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To MCC Pastors, leaders, congregations, and allies:

You are invited to attend a press conference celebrating the launch of NoWedge2012.com -- a campaign purposed to educate, inspire and motivate Black Americans and allies to be engaged in the 2012 election cycle. Specifically, this campaign will focus on educating voters on the strategy of organizations such as NOM which intentionally target African Americans in the interest of fracturing the progressive base on the single issue of marriage equality. Importantly, this divisive strategy seeks to appeal to voters conservative values on one issue while ignoring the broader platform of right wing policies such as:

The assault of voter ID laws in minority communities
Stand your ground laws, which negatively impact young Black men
The intent to repeal The Patient Protection and Affordable Care ACT
The Ryan Budget and its gutting of entitlement programs

This breakthrough campaign will also frame President Obama’s personal position on marriage equality as a call to fairness and justice guided by his faith and political sensibilities not an attempt to legally impose his evolution on communities of faith. It is paramount that we all get the facts and are well informed as the media has made much noise about the Black communities resistance to gay rights framed as civil rights particularly within the dominant Black church

Date: Thursday, May 17th
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: Covenant Baptist Church, UCC, 3845 South Capitol Street, SE,
Washington, DC 20032

Additionally, we invite you to sign on to a NoWedge pledge - http://nowedge2012.com/. This is a pledge that we will stand in solidarity.

Looking for Interested Folks

Are you interested in participating in a marriage equality forum discussing the status of marriage equality and how to become more involved? Please express your interest to Rev. Miller (revmillerjen@gmail.com).

Capital Trans-Pride 2012 (http://www.capitalpride.org/transpride)
The annual celebration of the Transgender community, its supporters, and its allies in our Nation’s capitol. Capital TransPride 2012 will take place Saturday, May 19, 2012. Capital TransPride is a signature event of Capital Pride, the annual LGBT celebration that takes place each June in Washington, DC. For more information about Capital TransPride, or to get involved, please contact us at transpride@capitalpride.org.

Black Pride (http://www.dcblackpride.org/default.htm)
Memorial Day Weekend - April 24th through April 28th, 2012. Since 1991, BLGPD has presented DC Black Pride (DCBP) annually. Each year, more than 25,000 men and women from all over the world attend DCBP and experience the great culture and history in the Washington, DC area. Attendees have come to expect only quality social and non-social events during the Memorial Day Weekend.

Capital Pride (http://www.capitalpride.org/)
May 30th through June 10th.

Capital Pride Interfaith Service - June 5 at Luther Place Memorial Church, 1226 Vermont Ave NW
Capital Pride Parade - June 9
Festival and Tabling - June 10

Immigration Equality
Immigration Equality is planning a number of initiatives to continue to build support for the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), a bill which would end discrimination against LGBT immigrant families. To that end, we are looking for LGBT binational couples who are interested in reaching out to their elected officials to push for the passage of UAFA. We are specifically looking for couples in the following states: NY, NJ, CT, MA, PA, and MD. If you know of a binational couple and they would be interested in participating in this work, please have them contact: Connie Utada (cutada@immigrationequality.org).

Marylanders for Marriage Equality - Maryland is now the 8th state in the nation, plus the District of Columbia, to enact such groundbreaking legislation as marriage equality. Yet our work is still not done. Learn about the upcoming campaign and what you can do to help ensure we protect marriage. Faithful voices will remain critical to protecting marriage equality as we go forward.

We know opponents of marriage are already working on efforts to repeal marriage equality. We remain committed to marriage equality as we were during the legislative efforts. Join us!

Thank you,
The Religion and Faith Team at the Human Rights Campaign

Are you interested in participating with a regular Healing Circle, a gathering to pray together and send healing energy to the people on our prayer list? This is being organized; please let Linda G., Harry G., or Diane H. know of your interest.

Are you interested in attending Capital Pride MCC pride coalition planning meetings on behalf of Open Door MCC? Please speak to Rev. Miller or Adam D. with your interest.

Donations of nonperishable foodstuff and gift cards from local major grocery stores and gas stations are always needed and welcome. (Please provide the receipt in case the cards have not been activated.)

Donations of personal toiletries are always needed and welcome. Donate toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, nail clippers, washcloths, or deodorant for packets to be given to folks in need. Please contact Corrine Bertram with interest or questions.

Coffee Hour Volunteers Needed
Like food? Like to help? How about joining our hospitality team. We are looking for help with coffee hour after service. Currently we need help with the second Sunday of the month. If you would like to do once a quarter or every other month etc. we will work with you.

For more Information please contact Diana Nauer 703-443-2704 home 703-772-8821 or reindeers10@yahoo.com

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