The MVP seeks to:

• develop a consensus-based set of progressive moral values regarding sexuality, sexual orientation and gender; and
• intervene in the political discourse to promote a more progressive set of public policies with regard to sexuality, sexual orientation and gender.

We believe that moral values matter in the governing of our polity. And we believe that Americans can articulate, and live up to, a more progressive set of moral values regarding sexuality, sexual orientation and gender equity. Sexuality can be a positive, important force in our lives. Heterosexuality, homosexuality and bisexuality are all morally neutral. But the love that is expressed by those who are straight, gay or bisexual is morally good – and all equally morally good.

All forms of gender are morally neutral. But lack of gender equity is morally bad. When women are required to take on more than their share of caregiving in the family; when transgender people are not assisted in living in the gender of their choice; when intersex infants are subjected to genital surgery; or when young women are denied effective contraception -- our society is not living up to its important moral values.

No one person or group has a monopoly on moral values. It is our critical job as a self-governing society to articulate and carry out our best understanding of moral values. Views from organized religion may properly be the source of such values, but so can views stemming from secular beliefs or spiritual/energy beliefs. No one source has greater or lesser validity than another in developing public policy based on moral values.