Equal Future 2018

rdf:langString Equal Future 2018

rdf:langString Equal Future 2018

rdf:langString Equal Future 2018

rdf:langString Human Rights Campaign Foundation, GLAAD, Music4Children, All Out, Global Network of Rainbow Catholics, Gaingels, GLSEN, We Are Church, New Ways Ministry

rdf:langString Equal Future 2018 is "an international humanitarian campaign raising awareness of the damage done to children when they feel that being LGBT would be a misfortune or a disappointment, and aiming to shift behavior towards children and young people, across the world, right away". The Campaign was launched at the World Meeting of Families 2018 of the Catholic Church as a faith group into which nearly 20% of the world's population is baptized. Its launch was promptly succeeded by advice from Pope Francis that parents of children who may be gay should dialogue, understand, make space for their son or daughter to express themselves, and say "You are my son, you are my daughter, just you are." Amongst other things, to date, the Campaign has provided a web platform for people to write to their territory's delegate to the Catholic Church's 'Synod on Young People', the Fifteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, and it has commissioned an international poll by YouGov. The poll showed that in eight of the largest countries in the world – Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the USA, Italy, France, Colombia and Spain – substantially more people agreed than disagreed that it could be damaging to a child or young person's mental health and well-being if they felt that being LGBT was a misfortune or disappointment. The poll also showed that 63% of Catholics in those countries, the largest eight Catholic countries representing 50% of the world's Catholic population, agree that the Catholic Church should reconsider its teaching on LGBT to support the health and wellbeing of children and young people.