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Basics
What is The Coalition?
What do we do? (Vision/Mission)
Who are the staff and Council?
Open and Affirming (ONA)
Youth and Young Adults (YYA)
Resources and materials

Happenings
Newsletters and other news
Events (ours and others')

Participation
How to get involved (PDF)
How to donate

Connections
Find an ONA church/setting
Additional contacts/directory
Network with other members
Web links

Marriage Equality:

• Marriage study packet
• How can I help?
• List of benefits of legal marriage
• Marriage equality links

Programs of The Coalition

• Discussion boards
• Local chapters
• Marriage equality work
• National Gathering
• Open and Affirming
• Community organizing
• Youth and Young Adults

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Links to other organizations working on marriage equality.

United Church of Christ
God Is Still Speaking, about Marriage:
http://www.ucc.org/justice/marriage.htm

The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion has created a web-based Marriage Project, now available on its web site at www.clgs.org.

The Freedom to Marry Resource Kit can be downloaded at:
http://www.freedomtomarry.org/pdf/Freedom_to_Marry_Resource_Kit_2005.pdf
This resource kit has lots of ideas about things you can do to help educate and motivate folks in your city or state to support and work for an end to discrimination in marriage. It was developed for Freedom to Marry day, but you can use these ideas on anyday.

Equal Partners in Faith is a multi-racial national network of religious leaders and people of faith committed to equality and diversity.

Soulforce www.soulforce.org

The Human Rights Campaign www.hrc.org

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force www.ngltf.org

Gay.com website has a new Families Channel on its site. http://www.gay.com/families/ and http://www.planetout.com/families/.

Faith-Based Web Site on Marriage Issues: http://www.clgs.org/marriage/

FaithfulAmerica.org, an online advocacy service for persons with religious motivations for involvement in civic life. Not aligned with any political party, FaithfulAmerica.org offers its members an easy way to send messages to their elected officials, communicate with each other, sign petitions, and access inspiring sermons and commentaries from religious leaders about moral and spiritual challenges facing our society. Membership is free. It is a project of the National Council of Churches, with support from TrueMajority and ResPublica. http://www.councilofchurches.org/

MoveOn.org, its PAC, MoveOnPAC and a MoveOn initiative, United Not Divided. http://www.moveon.org/unitednotdivided/

www.GayRites.net is a new Web community devoted to the many rituals of lesbian and gay life. The site includes resources on subjects from coming out through travel to weddings, commitment ceremonies, adoption and building strong lesbian and gay relationships. The site features community forums in which experts moderate several of the ongoing discussions. The site also features a wedding gift registry, regular columns, lesbian and gay news, shopping and travel resources. GayRites.net offers a large and growing library of available books, videos and other resources featuring subjects such as planning a wedding or commitment ceremony, legal and financial issues, strengthening relationships, adoption and child-rearing and many other subjects of use and interest to lesbian and gay people and their families.The Coalition does not sponsor nor vouch for the conent of this site. This announcement is provided for information only.

Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders has a page about marriage myths posted on their website. The page is in Spanish. http://www.glad.org/rights/Marriage_Myths_spanish.shtml

An article: `Traditional Marriage' Isn't As Straightforward As All That

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