Clergy Call for Justice & Equality 2009
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced launch of Clergy Call 2009, a year-long educational effort to facilitate faith-based mobilization within congregations and local communities. During 2009, HRC will support faith-based trainings throughout the country with a particular targeted emphasis on transgender education in 40 communities. The trainings will lead into the national Clergy Call event May 4-5, 2009 and will propel faith leaders to organize and advocate locally for GLBT equality.
The theme for Clergy Call 2009, “Moving from Acceptance to Advocacy,” reflects the vision of a faith-based movement for GLBT equality built from the ground up: in local churches, synagogues, mosques. The series of trainings will utilize HRC’s faith-based Transgender Curriculum and Online Resource written by transgender religious educators and edited by Rev. Chris Glaser. The curriculum will also include an accessible biblical piece, “Gender Identity and the Bible.”
Clergy Call will take place May 4-5, 2009 in Washington, DC. For the first day we will learn from one another and diverse national leaders about the current public policy issues facing the LGBT community, how to enhance the welcoming nature of our congregations, and build broad clergy coalitions to achieve justice for all. The evening will conclude with powerful interfaith service. Day two we will ascend to Capitol Hill to advocate for justice and equality in our nation’s laws.
