Refuse to Sign
The Refuse to Sign Campaign seeks the separation of church and state by advocating equal marriage rights for all people, regardless of sexual orientation, by encouraging faith communities, and their leaders, not to sign state-issued marriage licenses.
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In 2002, with the support of the Board of Directors of White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church, our Minister, Victoria Safford, made public her decision to sign no marriage licenses for heterosexual couples until the rights and privileges such licenses afford are made available to gay and lesbian couples as [...]

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TESTIMONY
Senate Judiciary Committee (re: SF2715)
Minnesota State Senate
26 March 2003
Mr.Chairman, members of the committee, thank you for hearing me this afternoon.
Since my ordination to the ministry in 1989, I have presided over many marriages for heterosexual couples and many marriages for gay and lesbian couples. These are sacred rituals, a sacrament held [...]

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White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church
Sunday 5 July 2009
Sermon is used with permission of Author.
The Heart of the Matter, Here in the Heartland
by Rev. Victoria Safford
Mark Belletini is a Unitarian Universalist Minister and a gay man.
His poem is called Because: Gay and Lesbian Studies 101
And so one of the members
Of the Search Committee asks me
“But [...]

I am so proud to be a member of Pilgrim and the United Church of Christ. The church is comprised of so many different societal groups. It doesn’t surprise me that they would be one of the first churches setting out to gain marriage equality for every committed couple in their congregation.