small town woman stands up for gay rights

[LDS Jock]

In Harrison, AR, a town of about 12,000 people in the Ozarks region. Here is the article in today's paper online. How great is this?

Donna Werley, who said she is a member of the Green Party, carried a sign that read, "Family is wherever we find love and care. Laws can't touch that. All the rights' laws and all their pious men can't drag us back to the '50s again."
A purple brochure that Werley was handing out said, "The religious right has accused gay men and lesbians of causing everything from 9-11 to the increase in hurricanes and the decline of moral values in America. It's time to stop making homosexuals the scapegoats for our nation's problems."
Werley said that although many Christian churches attempt to dissuade congregants from getting a divorce, born-again Christians have the same likelihood of divorce as non-Christians.
"Among married born again Christians, 35 percent have experienced a divorce," said Werley. "That figure is identical to the outcome among married adults who are not born again."
She said the highest divorce rates in the nation are found in the Bible Belt of Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.
"Is America to be a nation where two women who build a life together, maybe raise kids or tend to elderly parents, pay taxes, contribute to the community, care for one another, and even fight over who takes out the garbage are free and equal, or a land where they can be told by their government that they are somehow lesser or incomplete or not whole because they do not have a man in their lives?" asked Werley.
Werley said she received permission to protest around the courthouse from county officials. "They told me I could protest unless enough called to complain," she said. "If enough complain, then they told me they were going to ask me to leave."

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13959870&BRD=1815&PAG=461&dept_id=516928&rfi=6



Donna Werley was protesting at the Boone County Courthouse on Valentine's Day saying, "It's time to stop making gay men and lesbians the scapegoats for our nation's problems."

[mitchtv]

1. what a gal

Pharisee Xians will hate her. Too much Christian behavior to be tolerated by the churches.