Category Archives: Advocacy

Equality Loudoun, Area Churches Condemn Sterling Supervisor

For immediate release December 10, 2004 EQUALITY LOUDOUN, AREA CHURCHES CONDEMN IRRESPONSIBLE ANTI-CHILD ACTIONS OF STERLING SUPERVISOR (December 10, 2004) Equality Loudoun along with local religious leaders today condemned Sterling Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio’s recent actions directed at the Loudoun County … Continue reading

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To Have and To Hold: Part Two

(Includes remarks on marriage equality from David and Jonathan Weintraub of Equality Loudoun, Roberta Finkelstein of UU Sterling and Jack Stagman of the Loudoun Church Alliance) Loudoun Friday Times December 3, 2004 By Brittany Boyd This week, we conclude our … Continue reading

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Reality of Bad Marriages

Washington Post Loudoun Extra October 7, 2004 Contrary to the statement of the Rev. Jack Stagman of the Loudoun Church Alliance [“Religious Groups Nurturing Marriage,” Metro, Sept. 28], equality for same-sex couples was very much an issue at the Healthy … Continue reading

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Cruel and Predictable

The Washinton Post August 27, 2004 LIKE MANY marriages, the union of Lisa Miller-Jenkins and Janet Miller-Jenkins didn’t work out. And like many children involved in divorce proceedings, their daughter, Isabella, born to Lisa two years ago through artificial insemination, … Continue reading

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Revoke the 2004 Affirmation of Marriage Act

The Loudoun Times-Mirror August 25, 2004 By David Jarman, Virginia Organizing Project, James City County Like a large portion of the public, I’m a little confused about the current debate nationally about gay marriage and its marriage-lite alternatives of civil … Continue reading

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Marriage: I know what it is not

Loudoun Times-Mirror July 28, 2004 By John D. Nuzum, Leesburg Roberta Finkelstein of the Unitarian Universalists congregation in Sterling certainly has the right to her opinion in the commentary entitled “The Great Lie and deciding who can be married” (July … Continue reading

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My sister and her wife

Loudoun Times-Mirror July 28, 2004 By Clark Hansberger, Purcellville This past fall, my family gathered for my sister’s wedding. She is the last of the siblings to tie the knot, and at 40, she is doing this long past the … Continue reading

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