Celebrating Religious Freedom
Protecting Iowa’s rich diversity of religious expression; ensuring that the influence of government and religious entities remain separate.
Creating a Welcoming State
Ensuring equality for all people in keeping with Iowa’s long heritage of leadership in civil rights.
Encouraging Committed Community Activism
Empowering each person to make a difference in the political process by providing educational and advocacy resources.
Civil Rights Groups join to stop harmful Public School Assemblies
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, Iowa Safe Schools, One Iowa, ACLU of Iowa and Iowa Pride Network have joined together to warn Iowa schools about an outside group that works to perpetuate harmful messages to Iowa school children.
The LGBT and civil rights groups have co-authored a letter to Iowa schools asking them to be aware of Bradlee Dean, Junkyard Prophets and You Can Run But You Cannot Hide. The out of state group recently held a “rock concert” at a local school. They deceptively got the administration to agree to the assembly by saying the content was about “good choices.” In fact, the presentation was a particular religious belief with highly controversial views about the Constitution, Christianity, sexual orientation and gender identity, and teen sexual activity.
Read the joint letter and please share with your schools and friends!
Interfaith Alliance on Iowa Public Radio's The Exchange
Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy, national president of Interfaith Alliance, and Connie Ryan Terrell, executive director of Interfaith Alliance of Iowa discussed the intermingling of religion and politics on Iowa Public Radio’s The Exchange on Tuesday, November 29 with host Ben Kieffer. Listen here.
A joint project of Interfaith Alliance and Human Rights First, “Faith Shared” creates opportunities across the United States for faith communities to strengthen ties with each other. We will counter the misperception, including in the Arab and Muslim worlds, that the United States is a nation defined by the widely covered images of the marginal few who would burn a Qur’an, rather than by a proud and longstanding tradition of religious freedom, tolerance and pluralism. In communities across the United States, this project will not only serve as a model for tolerance and cooperation and promote local faith leaders as champions of such, but it will also create a concrete opportunity to build and strengthen working ties between faith communities moving forward.
Learn more at Faith Shared.
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