Interfaith and Multi-faith Web Resource Links
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) is a recently established center of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. The Center serves three distinct but overlapping constituencies: the world of academic religious scholarship; faith communities; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and organizations. CLGS is purposed toward developing programming in each of four major areas: Research, Resourcing, Education for Leadership, and Community-Building/Advocacy. All programming works to carry out the Center's fundamental mission:To advance the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and to transform faith communities and the wider society by taking a leading role in shaping a new public discourse on religion and sexuality through education, research, community building and advocacy. The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies' (CLGS) Marriage Project is a resource for the general public, clergy, members of congregations, and the press. This website provides scholarly and religious resources on marriage in the United States with the aim of promoting views of marriage that are more open, more just, and more inclusive of all citizens regardless of sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Clergy for Fairness
The purpose of this website is to organize clergy members and religious leaders who strongly oppose any attempt to write discrimination into the United States Constitution. The Federal Marriage Amendment has been soundly defeated in both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. We would like to thank all of the clergy members and religious leaders that helped to defeat this misguided piece of legislation. Although the amendment clearly lacks the support necessary for its enactment, it likely will be reintroduced as a wedge issue in the future. Clergy for Fairness will continue its work to ensure that the Federal Marriage Amendment is never allowed to be included in our Constitution.
Institute for Welcoming Resources
Denominational representatives of the Welcoming Church Movement created IWR in November 2002. The purpose of this ecumenical group is to provide the resources to facilitate a paradigm shift in multiple denominations whereby churches become welcoming and affirming of all congregants regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity. IWR wants to help build church homes that are truly welcoming and nurturing, where everyone knows "they're okay, just like they are." In early 2006, IWR became a program of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, through a formal merger.
Interfaith Working Group
We (IWG) believe that the characterization of religion as inherently conservative, and the subsequent portrayal of social debates as disagreements between the religious and the irreligious undermine faith in religious institutions and the ideal of religious diversity. Our mission is to inform the public of the diversity of religious opinion on social issues where it is not widely recognized by providing a voice and a forum for religious organizations, congregations and clergy who support equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people; reproductive freedom; and the separation of church and state.
Multifaith Alliance of Reconciling Communities (MARC)
The Multifaith Alliance of Reconciling Communities (MARC) has been a [Seattle] Multifaith Works program since March 2000. MARC is an alliance of non-official persons from a wide variety of faith communities who are working to make the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered/questioning (GLBTQ) community aware that there are faith communities who are open, welcoming, reconciling and accepting of them. MARC also encourages faith communities to become open, welcome, reconciling and accepting of GLBT persons and can help congregations with this process.
Religious Coalition for Equality
The Religious Coalition for Equality is an interfaith association of lay persons and clergy committed to this twofold purpose: to educate Washington State citizens about and to advocate for marriage equality for all couples and the civil rights of all.
Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry (Massachusetts)
The Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry is a Massachusetts group of more than 700 rabbis, ministers, and faith leaders, as well as congregations and faith-based organizations from 23 faith traditions. We support civil marriage rights for same-sex couples and families as a matter of religious freedom and civil rights. We help citizens understand the distinction between civil and religious marriage. We provide religious support and pastoral care for same-sex couples and families as well as educational programs and projects that support the full inclusion of same-sex families into our society.