Hi everyone,

The organizers of the Nashville protest had a great meeting last night and we are ready to keep things moving along! We have some ideas that we are currently working on but none of them will succeed without the help of all of you. We are asking all of our GLBT and straight friends who were at the protest and all of you who couldn't attend as well to join us by going to www.myspace.com/431231556 and adding Impact! Equality to your friends list. We hope to soon have our own web site and other ways for us to all stay in touch but this is the start.

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Many of you who were at the Nashville protest probably remember a couple of guys who might have looked a bit out of place. They are SHARPS, Skin Heads Against Racial Prejudice (don't believe everything you see on the Geraldo Show, the vast majority of skin heads are not racists) and are really good friend's of mine and my partners. One of them wrote a blog posting on his myspace page explaining his experience at the protest and I was very impressed and moved by it when I read it. I hope you will take the time to take a look. Just go to;

http://www.myspace.com/mikebrocks

and click on the "view more" link next to the blog entry entitled "Proposition 8 Protest - A Story" It is great to hear what one of our straight friends thought of the event.

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We need to educate people to the importance of the American principle of keeping the institutions of church and government separate and free. The following can be your introduction to Americans United for Separation of Church and State. You can join our Tennessee E-mail Network to keep abreast of legislation and activities. We need your help now and especially when the legislature convenes under Republican control.

Religious liberty, Teaching Evolution, Prayer in Schools. These will be some aspects of his three-month anthropological field studies in eastern Tennessee in a presentation by Michael Tidwell, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Vanderbilt University. Discussion will follow. It will be held Saturday, November 22, from 2 to 3:30 pm at the Green Hills Public Library, sponsored by Nashville Chapter Americans United for Separation of Church and State. His insights are part of the Religion and Politics Project of the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture. The program is free. Information: (615) 646-9946.

Further comments from Michael Tidwell:
I will be discussing results from ethnographic fieldwork in east Tennessee. For three months this summer, I attended churches, civic meetings and public events in a small town east of Knoxville. Through talking to a variety of people and listening to thoughts and concerns, I came away with valuable insights into the debate over the separation of church and state in the United States. Specifically, I will share what I heard regarding prayer in schools, religious liberty and teaching evolution. The conclusions I draw from these experiences have important implications for the strategies adopted by people who would like to see religion and politics separated, and I hope they will encourage an interesting discussion.

CHARLES SUMNER, President-Emeritus, Nashville Chapter
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
www.Nashville-AU.org

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I will be there!!!! trying to get some friends to be there as well...lets make our signs, bring our flags and show everyone that WE DO HAVE A VOICE!

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My name is Shawn, myself as well as friends will be there--A posting will go out on my Myspace and Facebook pages--Hopefully the word will get out and together we can make a difference

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Join the event on Facebook. Let's go viral!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35886082545

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My name is Angie, my wife and I will be there, and I'll post this info on my blog. We'll gather up some more supporters!

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