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                                                November 2014


Celebrate the Legacy of Kristy Milligan

December 3, 2014

  

Citizens Project is sad to say goodbye to Executive Director Kristy Milligan as she heads into her next professional adventure at Rocky Mountain PBS.

 

View the full invitation here.

 

We hope you can join us!  

 

If you are unable to attend, please consider the following:

 

~Write a memory or words of thanks to be included in a gift to Kristy and send to Deb Walker.

 

~If you would like to make a special, additional legacy gift to Citizens Project in Kristy's honor, you can do so by mail or online

 

Marriage: Separating secular from sacramental


 

by Ken Burrows
 

Various courts around the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have been increasingly receptive to same-sex marriage, based mainly on the need to constitutionally ensure equal rights to all citizens. What the courts have less commonly acknowledged is that laws banning such marriages have rested almost exclusively on a constitutionally dubious collusion between church and state. No matter how they've worded their motives, advocates of legally limiting marriage to one-man-one-woman have in the main been seeking to impose their favored religious doctrines about marriage onto all. They've sought to give sacramental prerogatives legal preference over secular rights.  

 

Read the full article.


December 9- Colorado Gives Day
Support Citizens Project!

Please support Citizens Project this year by giving on Colorado Gives Day!


 

Colorado Gives Day is an annual statewide movement to celebrate and increase philanthropy in Colorado through online giving. For the fifth consecutive year, Community First Foundation and FirstBank are partnering to present Colorado Gives Day on Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Donations are accepted through ColoradoGives.org.


 

For the first time ever, Colorado Gives Day features a $1 Million Incentive Fund, one of the largest gives-day incentive funds in the country. Every nonprofit receiving a donation on Colorado Gives Day receives a portion of the Incentive Fund, which increases the value of every dollar donated.

 

Articles of Interest
  
Colorado Springs Religious Freedom School Lawsuit
The Gazette article

South Carolina Exit Poll Controversy

Holidays Stricken From School Calendar
The Washington Post article

Gay Debate Challenges Traditional Definitions of 'Evangelical'
Sojourners article
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