Faith in America non-profit confronts religion-based bigotry | San Diego Gay & Lesbian News
A pretty good read on religious efforts to confront and combat religion based anti-gay bigotry.
At the first CNN/YouTube Presidential Primary Debate in Charleston, S.C., in 2007, the Rev. Reggie Longcrier, Faith in America supporter and pastor of Exodus Mission and Outreach Church in Hickory, N.C., asked then Democratic candidate John Edwards “Why is it still acceptable to use religion to deny gay Americans their full and equal rights?”
The question, following Edward’s statement of opposition to same-sex marriage in relation to his Southern Baptist background, drew the loudest applause of any question according to audience members at the debate.
Mitchell Gold, who in 2005 founded Faith in America, a non-profit organization with the goal of counter-messaging prejudices toward the LGBT population by religious institutions, contends that “political and religious leaders have long sold discrimination under the guise of religious beliefs and religious teachings, and that religion-based bigotry is the number one impediment to full equality for lesbians and gays.”