LGBT Rights Uned Kgdom: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
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CHURCH THAT WELE GAY UPL SEE NGREGATNS GROW
A wispread ban of gay nversn therapy uld end up crimalisg church lears, the UK's largt evangelil body has Evangelil Alliance, which reprents 3, 500 church, says such a ban uld rtrict relig eedom. He said the Evangelil Alliance opposed "abive practic" and said extreme forms of nversn therapy, such as electric shock treatment, were "clearly wrong" he said such practis should already be illegal unr existg laws and that a further ban risks preventg gay Christians who want to rema celibate om seekg support. However, the ernment has received support om another group of mpaigners praisg the ernment's "reful, evince-based approach" letter was ordated by the LGB Alliance, which scrib self as promotg the rights of lbians, bisexuals and gay exprsed ncern that "the current ph to ban nversn therapy...
In 1946, Whe wr, a prit at one of Atlanta’s Catholic church nied the sacrament to people who admted they were homosexual. In turn, the rejected parishners created what member Helen Pappas lled “the world’s first gay-oriented church. ” A small group—“old and young; men and women; gay and non-gay, ” acrdg to Pappas—gathered at an altar ma om two cktail tabl.
As the “homophile movement” alced the 1950s, Whe wr, church and other new, or newly welg, relig stutns played an important role. LGBTQ-iendly church operated mostly unr the radar until 1968, when a gay former Pentestal mister named Troy Perry found the Metropolan Communy Church, “a Christian church for all people wh an outreach to the gay muny.