An interfaith coalition called for clergy to advocate for greater acceptance of gay men and lesbians in their religious communities. Forty participants representing dozens of faith groups took part in the National Religious Leadership Roundtable, where they discussed strategies for challenging the influence of the religious right, which has mobilized in part “to impose their agenda on the rest of America,” said New York-based Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, one of two rabbis to participate at the meeting in Colorado Springs.
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