More Prayer, Not Less

The annual observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day reminds us that religion and prayer do make a difference in the public arena. Dr. King without prayer--without his following Jesus, without his invoking the words, and evoking the power, of Hebrew prophets—is not authentically Dr. King.

Many in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender communities see religion as the enemy—understandable due to religiously-based homophobia (and the bulk of that is centered in Christianity). But in truth, as many of us who support LGBT equality know, our faith is often the catalyst for our work in this arena.  

This is why prayer is so important in our work for justice, and why we in People of Faith for Equality in Virginia pray together.

We are praying each Wednesday morning at the General Assembly Building in Richmond. You are invited to join us at 7:30 am in Conference Room 3 East.

And we have a special opportunity next Tuesday, January 24, at 8:45 am to pray together at the Equality Virginia annual Lobby Day.  Find out More.

Come just a little early to check in and join us in the main meeting room at the Library of Virginia for an Interfaith Prayer Gathering—just 15 minutes to gather in prayer, thanking God for blessing our witness that day, whether we be Jewish, or Christian, or Muslim, Unitarian Universalist, or another faith.

We do this because we know God stands on the side of love, as our Unitarian Universalist siblings proclaim, and justice, as our Jewish siblings remind us—and because we want to be very clear that religion is not the preserve only of those who exclude and deny full human dignity to LGBT Virginians.

Please join us if you can in prayer—and if you can’t come to Richmond, how about praying at home, daily, for equality? Wherever, and however, we pray makes a difference, a powerful difference.