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	<title>Mind NY Methodists in New Directions</title>
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		<title>Picnic with a purpose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mercury peaked at 96 degrees on Saturday, but that did not keep 40 MIND members from turning out for the annual picnic, which this year was held at Park Slope UMC in Brooklyn. The burgers and kabobs sizzled on the grill and we baked in the sun, but the food and the company were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/07/picnic-pix/</link>
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		<title>UMC minister attacked in hate crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going back to reclaim site of assault – solidarity events in DC, Chicago, NY
 
Rev. Josh Noblitt and his partner were attacked in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park on July 2. According to news reports, the attack started when they were accosted by three young men, who said “Are y’all gay? Two men laying on a blanket. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/07/umc-minister-attack-in-hate-crime/</link>
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		<title>A good day for marriage equality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge in Boston ruled a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional today. Two separate cases were before the district court. In Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, Judge Joseph Tauro ruled “DOMA violates the equal protection principles embodied in the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment,” reports Bay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/07/a-good-day-for-marriage-equality/</link>
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		<title>Gay Pride pix</title>
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		<title>Join us at the annual MIND picnic 7/24!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once a year in the summer MIND members and supporters gather without an agenda to not have a meeting. The goal is fellowship and fun, and of course, food! It’s a chance to restore our souls, get to know each other a little better and rejuvenate for the work we all do bring about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/06/join-us-at-the-annual-mind-picnic-724/</link>
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		<title>Annual conference 2010 photo gallery</title>
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		<title>Celebrate God’s LGBT Children at Gay Pride 6/27</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morning worship at five churches, afternoon march in NYC
Gay Pride Sunday – the last Sunday in June, commemorating the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1969 that sparked the modern gay rights movement – is celebrated every year the world over by LGBT people. It is our chance to take pride in who we are, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/06/celebrate-god%e2%80%99s-lgbt-children-at-gay-pride-627/</link>
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		<title>MIND says “Welcome Home” on final day of conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MIND participated in the “Momentum of Ministries” festival that was the highlight of the last day of the 2010 annual conference. The event, housed in three big circus tents outside the arena where the conference plenary sessions were held, drew thousands of new church members from throughout the New York Annual Conference. MIND’s theme for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/06/mind-says-%e2%80%9cwelcome-home%e2%80%9d-on-final-day-of-conference/</link>
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		<title>“Ministry to the Marginalized” ruled out of order at conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Legislative votes, MIND lunch part of packed day
 
The third day of annual conference had everything, from moving testimony to parliamentary wrangling, legislative victories and defeat and more. Our witness and challenge to the conference took many forms – t-shirts, armbands, speaking and singing.
The highlight of the day was Mark Miller’s address to a packed room [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/06/%e2%80%9cministry-to-the-marginalized%e2%80%9d-ruled-out-of-order-at-conference/</link>
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		<title>LGBT resolutions move forward on day two of conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main order of business on the second day of annual conference, Thursday, June 10, was discussion and debate of resolutions in legislative sections, and LGBT issues took center stage for most of the four hours that Section 3 met. The four resolutions that MIND had initiated and drafted were all passed and will come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mindny.org/2010/06/lgbt-resolutions-move-forward-on-day-two-of-conference/</link>
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