Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Jewish leaders unite to condemn Orlando shootings

[rug]

Multifaith religious leaders have united to condemn the attacks in Orlando.



(Picture by George A Anastassatos)

Nick Duffy
13th June 2016, 1:44 PM

50 people were killed and 53 injured yesterday in the shocking terrorist hate crime attack, which saw a gunman open fire inside The Pulse gay bar in Orlando, Florida.

ISIS has since claimed responsibility for the attack, which was perpetrated by US citizen Omar Mateen. The majority of the victims were Latino.

Religious leaders from across the spectrum had gathered in Nevada over the weekend in Reno for an interfaith conference.

After the attack took place, leaders of Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Baha’i, Native American and Atheist traditions gathered in South Reno United Methodist Church to strongly condemn the attack.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/06/13/christian-muslim-hindu-buddhist-and-jewish-leaders-unite-to-condemn-orlando-shootings/

[Silver_Witch]

1. Too little too late!

Religious need to admit they were wrong for promoting hate against gays and woman. Then I will listen!

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2. Want to shoo them off?

[skepticscott]

5. Exactly..condemnation after the fact (for the umpteenth time)

is easy. All it takes is a canned press release or a staged news conference with the appropriate boilerplate language.

[exboyfil]

3. Still those sodomites are going to burn in hell

at least according to three of the religions represented.

[hrmjustin]

4. I am gay and religious. I certainly hope this shows the religious people that teach we are a sin...

... that they have blood on their hands. I hope it teaches them to accept us.

We shall see!

[skepticscott]

6. I doubt this will teach

the catholic church that. They will continue their teaching that gays are "inherently disordered".

I expect there will be a few people on this thread who believe that, but will neither admit it nor deny it.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Hey, the catholics are 4% points friendlier than Mormons, and 5% friendlier than Muslims.

We can't ask TOO much all at once, now, can we?

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Be nice if they'd gotten together to normalize and support the LGBT community BEFORE.

When hate could have been defused.



All very nice to get together and bobble head around about how much we all deplore this incident, but until they FIX THAT FUCKING GRAPH it's going to happen again because they are sowing the seeds of hate.

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/06/13/a-survey-of-lgbt-americans/