The gesture was intended to make headlines, and it did. On January 18, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) called a news conference to announce that 850 clergy and religious workers endorsed its “Religious Declaration on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing.” Reporters around the country dutifully took note.
Related Elsewhere
See our news coverage of the SIECUS statement, “One Thousand Scholars and Clergy Call for Full Acceptance of Homosexuals in Churches | Liberal Protestants dominate signatory list” (Jan. 31, 2000)Read the full text of the declaration and a list of endorsements at SIECUS’s Religion Project site.
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