for what reason do you find out what mainstream religious leaders really think about same-sex marriage? Ask them.

for what reason do you find out what mainstream religious leaders really think about same-sex marriage? Ask them, said the organizers of an issue titled "Moving the Religious Middle forward Marriage Equality," held at the San Francisco LGBT Community Center March 20-21

"It wasn't a lovefest" said Rabbi Jack Moline of Virginia's Agudas Achim, a conservative synagogue. "But to everyone's delight, there was a apportionment more goodwill on both sides than everyone presumed"

The event's goal, said Moline, was to build a broad-based coalition forward marriage equality by starting a conversation with the "religious middle," those Muslim, Jewish, and Christian leaders who have advance partway across the bridge to satiated acceptance of gay and lesbian relationships. "One topic was by what means to engage the religious community rather than chastise them," said Moline.

That includes demonstrating that the gay community wants to be inclusive, said the venerable Leonard Jackson of Los Angeles's First African Methodist Episcopal body of christians and past president of the looks Angeles Council of Churches. "The so-called religious majority would rather diocese the LGBT community exclude them than include them," he said. "But they must remember that [gay people] are all someone's children. It's our parents, our sisters, and our brothers that make up the majority of these faith communities."

Joining Moline and Jackson in succession the panel of speakers were Bishop Yvette Flunder senior pastor and establisher of the San Francisco inner-city congregation City of contrivance United Church of Christ; and the venerable Welton Gaddy, Interfaith Alliance president. The incident co-organized by the Alliance and the San Francisco--based Horizons Foundation, drew a passionate and enthusiastic multitude said Horizons spokeswoman Julie Dorf.

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