Reforming Sex by Rolodex

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.

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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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