Sexual and Gender Diversity Enriching To All, Ordained Minister Says

Sexual and gender diversity enriches us all, says an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and Executive director of the Religious Institute, a multifaith organization dedicated to sexual health and justice.

Religious organizations and people frequently lead opposition to gay rights in the United States, said Debra W. Haffner:

In the August ruling which overturned California's Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage, a witness asserted, "Religion is the chief obstacle for gay and lesbian political progress."


Why does religion play such a central role in debates about homosexuality?
Last week on this blog, I challenged clergy across the country:
What if ...all of us told them from our pulpits how heartbroken we are by Tyler Clementi's suicide and that we want to make sure that no young person in our community would ever feel such despair?

Haffner continues --