People of Faith Against the Death Penalty banquet in Portland -- OADP

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Aug 20, 2013, 1:10:03 PM8/20/13

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For Immediate Release Aug 19, 2013

Oregon religious leaders gather to oppose the death penalty

Religious leaders and members from a number of Oregon’s religious communities will gather on October 16 for a public banquet in support of the abolition of the death penalty at Portland’s First United Methodist Church. The “People of FaithAgainst the Death Penalty” banquet is sponsored by Oregonians for Alternatives to Death Penalty (OADP) and will begin at 5:30PM, with a reception preceding dinner.First United Methodist Church is located, at SW 18th and Jefferson in Portland.

“An interfaith gathering of this type in support of the abolition of the death penalty makes public an important moral position held in common by many religious movements and traditions in this country. This gathering offers an unprecedented opportunity to network with Oregon’s religious leadership and strengthen our common mission to end the use of capital punishment in Oregon,” says David Leslie, Executive Director of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO) one of the evening’s co-sponsors.

It is anticipated that bishops, executive ministers, rabbis and other religious leadership council members representing the Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Roman Catholic Church, United Church of Christ, Church of the Brethren, American Baptist Church, United Methodist Church, Jewish, Mennonite, Muslim, Sikh, Unitarian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Buddhist and Society of Friends (Quakers) will be in attendance. Religious statements against the death penalty will be shared and people in attendance will have a chance to learn how they and their congregations and faith communities can become involved in organizing around this issue.

“In the six states that have repealed their death penalty in the past six years, people of faith have played leading roles in those efforts”, stated Ron Steiner, of OADP, the sponsoring organization. Steiner continued to say, “We expect that to be the case in Oregon as well. We are staging this event to share the teachings of various faiths, display unity around the issue and broaden and strengthen our interfaith network for future advocacy legislative and initiative efforts.”

Tickets will go on sale Sept 3rd. Reserved tables of eight will be available for $320. Individual tickets are $40. For more information or to reserve a table, call (503) 990-7060 or email rste...@swcp.com For more information about Oregonians Against the Death Penalty, visit www.oadp.org.

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From: <rste...@swcp.com>
Date: August 20, 2013 7:12:25 PDT
To: <jzimm...@uuma.org>
Cc: <gea...@gmail.com>
Subject: OADP

Dear Judy,

Below is a link to our Aug newsletter......

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/817111/1346658c05/TEST/TEST/

Also attached is the press release that just went out last evening. We will
start to sell tickets Sept 3rd. If you could help line up a table of two of UU
folks, that would be great. Want to give Rick Davis some support.

John Gear is copied here, but since you are in Portland it may be easier for you
to handle that. John had two tables for our Salem event in May.

Peace,
Ron