The Coalition of Welcoming Congregations (CWC) Cooperation Circle is based out of the Bay Area and brings together religious leaders, LGBT people of faith and their allies from a wide range of religious traditions in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area to form a progressive, effective and media-savvy voice on matters relating sexuality and religions, homophobia and the enfranchisement of LGBT people within society as a whole. In addition, the CWC provides a powerful tool for like-minded individuals to ally themselves and other LGBT people of faith and to make known their views in the current public debates concerning religion, sexuality and LGBT people. The CWC demonstrates how churches, synagogues, mosques and other communities of faith can work together to strengthen legal protection to LGBT people and their family members; provide a religious rationale for supporting civil marriage for lesbian and gay people and initiate public dialogue on a myriad of issues that conservative religious groups so effectively control and manipulate today.
