The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing HIV/AIDS pandemic. The Religious Institute staff work with clergy, congregations, and denominational bodies on a one-time, short-term, or long-term basis to address sexuality issues. Staff can help choose or plan curricula, develop safe congregation policies, identify local consultants or referral sources, and respond to difficult situations and circumstances around a sexuality issue. The Religious Institute provides keynote speakers and workshop leaders for congregations as well as regional and national meetings on sexuality, spirituality, and religion; sexuality education for youth, parents, and adults; building sexually healthy faith communities; and other sexuality and religion topics. Religious Institute staff assist the media in
The Family: A Proclamation to the World leaders of other religious traditions. For example, in 2014 the Vatican's "Humanum: An International Interreligious Colloquium on the Complimentarity of Man and Woman" featured several world leaders including Pope Francis and Muslim theologian Dr. Rasoul Rasoulipour quoting from or citing its basic teachings. Although the Proclamation presents no new doctrines or policies, it provides an official statement of the church on gender and sex. The LGBT advocacy group Human Rights Campaign has cited the Proclamation as an indication that although telling families not to reject children due to their sexual orientation and telling members to treat them with love and