The editor of the UK’s only gay humanist magazine has weighed into the debate over calls by two of the country’s leading churchmen for people not to vote for the British National Party (BNP).
Thursday, 07 May 2009 12:39
The TUC will join human rights organisations, academics and faith communities to address the growing problems of homophobia and transphobia, at a conference in London next week - on Saturday 16 May.The TUC-sponsored conference – Faith, Homophobia, Transphobia and Human Rights – follows up an initial meeting on homophobia in the faith community in 2007, which was supported by 52 organisations and attended by 250 delegates.
The conference aims to build an alliance between people of faith and those concerned with social equality. During the day there will be a discussion on the use of faith to obstruct equality, and debates on loopholes in equality law in workplaces and schools, and the issue of homophobia and transphobia in faith schools.
Read more: Time to tackle homophobia in faith community, says TUC
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