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Cleveland ministers seek to put new domestic partner registry up for vote [video]

”There are so many things they could be doing. Why are they not putting their energies on real issues that affect families like health care, education and homelessness?”

Reverend John Tamilio III is pastor of Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ Church, a gay-inclusive church, that objects to the efforts of other Cleveland, OH ministers to remove the city’s new domestic partner registry that would benefit gays, lesbians and other unmarried couples. (WKYC)

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