan’s Office Contact: Timothy Dolan email [email protected] or [email protected] More Here: http://www.archny.org/departments/ The Pope’s regular mailing address is: His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI email the Pope at [email protected] (English) or Call The Vatican Basilica Switchboard + 39 06 6982 More Here: MEDIA CALLING DOLAN “GAY HATING” & http://www.towleroad.com/2012/01/gay-hating-ny-archbishop-timothy-dolan-to-be-elevated-to-cardinal.html http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-york-anti-gay-archbishop-timothy.html More from Tif: Timothy Dolan TIMELINE: FEB 23, 2009: DOLAN APPOINTED ARCHIBISHOP OF NY – St. Patricks Cathedral. NOV 16, 2010: DOLAN PROMOTED TO PRESIDENT OF USCCB (vote 128-111) JUNE 2011: DOLAN LEADS CAMPAIGN AGAINST NY MARRIAGE EQUALITY http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2011/06/dolan-gay-marriage-bill-an-ominous-threat/ http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2011/06/archbishop-timothy-dolan-were-working-with-gov-cuomo-but-we-still-oppose-gay-m AUG 2011: DOLAN ON 60 MINUTES (i.e. anti-equality media campaign). http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-20044758-10391709.html SEPT 22, 2011: DOLAN WARNS PRESIDENT OBAMA of “a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions” if he supports DOMA repeal. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/timothy-dolan-issues-letter-to-obama-about-gay-marriage_n_976788.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-09-23/gay-marriage-bishop/50528104/1 NOV 2011: DOLAN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCE PUBLIC POLICY FIGHTS NOV 2011: DOLAN ANNOUNCES ANTI-ME FIGHT IN OTHER STATES NOV 2011: DOLAN MEETS WITH OBAMA – OPPOSING MARRIAGE EQUALITY http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/14/obama-dolan-dialogue_n_1093679.html JAN 6, 2012: DOLAN NAMED CARDINAL BY POPE (Ceremony Feb 18, Rome). (Here is what the Chicago folks did last week with their Cardinal Francis George: Please take action and pass this on to everyone in your address book.
In NYC Saturday night, February 4, 2012, approximately 60 LGBT grassroots activists* from a variety of groups united in common cause and elaborate demonstration to tell HRC: You do not speak for us. Starting at dusk, chanting voices filled Park Avenue as tuxedo-sporting HRC donors arrived at the Waldorf Astoria: “Hey Hey HRC. Where is our Equality?” — and — “Everyone pays their tax. Everyone but Goldman Sachs” – rang out repeatedly targeting the Gala’s corporate honoree. Up and down the block between 49th and 50th, a catwalk of activists paraded, picket-fashion-show style, sporting a shimmery 15 x 5 banner that read: SEEK FULL EQUALITY, big mylar letters spelling “HELP,” and a huge sign that read: “HRC is in BED with A SACHS Machine”. Occupy Wall Street locked it all together in what was truly an inspirational convergence of NYC’s grassroots, and beyond. A solidarity event was held in San Francisco at the Harvey Milk Camera Shop, now an HRC boutique, and motivated activists started petitions on Daily Kos and Change.org demanding HRC withdraw the Sach award. Blending costumes and poignant cardboard signs, the cacophony energized the night as the Queer OWS Caucus was joined by radical activists from Queer Rising and Queerocracy, and Radical Faeries and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence brought feathers and magic to the mix. Dubbed the Guerrilla Potluck, the action also got great advanced media coverage, including blogs like OutTakeonline, and several others, including the Advocate and TimeOut NY who called HRC for comment. The Queer OWS Caucus had three stated points. 1. It condemned HRC for honoring Sachs, 2. It called upon HRC to seek full equality by 2014, and 3. it demanded HRC create a transparent process, inclusive of the grassroots. Before the action, HRC issued this pithy retort suggesting its intention to never open the process to grassroots input: “We are fortunate to live in a democracy where everyone’s opinion counts.” The noblesse oblige attitude was noted by many, and helped fuel the intention, which surrounded the Waldorf as a sign of things to come. “They can tell us to eat cake all they want, but we want equality by 2014, and that means HRC needs to want it by 2012,” said one of the organizers. Flyers read: HELP. Help end LGBT Suicide, Abuse, Discrimination. Full Equality by 2014. Take the Pledge. Other chants included: “No HRC or Goldman Sachs! Civil Rights Now!” “Who’s in bed with Goldman Sachs? H R C!” “HRC Your Time is Near. Fake Inclusion Won’t Work Here!” Food was varied and included: homemade banana bread, vegan morsels, fruit salad and Sweethearts candies. The police tried to foil everything by illegally closing the public sidewalk and threatening arrest of peaceful law abiding protestors, totally reneging on our agreement with the LGBT police liaison. But we carried on parading around the building, across the street, and even inside the event, briefly. Please Take the Pledge for Full LGBT Equality (by 2014) (http://bit.ly/the2014pledge). Join Queer/LGBTIQA2Z OWS Caucus organizing, Sundays at 1pm, or on FB http://on.fb.me/QueerOWS. * The estimate of attendees was revised from 80 to 60 after further discussion. Action Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikcito/sets/72157629179220145/ HELP Flyer: Videos and interviews: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD96D5A169D97B663 Brief Action inside the Waldorf: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150789766948636 Pre-action media links: Change.org HRC/Sachs Petition (independent): http://www.change.org/petitions/hrc-theres-no-honor-for-goldman-sachs San Fran Solidarity Action (independent): http://www.facebook.com/events/339342696089267/ ####
QUEER OCCUPIERS DENOUNCE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
In contrast to the $650 a plate Gala, the Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Caucus will host a “Guerrilla Potluck” on the sidewalk outside of the prestigious hotel at 50th Street & Park Avenue from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Queer Caucus: 1. Condemns HRC for honoring Goldman Sachs, 2. Calls upon HRC to adopt a strategy of Full Equality by 2014, and 3. Demands that HRC create a transparent process that includes the grassroots. 1. The Queer Caucus condemns HRC’s decision to honor Goldman Sachs in a time of financial collapse caused by their unethical business practices and greed, and deplores the use of our cause and suffering for corporate public relations. HRC honoring Goldman Sachs at this time reveals all one needs to know about the corporate LGBT lobby, and its disconnect from the 99% and the LGBT people it purports to represent. 2. The Queer Caucus calls upon HRC to embrace the grassroots demand for Full Federal Equality by 2014 – the 50th Anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. After 60 years of struggle, there is still not a single federal non-discrimination law protecting LGBT Americans from discrimination. More incredibly, HRC, the corporate entity that controls our strategy, has not even filed a bill for equal non-discrimination protections under the civil rights laws for our community. To address this, the Queer Caucus calls on HRC to take The Pledge for Full LGBT Equality to seek and secure full non-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation and gender identify for all people. The right to be protected from discrimination secures a core liberty interest. And it is the duty of government to protect LGBT Americans from the harm caused by discrimination as a matter of public welfare, law and conscience, as it has for decades for all other oppressed groups. As HRC restrains the demand for equality, discrimination takes its insidious toll on LGBT Americans who suffer vast psychological harm rejected by their families and society, driven to suicide at 5 times the heterosexual norm by tormenting, minority stress afflictions, and lost hope. A whopping 40% of homeless youth identity as LGBT, 66% of Transgender people have been fired or not hired for a job, 60% of our youth are taunted and feel unsafe at school, and LGBT people are 6x more likely to have multiple mental stress disorders due to societal discrimination. “Homo/transphobia in America is a public health and economic emergency for our community” said Michael Tikile, an occupier and Duke University graduate. “We are not safe in school, work or housing. How are we supposed to live, pursue happiness or achieve economic equality?” 3. The Queer Caucus also demands that HRC open the process to transparency and grassroots inclusion. Currently, HRC operates under a closed, hierarchical system, controlled by a financial elite, insulated from grassroots input. Likewise, in Congress, Democrat House members Barney Frank, Jared Polis and Tammy Baldwin, keep the grassroots out of the conversation, protecting the DNC strategy from movement agitation and impact. With this structure in place, queer occupiers know that only a handful of privileged voices are setting the national queer agenda and strategy, defining what “LGBT equality” means and who our friends are. For example, HRC’s key sponsors includes a long list of big businesses that contributed to recent economic and environmental distress, including Citi Bank, Bank of America, Chevron, BP, Shell, Morgan Stanley, MetLife, Deloitte, Lexus, Prudential, and Ernst & Young. “With all of these companies, you’d expect the power to be on our side! But instead, our community is simply a tool and pawn in the political system” said Tanya Walker, an original occupier and tireless transgender activist. Simply put, the Queer Caucus demands equal non-discrimination protections under the 1964 Civil Rights Act because equality is the only true antidote to LGBT abuse – like it has proven to be for race, sex, national origin, religion, age and disability – long protected from discrimination by law. “Equality and non-discrimination are universal values that define basic human dignity” said Todd (Tif) Fernandez, a human rights lawyer and grassroots activist. “It is our civic duty as Americans to protect and respect the LGBT community immediately.” Please Take the Pledge for Full LGBT Equality (by 2014) (http://bit.ly/the2014pledge). Join the Guerrilla Potluck (http://on.fb.me/GuerrillaPotluck). Bring flashlights. Watch Potluck on Live-Stream Saturday: http://www.livestream.com/occupello Join Queer/LGBTIQA2Z OWS Caucus organizing, Sundays at 1pm, 60 Wall Street or on FB http://on.fb.me/QueerOWS. #### About the Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Caucus of Occupy Wall Street
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head of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, and the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which marshals the Church’s political activities.
New York, NY, February 1, 2012 – Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Occupy Wall Street, a caucus of the NYC based Occupy Wall Street movement, announced today that it will protest a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Gala honoring Goldman Sachs on Saturday February 4, 2012 at the Waldorf Astoria.
