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Compiled by GayToday
Colorado Springs, Colorado--The National Religious Leadership Roundtable, a national
network of leaders of faith, spiritual and religious organizations who affirm gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender (GLBT) equality, met last week in Colorado Springs.
A public forum, Spirituality and Sexuality: In the Image of God, was held. Over 200 people attended, including a handful from Focus on the Family, a right-wing anti-gay religious organization located in Colorado Springs. Co-convened by Equal Partners in Faith and the Policy Institute of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Religious Leadership Roundtable includes more than 30 national representatives from a wide array of faith traditions.
Their letter requested the opportunity to meet with him and issued a challenge to him to tone down his hateful rhetoric against GLBT people. In part the letter reads, "Like Dr. Dobson and his colleagues, we are people of faith committed to empowering whole and healthy families. In that spirit, we ask Dr. Dobson to meet with us, to hear our case, and together, to being a process of seeking truth about homosexuality and homosexuals." Rev. Mel White, an Advisory Board Member of Equal Partners in Faith and co-chair of Soulforce, Inc. added, "I want to be clear that we support Dr. Dobson's right to preach his conscience about homosexuality. The statement released is a plea that he stop the dangerous anti- homosexual messages that divide families and cause suffering." |
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