Love Welcomes All conference planned
On Saturday, May 6th, at the First Congregational Church of Fort Lauderdale, United Church of Christ, 2501 NE 30th St., the South Florida GLBT and Friends Interfaith Clergy Association, and Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) will sponsor Love Welcomes All.
The conference, taking place from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm, is designed to provide an alternative message to Focus on the Family’s “Love Won Out” conference, scheduled for the same day at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.
Love Welcomes All will feature nationally recognized researchers and clergy such as the Reverend Elder Nori Rost and Dr. Jack Drescher, who will speak on the harm caused by so-called “reparative therapy”, a method purported to make gay people straight.
Love Welcomes All will encourage responsible men and women from all walks of life not to remain silent while members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community, especially the youth, are called “sinful, disordered, perverted, unnatural, or trapped” by groups like Focus on the Family.
The message of Love Welcomes All is that all people deserve respect and dignity as full members of our community and society. Furthermore, it maintains there is nothing wrong with being gay or homosexual, that a person’s sexual orientation is not in need of change, but is to be affirmed as an essential part of their humanity.
For more information or to register contact Marc Paige at 401-837-6818 or at marcpaige@msn.com