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  • Faith leaders urge tolerance of gays [No Longer Silent]

    06/09/2004 8:06:18 AM PDT · by Phx_RC · 37 replies · 133+ views
    East Valley Tribune [AZ] | June 9, 2004 | Lawn Griffiths
    Demanding that Catholic and other religious leaders include gays in the full life of the church, pastors on Tuesday nailed their controversial "Phoenix Declaration" to a symbolic door they want opened to allow gays to fully experience "God’s unconditional love." Their gesture sought to recreate what Reformation founder Martin Luther did in 1517 in nailing the "95 Theses" to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, to protest Catholic practices and abuses. Members of No Longer Silent/Clergy for Justice capped a news conference in Phoenix with the gesture to react to Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted’s ordering nine...