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We are at a critical turning point in American religious and political life over LGBTQI inclusion. By sharing ideas and experiences with each other, spiritual communities can learn the best ways to move forward. How each spiritual community approaches the question will profoundly impact the American political and social climate of the future. ContributorsLGBTQI and allied activists, scholars and clergywrite from an inside perspective about their communities, addressing the ways in which LGBTQI inclusion is being consciously constructed or denied, how their faiths teachings have been traditionally interpreted, and what textual or authoritative changes have taken place to integrate LGBTQI people into their communities.