Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Today, millions will ‘go purple’ to support LGBT youth and take a stand against all-too-prevalent bullying based on sexual orientation and gender identity. They’ll be wearing purple and using purple on social media as a way to show that they…
Four month old Maria Ahern, in the arms of her mother Chelsea Ahern, was at the Hawaii State Capitol on November 12, 2013 as the same-sex marriage bill advanced to passage. Dressed in rainbow colors to proclaim solidarity with LGBT…
Bishop Larry Silva says, “No matter what our sexual attraction may be, we are all equal as persons.” Nonetheless his latest call to Catholics to fight marriage equality calls up images of transvestite cross-dressers overrunning the islands. Apparently “businesses will…
“I come to gather nations of every language.” Is 66:18 The weekend of Aug 24 saw the commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the March on Washington. That pivotal event helped move politicians to…
The world that Puanani Burgess gets her audiences to visualize as she talks to them about “Building the Beloved Community” is peopled with her children and grandchildren, her husband and other family members and neighbors from her beloved rural Wai`anae.…
South America, Argentina, Hispanics and a soccer team, have claimed him as their own. Maybe, one suggested, God is an Argentine? Perhaps we can make the case that Pope Francis is really from Hawaii. Wasn’t that the spirit of aloha…
These pre-election days are filled with the noise of a number of Catholic Bishops issuing denunciations of “some candidates and one party” because of positions on contraception, abortion and gay marriage that the Bishops deem “intrinsically evil” or against the…
Perhaps this is what an evening of “contemplative rhythm” feels like. The evening’s events had nothing to do with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) directly. But its spirit called to mind the words of Franciscan Sr. Pat Farrell,…
Last night in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Honolulu, a small group gathered to say to our LGBT brothers and sisters that we believe that Christ does not discriminate. There is apparently no room in any of Hawaii’s Catholic churches…
In 1965 Thomas Merton, in an open letter to the US Bishops said: The Christian is called . . . to obey the Gospel of love, for all men, and not simply to devote himself to the interests of a…
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