End Religion Based Bigotry - Faith In America - Full Equal Rights for Gay Lesbian Transgender Americans
Mitchell Gold - Founder of Faith in America
Join us today as we help Americans better understand the immense harm caused by religion-based bigotry against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. Together, we will bring about historic change.

Southern Baptist Minister Apologizes to Gays

A Southern Baptist minister in Gwinnett County Sunday took the church to task for what he said were its historic failures of condemning groups and individuals for their beliefs and lifestyles.

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Making a more comfortable world

Businessman-philanthropist speaks about advocacy for gay youth, religious tolerance at Chamber event

By John Wright Staff, Dallas Voice
March 27, 2008

Mitchell Gold says he has a passion for making the world more comfortable. But Gold, chairman and co-founder of luxury furniture manufacturer Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, isn’t just talking about the customers who buy the company’s products. He’s talking about his employees, their children, his buyers, and above all — LGBT youth.

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Religious Wright: A Stomach Virus for the Religious Right?

By Brent Childers, Executive Director
March 18, 2008

Lou Dobbs on Friday stated it made him sick to hear Rev. Jeremiah Wright's so-called hateful words against America coming from a pulpit. What's truly sickening is to see the most blatant attempt yet to interject racial division into the presidential campaign being spoon-fed to Americans under the guise of religion. That truly is damnable.

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The unspeakable truth behind ending a gay child's life

By Brent Childers, Executive Director
March 6, 2008

What Lawrence King might have grown up to be – a noted philospher like Kwame Anthony Appiah, a talented actor like Richard Chamberlain or a famous singer like Sir Elton John, we will never know. His hope and aspiration, two of American's most cherished religious and sociological ideals, were ended by a 14-year-old classmate who saw something threatening in young King because he had announced he was gay.

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Al Gore has the courage to speak the truth

By Mitchell Gold, Founder of Faith In America
January 24, 2008

Yesterday, former Vice-President Al Gore made a video clearly expressing his view that gay people should have full and equal rights....and that includes marriage. I would like to ask you to take a moment to concentrate on this letter during your busy day. It literally could help save some lives today and countless others in the future from the fear, isolation and depression that one faces as a young gay first realizing what your sexual orientation is.

Al Gore is the guy who more than 30 years ago warned America of the harms of global warming and not enough people took him seriously.   And the press did not do enough investigative journalism to educate the citizenry that this was in fact a serious issue.

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Clinton Talks About Gay Teens.

The Trevor Project

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Questions for the Candidates

Ask the Presidential Candidates a Question!Candidates for the Republican and Democratic nominations for the presidency are attending coffees, receptions, town hall meetings and other events in several key states: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, Florida and others. These events give citizens opportunities to ask the candidates questions. Faith In America wants to know which of the candidates will disavow religion-based bigotry and support full and equal civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens.

We developed the following list of questions for citizens to ask.  Please ask them if you have the opportunity and/or share them with people you know who may have the opportunity to ask them. These questions can be modified as appropriate or used to inspire similar questions. Please make sure the question is appropriate for the candidate to whom you’re asking it.

If you have the chance to ask one or more of these questions, let us know the answers you get (Brent@FaithInAmerica.com). We want to track the answers and hold the candidates accountable to them. Thanks!

Love and peace,
Brent Childers, Executive Director
Faith In America

Rev. Bennie Colclough: Can We Hear The Call for Change?


The African-American community should pay close attention to what Sen. Barack Obama has said about equality for gay and lesbian Americans and the correlation of religion-based bigotry and discrimination against African-Americans.

The struggle for justice, equality, and dignity for gay and lesbian Americans continues and Sen. Obama and other leaders have engaged the African-American faith community on this issue.

Are we listening? Click here to read more...