GLBT Religious Leaders Hold Ohio Roundtable

From a well-written article about GLBT religious groups' struggle for acceptance in churches:

“Ohio really became the center of the storm of controversy on this whole moral values business,” he noted, indicating that one of the purposes of the Roundtable was to ensure that there was more than one religious voice on “moral values.”

“There’s a rather pervasive assumption that you’ve got religious people here on one side, and LGBT people over here on this other side,” he noted, saying that the Roundtable tries to “amplify the voices of the progressive religious community.”

Another conference attendee commented on the Catholic Church under the new Pope:

...teams visiting the seminaries are giving out surveys with 50 questions, many of which are designed to ferret out gay men.

“It certainly gives a clear indication of a brewing witch hunt, which is not what the church needs today,” she said. “LGBT people have served the church well for centuries. Gay men have serves [sic] as priests for centuries and continue to feel the calling, yet the Vatican appears to be about to slam the door on these gay would-be seminarians.”