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This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1] Prior to that, the first abolitionist convention for women was held in New York City in 1837. [2]
The National Church Council agreed in a September ruling, but promised to bring forward another motion authorizing the local option for approval at the 2007 National Convention. In 2011, the National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada approved a motion that allows rostered ministers to "preside at or bless legal marriages ...
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts , the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including ...
Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848, Rochester, New York; National Women's Rights Convention, 1850, Worcester, Massachusetts, first of an annual series; Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, Salem, Ohio; Worcester Women's Rights Convention of 1851, Worcester, Massachusetts, second in the series; Syracuse Women's Rights Convention of ...
At its 2006 General Convention, the Episcopal Church rejected a resolution allowing the solemnization of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is recognized by civil law. However, the 2006 General Convention adopted a resolution under the title "Reaffirm Church Membership of Gay and Lesbian Persons."
For a 30-year period in the last century, Rev. Daniel Lord, S.J. preached his down-to-earth spirituality by distributing dozens of pamphlets on family life, children, and marriage directly to the people in parish churches." [6] Lord also staged musical pageants, among which was the "City of Freedom", held in Detroit in July 1951.
The Jesuit provinces were first organized into an "assistancy" (a regional grouping of provinces), [16] called the Jesuit Conference of the United States, in 1972. [17] A new, consolidated assistancy was created in 2014, called the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, under which all the provinces in the two countries are ...
Although the United States signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1980, it has never been ratified. [ 61 ] Many historians view the second wave feminist era in America as ending in the early 1980s with the Feminist Sex Wars , a split within the movement over issues such as sexuality and pornography.