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Q-NOTES • MAY 10.2003
THIS obedience: the battle for
religious rites
Film chronicles Lutheran clergy's
painful path to becoming a pastor
This is a documentary of one woman’s
battle with the third largest Christian
denomination the United
States, the ELCA,
Evangelical Lutheran
Church of America.
Anita C. Hill is deter
mined to become a
pastor in spite of
Church rules against
“non-celibate” gays
and lesbians in the
clergy.
In an act of “eccle
siastical disobedience”
a small Midwestern
congregation ordains
Anita Hill.
In the following months,
Anita’s life is
turned upside down as "good Church folk” and
the Lutheran hierarchy rejects her ordination
and her Congregation, interwoven with Anita’s
personal reflections, her close friend Emily
Eastwood struggles with the Church’s power to
reject her own call to ministry.
By defying Church rules, Rev. Anita C. Hill
emerges from relative anonymity to become a
national icon in the fight for spiritual equality.
Given unprecedented access to Rev. Hill
and the ELCA’s National Assembly, THIS obe
dience reveals the' emotional epicenter of
debate over the ordination of gay clergy.
"THIS obedience has captured the struggle
for justice for God’s GLBT children in just 90
powerful minutes. I felt despair and wept
bitterly. But I felt hope, joy and certainty
again as well,” said Rev. Mel White, co
founder of Soulforce and author of Stranger
at the Cate.
WINNERS
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employment, union membership and housing,
among other acts.
The Hate Crimes Bill authored by State
Sen. Cisco McSorIcy, added penalties for bias-
related crimes of vandalism and acts of vio
lence (save for non-capital murders) against
various categories including sexual orienta
tion and gender identity.
“With the passage of a hate crimes bill in
New Mexico to protect, among others, sexual
orientation and gender identity; may this
serve to speed all states to have such protec
tions," said Stephenson of NMGAIN, "and
serve notice on our culture that all persons are
deserving of respect and freedom."
The National Transgender Advocacy
Coalition paid high tribute to the Coalition for
Equality in New Mexico, and to New Mexico
Gender Advocacy Information Network for an
outstanding year.
“Theirs was not only a tremendous victo
ry, but a wonderful blueprint for success,”
said NTAC chair, Vanessa Edwards Foster.
“New Mexico GAIN only formed four years
ago, and they’ve made fantastic strides,”
added Foster, also executive director of TGAIN
in neighboring Texas. “I’m very proud of
Virginia and the New Mexico group!”
Only Minnesota and Rhode Island previ
ously had transgcndcr-inclusivc nondiscrimi
nation protections before the New Mexico
vote. With the governor’s signature. New
Mexico will also join Minnesota, California,
Vermont, Missouri and Pennsylvania with
Hate Crimes legislation that covers gender
identity.
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