First, you need to contact your elected state senator and representative and let them know that North Carolina should not be a state that embraces bringing harm to bear on gay and lesbian individuals or any other population within its citizenry. Ask them to please not put North Carolina’s gay youth, their families and others in harm’s way.
*** You can find contact information for your local state representative here
*** You can find contact information for your local state senator here
• Encourage your friends, family, co-workers and those in your faith community to also contact their representatives in Raleigh.
• Write a letter to-the-editor briefly stating your opposition to any attempt by our elected officials to promote religion-based bigotry toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens of North Carolina.
• Talk to your pastor and let him or her how you feel about using church teaching to promote attitudes of rejection and condemnation and how harmful that can be to those around you.
• Begin a conversation at home, in the workplace, in your faith community about religion-based bigotry and the immense pain it causes individuals and society. Help us educate people about its history and its clear moral mandate to oppose such oppression. Use Mitchell Gold’s book “CRISIS” or Jimmy Creech’s new book, “Adam’s Gift” as a conversation-starter about this important topic.
• Commit to personally sharing a copy of CRISIS and/or “Adam’s Gift” with your pastor and others in your faith community.
• Use your online social network to encourage fellow North Carolinians to join this effort to prevent North Carolina from being a place where the harm caused by religion-based bigotry is anyway justified or promoted.