From: Marian McClure Taylor [marian.mcclure.taylor@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:08 PM
To: PATRICK DELAHANTY
Cc: Donald Vish; Kaye Gallagher
Subject: Re: summary of equipping project attached and inserted here
Thanks for this.
Because the KCC assembly is October 27-28 and Louisville's Festival of Faiths ensues plus election
day, I have the following dates showing as best for the fall: November 9, 10, 11, (12, 13 weekend)
14, 16, 17, 18. (I can't do the 15th)
If we are going to rely on out-of-state guests then it might be well to factor that into the
choice of two dates, giving them time to rest between two dates but not enough time to feel
they're having to spend too much time on the trip.
I agree that the time factor needs to be set. KCC board meetings run from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm to
give people travel time at both ends and something to eat; most participants are clergy, and it
works pretty well. People have a metabolic dip in mid afternoon so it might be a bit better to
speak of 10 to 2 if we can make this all happen in four hours -- and I'd like to see us try to do
that because it respects people's time.
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:02 AM, PATRICK DELAHANTY <delahantyp@bellsouth.net> wrote:
1 - Not sure that Marian and I would be the only persons looking at dates and venue. Others are
certainly welcome to offer suggestions. I believe we said this should be in the Fall after the KCC
meeting in October. So late Oct and early Nov would be my preferences. Gives us some time to
solicit people.
2 - Yes, we would use all our means of communication to find pastoral leaders who would attend.
Our eNews list and our mailing list would be used; then CCK has an advocacy list as does KCC. Kate
will be looking at ACLU lists to see if she can identify and pastoral leaders there. Sorry but I
can't figure out who JH is in your note below.
3 - Regarding the program we need to decide on its length. Can this be done in two to three
hours plus lunch? Or do we think it will require longer. I think we might want to have a
conference call with Stephen Dear, and maybe with Abe at NCADP and Dick Dieter at DPIC. Abe and
Stephen would be separate calls due to some friction there. The purpose of the calls would be to
solicit input from them about what the workshop might look like. It may be we bring in Dieter to
discuss his research and what talking points are best.
Included Marian in this email so we have the advantage of her thoughts.
Pat
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From: Donald Vish <donaldvish@att.net>
To: PATRICK DELAHANTY <delahantyp@bellsouth.net>; Kaye Gallagher <kcadp@earthlink.net>
Sent: Fri, April 29, 2011 6:07:55 PM
Subject: Re: summary of equipping project attached and inserted here
OK. So
(1) dates, places and venue will be handled by you and Marian;
(2) idenitification of clergy participants and invitations to pariciapnts will be done by our
enews participants, PD, JH, MT, DK and other voltunteers;
(3) Staff will (i) design curriculum; (ii) prepare talking points; (iii) identify presetners.
This aspect may have three parts: what do we say, what do we do and how do we do it?
Please elaborate on job descriptions so we will know who's doing what.
DV
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From: PATRICK DELAHANTY <delahantyp@bellsouth.net>
To: Donald Vish <donaldvish@att.net>; Kaye Gallagher <kcadp@earthlink.net>
Sent: Fri, April 29, 2011 4:04:06 PM
Subject: Fw: summary of equipping project attached and inserted here
Don and Kaye, here are the email exchanges between myself and Marian about the plan to education
religious leaders on advocacy. So I take it from the meeting at Kaye's recently, we can now pursue
this. So any ideas on how we proceed and get this up and running. I think we could begin by asking
our eNews folks to speak to pastors about their beliefs on the death penalty and if they are
opposed to see if they might want some training. Our prolife and social concerns committees meet
in May and I can bring it up there.
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From: Marian McClure Taylor <marian.mcclure.taylor@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Delahanty <delahantyp@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 11:14:13 AM
Subject: Re: summary of equipping project attached and inserted here
Sounds good.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Patrick Delahanty <delahantyp@bellsouth.net> wrote:
That sounds good. I think I want to talk to Don and Kaye first about who does this. Since we
have staff we should use them. Then we need to help find them volunteers and Jason and I may be
two of them to begin contacting clergy. Goal is still at least 1 pastor from each of the 100
legislative districts; plus I can bring this to the may mtgs of the prolife and social concerns
committees and see if any members want to be volunteers or if they might take on their respective
dioceses for recruitment of pastors.
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From: Marian McClure Taylor [mailto:marian.mcclure.taylor@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 9:06 AM
To: Patrick Delahanty
Subject: Re: summary of equipping project attached and inserted here
I edited the project concept draft to adjust the amount down to $3000. Attached.
I found in our notes that the Justice Commission gave us a green light and asked for a plan to
be brought back:
"Death Penalty
Decision: We want to do more to equip church-based advocates for abolition, and so we will
work to have an event for such people from as many parts of Kentucky as possible. We will
investigate what has been done elsewhere along these lines, and work with the Kentucky Coalition
for the Abolition of the Death Penalty (KCADP) to bring back a proposed plan."
So maybe the next step is for KCADP to designate a lead person for coordinating this project
to whom you and I can send a few strong volunteers like Dan Kreutzer, and with whom you and I
could communicate about the choice of dates and venues. How does that sound?
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Patrick Delahanty <delahantyp@bellsouth.net> wrote:
OK – our Board is good with this, at $3000. One member did think we might want to do one in
Western KY. I think we leave the question of how many to do open.
What is next step?
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From: Marian McClure Taylor [mailto:marian.mcclure.taylor@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 12:07 PM
To: The Rev. Patrick Delahanty
Subject: summary of equipping project attached and inserted here
FURTHER EQUIPPING CHURCH LEADERS WHO OPPOSE THE DEATH PENALTY IN KENTUCKY
Purpose:
There is a need to equip spokespersons for churches more effectively to advocate an end to the
death penalty in Kentucky. This project will sponsor an event for this purpose that will take
place in two different parts of Kentucky. Attendance will be actively promoted with the goal of
equipping someone from as many as 100 different electoral districts of the KY legislature. Those
who attend will already want to end the death penalty and will be open to training and mutual
coordination in that effort.
Lead partner:
The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is the lead partner. As the lead partner,
KCADP will take on responsibility for the content of the two equipping/training events, set the
logistical and expense parameters (place, time, speakers, menu, travel subsidies, etc) enter into
any needed contracts and make payments. The KCADP would provide the coordination of all parties to
the events.
Supporting partners:
Two supporting partners for the project are the KCC and the CCK. They will provide information
about leaders to invite, will use their communications systems to promote the events, and will
help recruit volunteers and/or interns.
- The Kentucky Council of Churches has a policy statement that permits opposition to any and
all uses of capital punishment. Twelve Christian traditions have member judicatories that belong
to the Council and have churches in Kentucky. These members include the four Catholic dioceses
that also support the work of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky. The Justice Commission of the
Council will be asked to endorse the proposed events and in so doing to authorize the sharing of
contact information and other uses of the Council’s communications infrastructure.
- The Catholic Conference of Kentucky in addition to agreeing to the KCC policy statement has
its own tradition and commitments in the abolition area. It has two committees who will be asked
for volunteers to assist with the two events of this project.
Some initial thoughts about the two events:
- They would either end or begin with lunch and last a half-day.
- Berea might be a good site for the eastern event. The KCC has some good contacts
there.
- The tentative budget at this point is at most $6,000.
- Stephen Deere might be brought in as a speaker.
- Volunteers to work under KCADP coordination could be given geographical areas in
which to work for promotion purposes. For instance, Fr. Dan Kreutzer of the Owensboro Diocese of
the Catholic Church has ties to both the KCC and the CCK and could promote the event in both
Catholic and Protestant circles in western Kentucky.
o Draft of April 11, 2011
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