What role does religion play in the Laramie Project? How does in create conflict? How does it bring people together?

In this story, religion plays an unfortunate role: That of a conduit of prejudice and judgement. This is how it also sadly seems to echo the feelings of the community and, in a sick way, "brought it together". It mentions the condemnation of homosexuality as an immoral practice, and you sense the resistance of an otherwise church-going community to accept homosexuality as a natural incident in the lives of many individuals.

The way religion keeps people apart in the play is paradoxically also through judgement, and the feelings of Jebediah as he questions whether his priest and his father are correctabout their arguments against homosexuality, and it is his questioning what raises the separation of reality versus religion and the statement of not allowing organized religion permeate the contents of our character.