My family and I chose to observe Solidarity Sunday, October 10, 2010 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church on Kapahulu Avenue. The service was organized by the Honolulu Chapter of Dignity/USA. We were early and joined the six or seven people,…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Solidarity Sunday with LGBT Catholics, Honolulu
Tagged with: Archbishop Nienstedt, Dignity/USA Honolulu, Minnesota Catholics, Solidarity Sunday
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics Honolulu, Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Equality and Faith, I BLOG, LGBT Catholics Honolulu, Religion, Uncategorized
Bishop Shares the Living Teaching. . .
. . . of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism. It was wonderful to listen earlier today to Bishop Thomas Okano of the Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii explain why they had felt compelled to pass and publicize a resolution earlier this year …
Tagged with: Bishop Thomas Okano, HB444, Honpa Hongwanji, JACL
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Religion, Uncategorized
Time for Hawaii to be Equally Blessed
Thanks to Susie Roth, a listening parent with Fortunate Families, I was just alerted to a wonderful coming together of Catholic organizations dedicated to the view that the church should model its beliefs and its faith by welcoming EVERYONE. This…
Tagged with: Call To Action, DignityUSA, Equally Blessed, Fortunate Families, Hawaii Catholics, HB444, Justice for LGBT families, New Ways Ministry
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Religion, Uncategorized
If not swords to ploughshares, then bicycle chains to key chains
Like a good neighbor, this blog, with a little neighborly push from Jo Chang, connected me to a kindred spirit in Florida. Unshakably Pacific in more ways than one, Kaysie McAlister announces herself as “not Catholic but totally sold on…
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Stephen Colbert, Dives and Lazarus: To See or Not to See
Watching Stephen Colbert testify before Congress in the persona of the host of his comic right wing talk show was a bumpily surreal experience. Bumpy because through the incongruity of his testimony delivered with almost unrelieved sarcasm, came real glimpses…
Tagged with: Dives and Lazarus, illegal farm workers, immigration reform, Stephen Colbert
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
A Pledge to America. . .Or How to Bear False Witness
The easiest way to understand the GOP’s just unveiled Pledge to America is to understand the commandment “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness.” Apparently John Boehner and his GOP associates do not think their professed stewardship of Christian values includes…
Tagged with: Christian Values, GOP Pledge, Health Reform, Patient's Bill of Rights
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
