Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative hosted “Religious Liberty: The Key to Healing LGBT Divides” on Thursday, October 26. The event was co-sponsored by the LGBT Law Forum and featured a conversation with Reverend Marian Edmonds-Allen, the executive director of Parity, a New York City-based national nonprofit that works at the intersection of faith and LGBTQIA+ concerns.
Edmonds-Allen sat with Dean G. Marcus Cole, founder of the Notre Dame Law School Religious Liberty Initiative, to share details on her faith journey as a member of clergy and the LGBTQIA+ community, and how learning she was a part of the LGBTQIA+ community at the age of 40 impacted her traditional, Christian beliefs. Edmonds-Allen also spoke in great depth about her journey as an activist working with LGBTQIA+ youth experiencing homelessness in Utah, and the unlikely ally she found in a legislative aide.
The event was co-sponsored by Notre Dame Law School's Religious Liberty Initiative and the LGBT Law Forum.