Community Meeting set with pride event planning

Type:	Meetings - Club/Group Meeting
Network:	Global

Date:	Saturday, January 16, 2010
Time:	3:05pm - 4:30pm
Location:	tba

Description

This is the second community meeting, in which I hope to build a local LGBT community group in the Eastern part of NC.

I hope the ECU LGBT student group and Pitt Community College group will get on board as well.

To work together in building a Local Community Center, however before this can happen we need to form a Local group.

Also at this meeting I hope their will be an interest in organizing and creating a Local Pride Event for 2010 in the area as well.

New Pride Meeting set in Greenville

Daniel A Orton is setting up a PittCC Pride those who are interested the meeting will be at the Tipsy Teapot, Thursday, October 15th from 5pm to 7pm!!

I wish him the best at this goal

Update 10/7


Daniel Orton has created a Facebook Event page for this meeting.. Click here to visit this page

PFlag Meeting to be held

Meeting: PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) will meet at 6 p.m. Sept. 29. For information, call 443-0345 or e-mail pflagrm@aol.com.

Mitchell Gold to Talk About his Book Crisis in Nashville NC

Mitchell Gold, Author/Editor, CRISIS

speaks on “Growing Up Gay in America”

Monday, October 12 – 7 p.m.

Reception to follow

Nash Arts Center, 100 East Washington Street, Nashville, NC

About the Speaker

Mitchell Gold is a successful businessman and editor of the book CRISIS: 40 Stories Revealing The Personal, Social and ReligiousTrauma of Growing Up Gay in America.This discussion is especially meaningful for educators, social workers, church leaders, elected officials and parents.

In l989, Mitchell Gold and his business partner, Bob Williams, founded a furniture company in Taylorsville, North Carolina. Today, Gold and Williams head a nationally recognized business with over 750 employees and a 700,000 sq. ft. factory with a family-friendly work environment that includes an onsite not-for-profit daycare center. Gold plays a major role in the national dialogue on gay rights. In December 2005, he established Faith In America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating people about the harm caused by the religion-based bigotry and prejudice used to justify discrimination against gay people. Gold, who served on the Board of Directors of the Human Rights Campaign for seven years, has received numerous awards. His book, CRISIS, published in 2008, is transforming minds and hearts across America.

This public event is hosted by PFLAG Rocky Mount

For more information: pflagrm@aol.com or visit www.pflag.org,

www.Crisisbook.org, www.FaithInAmerica.com

Let’s embrace acceptance, tolerance, inclusion, and understanding!

A very Disappointing Day

Many should know why, if you are one of the few who don’t, email me to find out why.

 

Let’s embrace acceptance, tolerance, inclusion, and understanding! 

 

Letter: Same-sex marriage an equal rights issue

This is from the Reflector Greenville's Newspaper

Thursday, August 27, 2009

My concern on the same-sex marriage issue is the separation of church and state. Whether a religion allows or disallows same-sex marriage in the realm of its religious authority is appropriate. However, the states' laws, including those on marriage, should be based on the rights of and fairness to all citizens without consideration for any lawmaker's religious affiliation or beliefs.

To address a comment in the Aug. 3 Public Forum about the unfairness if same-sex marriage is legalized and the fact that common-law marriage is not recognized in North Carolina, that brings up a good point.

Cohabitating heterosexual couples who have not married are making that choice. Same-sex partners don't have that same choice.

It perplexes me that many people seem obsessed with the sex lives of others who they perceive to be homosexual. I say, “It's none of your business.” Gay people are not to be pitied, rescued or cured. Homosexuality is not a disease or a choice, and sexual orientation is not a so-called “lifestyle.” Simply put, sexual orientation (homosexual or heterosexual) is just one part of who we are.

Some people may be surprised to know that gay people live what most of us would consider normal lives. What's unfair is that many must vigilantly hide their private lives for fear of job loss, discrimination, being shunned or even being physically harmed.

For those who choose to be judgmental and to quote the Bible, the Aug. 12 and Aug. 13 Public Forum letters are well stated. Bravo.

Two consenting adults who love each other and who commit to a life together should have the right to a legal marriage with all the same benefits and responsibilities of that contract. Equal rights is indeed the issue.

ANN ECKERe_SFlbWinterville

Please goto this site and leave you comments..

Some Interesting Facts

While only 3 cities in North Carolina have passed resolutions in favor of same-sex marriage, County Commissioners in at least 15 counties and one town have passed resolutions in favor of a Marriage Protection Amendment that would prohibit same-sex marriage.

 

County Commissioners in the following counties have passed Resolutions calling for the General Assembly to approve legislation submitting a proposal to the qualified voters of the State for adoption of an Amendment to the North Carolina Constitution stating:  "Marriage between a man and a woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or enforceable in this State."

• Alexander
• Ashe
• Avery
• Craven
• Dare *new as of 4-6-09
• Davidson
• Davie *new as of 4-06-09
• Gaston
• Graham
• Madison
• Moore
• Pasquotank
• Rowan
• Transylvania
• Union *new as of 4-06-09

The following towns have passed the Resolution:

• Town of Cedar Point

This is very shocking to said the least.. We need to organizes LGBT groups in every County and City, and Town..

 

We must act, We must watch our City Councils and our County Commissioners Meeting. Once this type of Resolution get placed on their Agenda We must act, We must speak out, We must let our Community Know so we can Fight this .

 

Let’s embrace acceptance, tolerance, inclusion, and understanding!