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Meet up with us and ORAM at Creating Change!
Creating Change (http://creatingchange.org/) in Baltimore, MD, January 25-28, 2012, will be a great opportunity to connect with Max, Chris, and others who are thinking about mobilizing faith-based support for LGBT Asylum and Refugee concerns. Max is now working with ORAM … Continue reading
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What the Initiative Needs…
The Faith-Based LGBT Asylum Initiative is just getting started. We are talking with a few people who have been working in relative isolation and need to find a way to build connections. Some initial thoughts about resources we need include: … Continue reading
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About LGBT Asylum Seekers
Transgender and same-gender-loving (lesbian, gay, bisexual) asylum seekers who reach the U.S. are typically traumatized, unable to access support from their country(wo)men in the U.S., and unable to work, while their asylum case is being heard. Like other asylum seekers, … Continue reading
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About the NEW Sanctuary Movement
On January 29, 2007 representatives from 18 cities, 12 religious traditions and 7 denominational and interdenominational organizations joined together to listen to the experience of immigrant families fighting deportation, and to strategize how to protect parents and children from being torn … Continue reading
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About the Sanctuary Movement (1980s)
In the early 1980’s, thousands of Central American refugees poured into the United States, fleeing life-threatening repression and extensive human rights violations by their governments. At the time, federal immigration policy would have denied the majority political asylum simply because … Continue reading
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About LGBT-friendly Congregations
There are hundreds of LGBT-friendly congregations around the world. The Institute for Welcoming Resources (a mult-faith resource affiliated with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) maintains a directory of congregations. In some faith traditions, a congregation may face serious sanctions, … Continue reading
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LGBT Struggles Globally
The violence resulting from homophobia and anti-homosexuality laws in many countries in the world is rampant. These laws also impact transgender people who are often misunderstood to be gay or lesbian. Did you know that… There are laws against homosexuality … Continue reading
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About Asylum Seekers
Asylum seekers are one of the most vulnerable groups of immigrants in America. Forced to flee their homeland, most arrive in the United States without any protected legal status. When they arrive, they cannot legally work in the United States. … Continue reading
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What is Asylum?
Since 1994 the U.S. Department of Justice has allowed individuals who are persecuted because of their sexual orientation to seek sanctuary in the United States through a process called political asylum. A non-United States citizen can seek political asylum in … Continue reading
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Why a Faith-Based LGBT Asylum Initiative?
Transgender and same-gender-loving (lesbian, gay, bisexual) asylum seekers who reach the U.S. are typically traumatized, unable to access support from their country(wo)men in the U.S., and unable to work, while their asylum case is being heard. While they pursue asylum, … Continue reading
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Faith-Based LGBT Asylum Initiative 