LGBT Faith Leaders Got Together To Combat Religious Homophobia; 5 Takeaways

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Some 200 faith organizers attended a summit ahead of the anti-LGBT meeting of the World Congress of Families.

By Eliel Cruz
October 24 2015 11:45 AM EDT

With the notoriously anti-LGBT conference for the World Congress of Families to be hosted nearby a week later, some 200 faith organizers got together to combat religious homophobia.

The National LGBTQ Task Force hosted the Faith & Family LGBTQ Power Summit in Salt Lake City this week with leaders from 33 states gathered for the four-day power summit. The planning committee wanted to unite both LGBTQ people of faith and those non-religious to combat religious homophobia.

"This conference lifts up the light: you can be fully (a person of faith])and LGBTQ. We must stop the exportation of hatred and homophobia to Africa," clergyman Bishop Tolton said in a press conference. "We understand the issues are interconnected.... We want to build a campaign to lift up light and hope."

The power summit equipped faith organizers with tools to address religious homophobia both domestically and internationally. Here are a few areas they addressed:

http://www.advocate.com/religion/2015/10/24/lgbt-faith-leaders-got-together-combat-religious-homophobia-5-takeaways

http://www.thetaskforce.org/utah-faith-family-lgbtq-summit/

[Warren Stupidity]

1. takeaway belief in revealed bullshit would be a huge step forward.

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2. You know, warren, your ingrained bias against religion is completely irrelevant to what thy're doing

Your comment can be cut and pasted into virtually any article about religion. With the precise same impact.

[Yorktown]

3. Faith leaders? Combat homophobia? A contradiction in terms.

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4. I see. You are telling gay people who have faith that they cannot combat religios homophobia.

Your arrogance aside, good luck with that.

http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/academy/tf_faith_in_action_toolkit_v3.pdf

[Yorktown]

5. Again, a nice misrepresentation of what I wrote

Your tricks are getting old.

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6. I see. So you support gay people who have faith who combat religios homophobia?

Even though it is a contradiction in terms.

[Yorktown]

7. Keep spinning yarns

Not very interesting, but not bothering me.

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8. It's your spin on actions you don't like at al.