haffner’s most recent work has focused on helping faith communities understand the relationship between sexuality and religion and creating sexually healthy faith communities. in 1999, she conceived of the project to develop a multifaith progressive statement on sexuality and religion and coordinated the development of the religious declaration on sexual morality, justice, and healing. written with the input of twenty leading theologians, the religious declaration first appeared in the "new york times" on january 25, 2000 endorsed by more than 800 religious leaders. as of january 2013, more than 6,400 religious leaders from more than 70 denominations have endorsed the religious declaration.