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Greetings, Help Ensure Equality for ALL Hoosiers! Sign Up For Organizing for LGBT Rights The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Elkhart (UUFE) will host a organizing training for LGBT civil rights on Saturday, October 10th, 2009. Starting at 10:00 am, ''Organizing for LGBT Rights: Finding the Road in Indiana'' aims to empower local citizens to engage in the political process while achieving LGBT civil rights. The training will include sessions on organizing in small towns and rural areas, enacting local human rights ordinances, bias crimes and bias crime laws, electoral politics, the legislative process, how to interact with the public, and how to work with communities of faith. The training comes at a time that coincides with Indiana Equality's Human Rights Ordinance Project efforts towards amending local human rights ordinances to include sexual orientation and gender identity. ''Sometimes we need training to give us support in numbers, we need to learn how to reach others with information and we need to simply understand how the legislative process works. The civil rights I have cannot be enjoyed until all people regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity can say they, too, have the same civil rights. I believe this workshop will help to meet those ends'' explained Pam Kramer, Chair of the UUFE Steering Committee charged with organizing the event. Among the training facilitators will be notable Azariah Southworth, a popular gay Christian television host, will lead a session on working with communities of faith. Space is limited and interested parties must RSVP by October 4th. For questions or to RSVP, contact Pam Kramer at RN_Pamela@yahoo.com . The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Elkhart is a
welcoming community encouraging religious freedom, nurturing
individual spiritual and ethical growth, celebrating diversity,
and promoting a just and sustainable world. Located in Elkhart,
Indiana, UUFE is a religious and/or spiritual "home" for
individuals and families throughout the Michiana area - drawing
its membership from Elkhart, South Bend, Mishawaka, Bristol,
Goshen, Middlebury, Edwardsburg, and the list goes
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