The leading Democratic presidential contenders will participate in a forum on gay issues next month, sponsored by a major gay rights advocacy group and televised on a cable channel aimed at gays and lesbians.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have agreed to appear in the live, one-hour forum in Los Angeles on Aug. 9. The program is sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign and will be broadcast on the LOGO cable channel. LOGO will also stream the forum live on its Web site.

Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Biden declined the invitation to appear at the forum, citing scheduling conflicts. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich have not yet said whether they’ll attend.

Former Alaska Gov. Mike Gravel was not invited to participate because he did not meet a $100,000 fundraising threshold, HRC spokesman Brad Luna said.

Luna called the forum “a historic opportunity for us,” noting it was the first time major presidential candidates had agreed to address gay issues before a television audience.
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6) But from the beginning of the creation, God ?made them male and female.?

7) ?For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife,

and the two shall become one flesh?; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

9) Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.?

5) Thomas said to Him, ?Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way??

6) Jesus said to him, ?I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

25) But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

26) Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone?s chains were loosed.

27) And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.

28) But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, ?Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.?

29) Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

30) And he brought them out and said, ?Sirs, what must I do to be saved??

31) So they said, ?Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.?

32) Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.

33) And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized.

34) Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household.

13) And you will be hated by all for My name?s sake. But he who endures to the end shall be saved.