From Lutheran Advocacy Ministry in PA (https://www.lutheranadvocacypa.org/):
More than half a million LGBTQ Pennsylvanians are vulnerable to discrimination every day because of a lack of express and enduring protections at the state level.
Sign a faith leader letter at https://pavalues.org/faith/ in support of nondiscrimination legislation.
Pennsylvania remains the only state in the Northeast without an inclusive statewide nondiscrimination law. Passage of protections in Pennsylvania is a critical step to ensure LGBTQ people are treated with dignity in employment, housing, and public spaces.
The seven Pennsylvania bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released a letter in support of legislation that would prohibit discrimination such discrimination.
“At this moment there is an opportunity for us to add our voices in support of a piece of legislation that could provide continuing legal protection for one particularly vulnerable group of our people,” the bishops state in their letter “Fairness for All Pennsylvanians.”
The letter points to the imagery of the “peaceable kingdom,” described in Isaiah 11:6, in which “the wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them.”
The words anticipate a renewal of all creation in which the identity of each creature remains but none experiences any harm from the others.
“It is the fulfillment of this vision for which people of faith yearn, and toward which they call their neighbors,” the bishops say in the letter. “The work of public advocacy, at its best, replaces the timid silence of resignation to what is, with a bold voice giving expression to what could be.”
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