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Pride 2011: Fabulous!

Deacon Diana Wheeler
Deacon Diana Wheeler led decoration of the Oasis Pride Cable Car

  

Thanks to everyone who helped by pitching in or showing up or making a donation or buying a t-shirt or worshipping with us on the streets of San Francisco Sunday morning. 

 

Special thanks to Deacon Diana Wheeler, Deacon Vince Jang, Don and Carol Anne Brown, and Oasis Vice President Dan Burner for their hard work and support. Thanks to our crew of Contingent Monitors who spent an hour being trained and then worked to keep us safe throughout the parade. And thanks to Sam Leite for spending his pride weekend taking photographs.   

 

Bishop Gene Preaches in 2011
Bishop Gene Preaches during 2011 Eucharist 2011

 

Thanks to the Bishop Gene Robinson for flying across America to help us celebrate Pride 20ll.  We hope he had as good a time as we collectively did and look forward to welcoming him back next year when his next book is out.  See more of Sam's photos from the Pride Eucharist and Parade here. Additional photos from Sunday are here and here (thanks Neil!) and here.

  

Three of us
Rev. Kathy Crary, Bishop Gene and Oasis California President Tom Jackson at the Friday night reception.

  More reception photos by Sam here. Higher resolution and a greater range of  photos are here

Dan and Bishop Gene
Oasis CA Vice President Dan Burner and Bishop Gene Friday night.

New Web Site Helps Same Gender Couples Plan Blessings @ Bay Area Episcopal Churches

We've just launched a new section of the Oasis web site to help same gender couples arrange the  blessing of their relationship in a church within the Episcopal Diocese of California. While developed to meet the needs of same gender couples, this information can also help heterosexual couples.  Check it out!

 

Looking for a welcoming Episcopal Church?

If you are already a member of a Bay Area Episcopal Church, skip this paragraph. If not, you can find a church home among these Oasis Congregations - they are LGBT friendly Episcopal churches across the Bay Area. An interfaith directory of LGBT-welcoming faith communities and congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area is also maintained by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Coalition of Welcoming Congregations. A national interdenominational map of welcoming and affirming churches is offered online by Believe OutLoud

Sacred Cocktails:
Monday @ 7:30 P.M.
Lookout Bar, 16th & Market, SF

 

Finding church a bit un-welcoming these days? Come hang out and discuss religion and spirituality from an affirmative, pro-LGBTQ perspective.
We're Christian and we're open to all. Each week features a guest facilitator, followed by time to hang out and chat about religion, spirituality, and sexuality. A Ministry sponsored by St. Aidan's Episcopal Church and the San Francisco Night Ministry.

 

Events

 

How will you respond to the upcoming 
9th Circuit Court's decision on Prop 8? 

 

Oasis California is joining the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area in preparing for the upcoming decision of the US 9th Court of Appeals on Proposition 8. 

 

We understand this decision may be handed down any day! 

 

We hope you will work with us to plan and present a public response to the decision of the 9th Circuit Court to uphold or overturn Judge Walker's historic  verdict striking down Prop 8. Please consider:

 

1. Planning a response in your community: Planning a rally for 5 p.m. would allow your community to attend following their work day and allow media to do cover the even on their 5p.m., 6 p.m. and 11p.m. newscasts.  Please contact the Coalition's Associate Coordinator at droginski@clgs.org so she can help publicize it.

 

 

2. Joining in our response in San Francisco:  
  • Join us in your clerical garments at the 9th Circuit Courthouse (7th and Mission in San Francisco) at 10 a.m. when the decision is read and a press conference will immediately follow.  

    We anticipate media to be present to capture the supporters and opponents of marriage equality.  We will not be asked to speak, but the stand behind the lawyers and other officials to show our support for marriage equality (win or lose).     
     
  • Join us in your clerical garments for a 5 p.m. rally at the corner of Castro St and Market St in San Francisco to participate for a public rally at 5  p.m. (win or lose).  We are looking for 3 clergy of various religious backgrounds who would like to speak to the crowd and put the decision in a religious context (3 minutes maximum).  Everyone else will be present in our clergy garments to be supportive.  There will not be a march from the Castro as we did the last time we gathered for Judge Walker's verdict.        
     
  • Join in civil disobedience if the Court decides to overturn Judge Walker's verdictand marriage for all is delayed yet again. Should that happen there will be civil disobedience action following the 10 a.m. announcement. More information TBA and YES - you can attend the press conference without participating in the civil disobedience action.

If you would like to join in any of these  actions, please email our CLGS Associate Coordinator at  droginski@clgs.org with your name and best method to contact you when the decision is announced (phone, text, or email).  Don't worry if you don't know your schedule.  

 

If you are interested in participating, contact us and we will simply ask if you are available on that day and time.  We are anticipating a favorable decision for couples and families impacted by this unfair and unequal ban on marriage for all California citizens.

 

Thank you for your participation in this sacred activism action!

 

Rev. Thomas C. Jackson, President, Oasis California

Episcopal Diocese of California

Diocesan House

1055 Tailor Street

San Francisco, California 94108

 

Rev. Roland Stringfellow, Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area 

Director of Ministerial Outreach

Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry

Pacific School of Religion

1798 Scenic Ave.

Berkeley, CA 94709

 

Oasis expands e-mail updates

Oasis California is offering a series of e-mail updates to help you stay informed. Go here to sign up for  your monthly summary of news as well as issue specific updates.

 


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