Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons

Members of the Task Force’s National Religious Leaders Roundtable who read the statement (R-L): Nicole Garcia, representative of Lutherans Concerned; George Cole, Assistant Executive Director of Affirmation; Howard I. Solomon, President of the World Congress of LGBT Jews; the Rev. Dr. Yvette A. Flunder, Presiding Bishop of The Fellowship.

Statement by the National Religious Leadership Roundtable
Co-Signed by Affirmation at the Creating Change Conference Sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

See also Affirmation Leaders Attend LGBT Equality Conference

February 2009

Whereas religious conservatives are on the forefront of anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activism;

Whereas progressive LGBT and allied people of faith have to be at the forefront of the movement for LGBT equality and liberation, that their voices are fully heard and their experience working with the faith communities validated in order to counter faith-based anti-LGBT activism;

Whereas the Obama administration announced a range of policy shifts in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and our families and communities; which will provoke ongoing resistance from religious conservatives;

Therefore, we of the National Religious Leadership Roundtable at the 2009 National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change in Denver, Colorado, urge our own mainstream LGBT organizations to prioritize work with faith communities and in all planning assure the presence of LGBT faith leaders with an equal and fully empowered seat at the table.