Beyond the Blame Game 2.0: Navigating Challenges & Opportunities

Thanks for participating in today’s learning session presented by PFLAG National and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding. On this page you’ll find a list of materials that correspond to the learning objectives in today’s session. Want to provide feedback on this session? Still have questions about the content? Send us an e-mail at [email protected] or [email protected] today.

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Download Tanenbaum handouts: 

• 10 Bias Danger Signs 

• Respectful Communication

• Trigger Topics 

• What American Workers Really Think About Religion: Tanenbaum’s 2013 Survey of American Workers and Religion 

• Tanenbaum Workplace Resources

Download Straight for Equality Resources:

• be not afraid — help is on the way: straight for equality in faith communities 

• 10 things you can do as an ally of faith 

• the guide to being a straight ally 

• 10 things you can do to be an ally  

• the guide to being a trans ally 

• 10 things you can do to be a trans ally

Find a PFLAG group in your community:

• Find a PFLAG chapter in the US

• Find a PFLAG group globally

• Learn more about PFLAG Connects Communities meetings 

LGBTQ+ Inclusive Religious Organizations:

• Imaan

• Keshet

• Metropolitan Community Church

• Gay & Lesbian Vaishnava Association

• Gay Buddhist Fellowship

• Twilight People

• …and more

Partner Organizations:

• ILGA World – The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association 

• Out Now Global 

• The Public Religion and Research Institite 

• Religion in the United States: The Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project 

• The Williams Institute

Research: 

• Religiosity Amount LGBT Adults in the US

• Lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans are less religious than straight adults by traditional measures

• A Survey of LGBT Americans

• Broad Support for LGBT Rights Across all 50 States

• Exodus: Why Americans are Leaving Religion—and Why They’re Unlikely to Come Back

• A Shifting Landscape: A Decade of Change in American Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage and LGBT Issues

• Majority of Americans Oppose Transgender Bathroom Restrictions

• Most American Christians Believe They’re Victims of Discrimination

• Religious Landscape Study: Views About Homosexuality

• Partisan Antipathy: More Intense, More Personal

• A closer look at America’s rapidly growing religious ‘nones’

• Emerging Consensus on LGBT Issues: Findings from the 2017 American Values Atlas 

• The Arab world in seven charts: Are Arabs turning their backs on religion?

• Wedding Cakes, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Future of LGBT Rights in America

• Who Are LGBTQ Americans? Here’s A Major Poll On Life, Sex, and Politics

• Gay Americans don’t identify with faith groups, but most still believe in God

News Articles:

• Tennessee’s anti-gay marriage bill sparks bipartisan criticism

• Devil in the detail of SCOTUS ruling on workplace bias puts LGBTQ rights and religious freedrom on collision course

• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas says gay rights, contraception rulings should be reconsidered after Roe is overturned

• Michigan Settlement Lets Faith Agencies Deny LGBT Adoptions

• Pronouns Spur Fight Over Transgender, Religious Work Rights

• Faith, LGBTQ Rights Collide At Supreme Court 

• Most Americans seen backing LGBT+ rights, but religion still a flashpoint 

• Religion, LGBT Rights Again on Collision Course at High Court 

• EEOC Tiptoes Around Religion, LGBT Rights in Proposed Guidance 

• How QAnon uses religion to lure unsuspecting Christians 

• More conservative Supreme Court faces major dispute pitting religious freedom against LGBTQ rights 

• Opinion | No, religion is not antithetical to liberalism

• The Democratic Party Is Not Antithetical to Religion