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What does it mean to be an ally?

  Last week I attended the Fresno City College Pride Celebration.  Unsurprisingly, I heard a lot of talk about equality, about the need for change, about hate crime statues, about the overcoming of challenges. All those things were great to talk about, but one thing really resonated with me: the call for our allies to step

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A Word From the Valley: Change

A Word from the Valley (2011, Article 2) After much consideration, I’ve decided that the word this week shall be: change.  There are a plethora of changes being made to the world in various arenas, and over the last three decades, I’ve seen more changes than most of the decades before me.  We’ve watched the

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A Word from the Valley

This week’s word from the valley is ‘lo.No, not low, down in the valley so low…just ‘lo. ·It’s southern; it means good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and hi…but not hello, that would be ludicrous. ·My level of southern tends to vary from day to day, and my accent runs the gamut from nondetection to

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GetEQUAL: Tony Perkins Is Right

Dear friends, Well, it finally happened. Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins finally got something right. In a recent press release, Tony got all hot and bothered that GetEQUAL DC organizers decided to call out Bancroft PLLC — the bigoted and discriminatory law firm that has taken up the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) case —

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