In this Issue:

Special Event :	Come Ride the Peace Train
Program Update:	What is a Culture of Peace?
Action Alerts:	Make Your Voice Heard
Equality Coaltion:	Texans: Register to Vote Today
Town Hall Meeting:	Defeat Texas Proposition 2

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Come Ride the Peace Train
benefiting the Hope for Peace & Justice
fight for Marriage Equality

Join us on October 15th as we gather to celebrate and encourage Peace in our world. The Peace Train is a progressive dinner designed to help supporters of Hope for Peace & Justice share this organization with their friends in a fun atmosphere. Come Ride the Peace Train in a night with dessert, drinks and silent auction benefiting the Hope for Peace & Justice fight for Marriage Equality.

Date: Saturday, October 15
Time: Dessert Party begins at 8pm
Place: Station 4 Granite Bar | 3911 Cedar Springs Rd | Dallas 75219
Suggested Donation for Dessert Party: $25

Sign Up to Attend the Dessert Party

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What is a Culture of Peace?
A Hope for Peace & Justice Workshop
November 12 | 9am – 4pm
5910 Cedar Springs Rd | Dallas, TX

Save the Date: Saturday, November 12

On November 12, Hope for Peace & Justice will host the workshop, “What is a Culture of Peace?” This workshop will introduce ideas and methodologies designed to generate dialogue on creating cultures of peace.

Developed by Rev. Shelley Hamilton, Program Director for Hope for Peace & Justice, the workshop will consist of four parts. Individual segments will focus on four intersecting pathways to nourishing cultures and communities of peace. Each section will contain theoretical and practical components designed to assist us in our efforts to become people of peace and to understand cultures and religions different than our own.

The segments include:

Introduction: A Culture of Peace
Part I – Inner Peace: Nonviolence and Love
Part II – Peace within the Community: Relationship, Mutuality, and Justice
Part III – Peace outside our Community: Religious Pluralism In America
Part IV – Peace in Nature: The Body of God?

Guest Presenters will be announced soon. Registration begins next week.

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Texans: Register to Vote Today!
October 11 Deadline

In order to vote against the discriminatory Prop 2, you must register to Vote! Please follow these links now to ensure your vote is counted!

Click here to register to Vote

Already registered, but need to update your information – Click here...

Also visit www.h4pj.org/marriage/ to:

Join the Equality Coalition
Make a Covenant to Vote
View Resources about Marriage Equality
Download your Personal Packet to talk to your Friends and Family

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Town Hall Meeting
Hosted by Hope for Peace & Justice and the Cathedral of Hope
Discussing Proposition 2
Sunday, October 9 | 6pm
5910 Cedar Springs | Dallas 75235

Hope for Peace & Justice and the Cathedral of Hope and will co-host a Town Hall Meeting on Sunday, October 9 at 6:00 pm to discuss the campaign to defeat Proposition 2, the so-called Texas “Marriage Amendment.” The meeting, which is free and open to all, will be held in the main sanctuary of the Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar Springs, Dallas, TX 75235.

If passed on November 8, 2005, Proposition 2 would provide that marriage in Texas is solely the union of a man and woman, and that the state and its political subdivisions could not create or recognize any legal status identical to or similar to marriage, including such legal status relationships created outside of Texas.

“The U.S. has long held as sacred the concept of equality,” said Reverend Michael S. Piazza, President of Hope for Peace & Justice. “It is not right for the government to treat one set of taxpayers differently based on the religious belief of the majority. Marriage equality is not a religious issue; it is a civil rights issue.”

Reverend Piazza will be joined at the meeting by H4PJ, Marriage Initiative Project Manager for Hope for Peace & Justice, as well as Kevin Downer, Assistant Statewide Faith Coordinator for No Nonsense in November, and other partner organizations.

For more information about the Hope for Peace & Justice against Constitutional Amendment #2, please visit www.h4pj.org/marriage/.

Make your Voice Heard: Click here to Write a Letter to the Editor.

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