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Duane Jennings – Interfaith Planning Committee Chair Board member of Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons 801/486-6977 or UtahSoulforce  aol.com
Saturday, June 3, 2006 3:00 pm Library Plaza/George Washington Square Held in conjunction with Utah Gay Pride Join Us June 3 for a celebration of Spirit and Community! Address: 200 East between 3rd and 4th South at Library Square for an outdoor service that will consist of music, prayers and presentations that celebrate our spirituality and sexuality as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons (GLBT), with our families and friends. The service will last approximately one hour. After the service, we will have refreshments and hold a social. Come join GLBT people from various faith traditions, as we celebrate not only who we are, but also what we believe and value. For more information, please visit www.utahprideinterfaith.org. Participants: Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons Catholic Congregation Kol Ami (Jewish) Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans First Unitarian Church of Salt Lake City Gamofites Integrity Utah (Episcopal) Kanzeon Zen Center LDS Reconciliation Sacred Light of Christ Metropolitan Community Church of Salt Lake City PFLAG and Family Fellowship More Light Presbyterians Ministry The Restoration Church of Jesus Christ South Valley Unitarian Universalists United Church of Christ - Holladay United Church of Religious Science - Salt Lake City Unitarian Universalists Church of Ogden Several other unaffiliated faith groups of Christian, Jewish, Non-Denominational, Pagan, Native American, and Eastern Traditions For information regarding all the Utah Pride activities, checkout www.utahpride.org 
Why An Interfaith Service? It is erroneously and tragically thought by many gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people (GLBT), especially GLBT youth, that on the event of their "coming-out" they lose all rights to consider themselves people of faith, spiritual and capable of holiness. Many mainstream churches teach and believe that being gay or transgendered is sinful, therefore, it is not surprising that religion is often one of the first appendages of one's old life abandoned by the person who is newly identifying oneself as a member of the GLBT community. As an interfaith community we come together from many diverse faiths and cultures, to proclaim loudly and proudly that such is not the case! The Utah Pride Interfaith Committee firmly believes, that each GLBT individual is a being of love, made as we are. We proclaim that the Divine, regardless of how one sees the Creator, embraces us all and delights fully in our being. Being gay or transgendered or lesbian or bisexual is no more a sin than what being heterosexual is. It is who we are, and who we are is Holy. Interfaith Celebration History 2005 Pride Interfaith Celebration Holy People; Equal Rites Saturday, June 11th, 2005, starting 6:00 pm First Baptist Church 2004 Pride Service Commitments of the Heart: Spirituality, Relationships, Community Saturday June 12, 2004, 6:00 pm Wasatch Presbyterian 2003 Interfaith Service Coming Out to God: Celebrating Who We Are Saturday, June 7, 2003, at 7:00 pm. Synagogue Kol Ami 2002 Interfaith Service A Celebration of Hope and Healing Saturday, June 8, 2002 at 7:00 pm Cathedral Church of St. Marks Episcopal Church |
www.affirmation.org