Faith leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the UK’s Bishop of Liverpool have demanded governments make gay sex legal and ban ‘conversion therapy’.
The demands from over 400 faith leaders from 35 countries come alongside an admission that religious teachings have failed LGBT+ people.
At the moment at least 69 nations still criminalize homosexuality – some with the death penalty. Meanwhile just five countries have banned ‘conversion therapy’ – the dangerous and futile attempts to ‘cure’ LGBT+ people.
The joint statement, launched today, says: ‘We recognize with sadness that certain religious teachings have often, throughout the ages, caused and continue to cause deep pain and offense to those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual,