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Religious leaders revive bid to pass transgender bill
Posted: 5 April 2011
Source: The Boston Globe
Tags: transgender, Massachusetts, harassment, religion, hate crimes

Some Massachusetts religious groups back 'transgender' rights
Posted: 5 April 2011
Source: Catholic Culture
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Donors Asked to Withhold Aid Over Proposed Law in Cambodia
Posted: 7 April 2011
Source: The New York Times
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Human Rights Watch urges U.S. to put Vietnam back on religious freedom blacklist
Posted: 30 Mar 2011
Source: Associated Press
Tags: Vietnam, US, freedom of religion, wrongful imprisonment

Nations pledge movement on LGBT issues at UN Human Rights Council
Posted: 31 Mar 2011
Source: Pride Source
Tags: UN, global, homosexuality, sexual freedom,

New Coalition to Focus on Human Rights, Democracy in Iran
Posted: 30 Mar 2011
Source: The Atlantic
Tags: Iran, nuclear weapons, journalism

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Unitarians turn tragedy into lesson in tolerance
Posted: 11 Feb 2011
Source: Fox News
Tags: gay rights, religion, good news, children,

Transgender Rights Not Simply Gay Rights
Posted: 10 Feb 2011
Source: Pambazuka News
Tags: transgender rights, gay rights, misappropriation, Africa

Jamaica's gays finding refuge by applying for U.S. asylum
Posted: 11 Feb 2011
Source: Washington Post
Tags: asylum, Jamaica, Caribbean, US, gay rights, violence, immigration

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Christians protecting Muslims while they pray during protests in Egypt. - Imgur
Incredible

Christians protect Muslims as they pray in Egypt
Published: 3 Feb 2011
Source: Loon Watch
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Images of Solidarity...
Published: 3 Feb 2011
Source: Daily Mail
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Egypt: Stop Attacks on Peaceful Protesters
Published: 3 Feb 2011
Source: Human Rights Watch
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Mexico: Deliver Justice for Killings, Disappearances in Monterrey
Published: 3 Feb 2011
Source: Human Rights Watch
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Film: Romero

WARNING: MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
[post is unfinished]

"The Church is a whore. She spreads her legs to the highest bidder."
The power and corruption of faith.
"We're human beings."
"let my blood be a seed fo freedom"
the Church of God is the people


what is eucharist on the ground?
flashing photos of victims
1980-89 - 60,000 Salvadorians killed


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098219/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romero_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero

Economic injustice is the root of our problems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Tutu



[Prayer for Social Justice, by Sister Helen Prejean]

God of Compassion

You let your rain fall on the just and the unjust.
Expand and deepen our hearts
so that we may love as You love,
even those among us
who have caused the greatest pain by taking life.
For there is in our land a great cry for vengeance
as we fill up death row and kill the killers
in the name of justice, in the name of peace.
Jesus, our brother,
you suffered execution at the hands of the state
but you did not let hatred overcome you
Help us to reach out to victims of violence
so that our enduring love may help them heal.
Holy Spirit of God,
You strengthen us in the struggle for justice,
Help us to work tirelessly
for the abolition of state-sanctioned death
and to renew our society in its very heart
so that violence will be no more.

Amen.