In
this Issue:
Last Chance for Pageant: Benefit Performance
this Sunday
Colorado to Define Marriage: Voters face 4 Different Measures on Ballot
H4PJ to Launch Ad Campaign: Our values are simple. The journey is not.
Dobson’s Interfaith group rejects Global Warming: Presents petition signed
by clergy
H4PJ Green Team: Join others in a journey to be more Green
H4PJ
Presents Pageant
Last Chance to Buy Your Tickets!
an Uptown Players Production
Special Benefit Performance
This Sunday, April 30th | 7pm | Trinity River Arts Center
 Now is the last chance for you to buy Pageant tickets. Pageant has received
rave reviews in D Magazine, the Dallas Morning News and Dallas Observer. It is
going to be a wonderful event. So, come enjoy a great show and help raise up
to $4,000 for Hope for Peace & Justice.
Support Hope for Peace & Justice on this special night. The cast of Pageant
has donated a special performance to Hope for Peace & Justice. By purchasing
your ticket to Pageant through Hope for Peace & Justice, you help us raise
money for important campaigns, programs and workshops. Your $50 ticket includes
an invitation to a post-show dessert reception. The benefit performance is this
Sunday, April 30 at 7pm in the Trinity River Arts Center.
Click
here to buy your tickets.
You've
never seen a beauty pageant like this one! Pageant pits
six beauty queens (all played by men) against each other
in an extravaganza of evening gowns, bathing suits, and
not-to-be-missed talent.
While
les girls swirl around the charming host in the funniest
beauty contest ever seen, judges selected from the audience
decide who will be crowned Miss Glamouresse. A different
winner each night ensures non-stop nail-biting fun!
Tickets are still available online!
Click here to buy your tickets.
H4PJ has made great strides this year. We have launched
conflict resolution training programs, developed
a great ad campaign, and called attention to "earth killers." We send
out weekly emails to 8,000 subscribers and are developing
a program to activate local H4PJ chapters across
the nation.
We need your support now. Buy your tickets online today!
Support H4PJ today!
Click here to buy your tickets online.
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Attend?
Show your support and make a donation today!
Thank you for supporting Hope for Peace & Justice. Don’t
miss this opportunity to see a great show and support the
issues, campaigns and programs of H4PJ.
Colorado to Define Marriage
Voters could rule on four measures this November
Originally Published by the Rocky Mountain News
April 26, 2006
 Another gay-rights-related measure could join three others
proposed for the November ballot, setting up an emotional
election-year debate over how the law should treat same-sex
couples.
The latest entry is by the gay- rights group Coloradans
for Fairness and Equality. It has filed paperwork
for a November ballot initiative that says "domestic partnerships" between
gay couples are not similar to marriage.
That's an effort to counter another ballot measure, which
would prohibit the state from creating any legal status
similar to marriage for same-sex couples. That language
is backed by Will Perkins, author of ill-fated Amendment
2 in 1992, and Rep. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud.
Both measures have to attract about 68,000 valid voter
signatures to make the ballot, as does a proposed state
constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between
a man and a woman, effectively banning gay marriage.
A proposal establishing domestic partnerships for gay
couples is working its way through the legislature.
If it passes, it also would be on the ballot.
The gay-rights group opposes the marriage amendment.
But it is the Perkins-Lundberg proposal that has
inspired the countermove.
Click
here to continue reading.
GLBT Rights Measures on the Colorado Ballot
Four measures that would affect gay rights are working
their way toward the November ballot. Three are proposed
constitutional amendments, and one is a statute under
consideration in the legislature. A brief description
of each:
- House
Bill 1344: Would allow domestic partnerships
to be registered by the state. The effect would be to
extend certain benefits, protections and responsibilities to same-sex
couples. That would include the right to inherit property
from a partner, family leave benefits, medical decision-making
and others.
Sponsor: Rep. Tom Plant, D-Nederland. For more information:
www.leg.state.co.us and www.fairnessandequality.org
- Colorado
Marriage Amendment: A constitutional amendment
that says, "Only a union of one man and one woman
shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state." The
amendment wouldn't prohibit same-sex couples
from receiving benefits allowed by law, but it
would prohibit same-sex relationships from being
officially sanctioned as marriages.
Sponsor: Coloradans
for Marriage, a coalition of 10 religious
and family-values groups. For more
information:
www.marriageforcolorado.com
- No
Legal Status Amendment: A constitutional amendment
that would prohibit the state
from creating any legal status similar to marriage for a same-sex couple. The
amendment is an attempt to trump the domestic
partnership measure in HB 1344.
Sponsors: Rep. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, and Will
Perkins of Colorado Springs, backer of 1992's Amendment
2 prohibition on gay rights laws that was struck down
by the U.S. Supreme Court. For more information: www.protectingcoloradochildren.org
- Domestic
Partnership Amendment: A constitutional
amendment that
would make same-sex domestic partnerships "a
unique and valued
relationship" that
is not similar
to marriage. The intent
is to allow voters
to say domestic
partnerships don't violate the
one-man, one-woman
marriage definition.
It is meant to
counter the No Legal Status
Amendment.
Sponsor: Coloradans
for Fairness
and Equality,
which is
supporting
voter approval
of HB 1344.
For more
information: www.fairnessandequality.org
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H4PJ
to launch ad campaign
Our values are simple. The journey is not.
 Hope
for Peace & Justice has come a long way since starting
in 2005. We have been able to recruit staff, organize volunteers,
march in the streets on your behalf, and implement programs
and workshops to equip you to speak out against the hypocrisy
of the Religious Right.
There
is a great need for an organization like Hope for Peace & Justice
that will speak to the values of progressive
people of faith. Seeking justice for the marginalized and
advocating for peace have been, and continue to be, actions
deeply rooted in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity
and Islam.
Although
we have been able to do many things, Hope for Peace & Justice
lacks national name recognition. This is a problem if we
hope to take on the extremism of the Religious
Right and fight for equality for
GLBT people, the protection of God’s creation the environment,
equal access to health care and adequate education for
all people.
In order
to build name recognition, Hope for Peace & Justice
has developed an ad campaign that centers on the idea that our
values are simple. The journey is not.
Hope
for Peace & Justice hopes to raise $25,000 to place
our ad in popular liberal blogs and magazines and
produce a public service announcement that would air on radio and TV.
Help
us build a national audience today so future generations
won’t have to face the same problems tomorrow!
Click
here to donate to H4PJ.
Click
here to send this to a friend.
This
Sunday, Hope for Peace & Justice will present its first Earth
Killer Award. While we hope to receive local media
attention, without the national name recognition of organizations
like the ACLU or the Sierra Club, we fall to the whims
of local reporters. This ad campaign will boost not only
our visibility, but it will introduce H4PJ to fellow progressives
who believe that peace and justice are religious values.
Hope
for Peace & Justice will be a national organization
that confronts the Religious Right on true moral values.
We will only be that with your support. Donate
to H4PJ today and tell
a friend.
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Bob
Munro has generously offered a 15% donation to H4PJ
for every piece of art sold through Hope for Peace & Justice.
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Dobson’s
Interfaith group rejects Global Warming
Presents Petition signed by clergy, others
Originally Published in the Washington Post
 A coalition of evangelical religious leaders has launched
an education campaign to try to persuade pastors and churchgoers
that dire predictions about global warming are overblown.
The Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, supported by Focus
on the Family founder James Dobson and others, announced
Wednesday that its Cornwall Network of Churches campaign
will provide information that can be distributed
to parishioners or used to influence sermons.
It's the latest salvo in an escalating political battle
among evangelicals over the environment and global warming.
In
February, a moderate evangelical group, the Evangelical
Climate Initiative, was launched. It advocates personal,
religious and commercial action to combat global warming,
which it says could result in the deaths of millions of
people. The Dobson-backed Interfaith Stewardship Alliance
bases its beliefs on the 2000 Cornwall Declaration on Environmental
Stewardship. The document, signed by more than 1,500 people
-- including clergy, theologians, scientists and economists
-- states that concerns about global warming, overpopulation
and rampant species loss are unfounded.
H4PJ
Green Team
Help us save the Earth
 H4PJ believes that taking care of the environment is a moral
issue. The World Health Organization estimates that up to
160,000 people die each year due to the direct and indirect
impacts of global warming. That is almost as many as have
died in the 2005 tsunami.
Hope for Peace & Justice calls upon the United States
government to recognize that global warming is a serious
and legitimate crisis facing the world. H4PJ also calls for
the signing of the Kyoto Protocol.
Today the U.S. watches as the rest of the world takes
a step toward saving the planet. The question is
what will we do?
Here are ways you can help.
Learn Practical Steps to be more Green
Join the H4PJ Green Team
Read what we believe
Read about the Earth Killer Award
Poll: Who else is an Earth Killer?
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