The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri, wh approximately 5 ln members, has passed repeated rolutns to wele gay and lbian people sce 1991.
Contents:
- UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW
UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors. * church lgbt *
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.
Nidorf, an Augtian prit, formed the gay fellowship group Digny southern California. Its meetgs clud group therapy, discsn of theologil texts on homosexualy, and Holy Mass.
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng (LGBTQ)Same Genr Lovg (SGL) Whoever you are Wherever you are on life's journeyYou are wele * church lgbt *
Whe wr that the media soon picked up on the “gay church” movement, wh varyg gre of sympathy. One Time magaze story claimed that gay church, wh their “flnted brand of homosexual Christiany, ” would “stra the patience of most churchgoers.
As one MCC pastor wrote, “we are not a gay church…we worship God like anybody else and the fact that we’re gay has very ltle to do wh . Was possible to root gay rights activism Christian moraly? At one rally, signs read “The Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I’m Gay” and “Oral Can Be Moral.
A rabow gay pri flag fli below the U.
MOSW CY HALL BANS GAY LGBT PARA FOR 14TH YEAR A ROW
S., 60% of Uned Methodist members say homosexualy should be accepted, acrdg to a 2014 survey by the Pew Rearch Center. Meredh is gay and has been married sce 2016. " He says the plan don't acknowledge the historil legacy of homophobia the church, though he poted to the plan's allotment of $39 ln over four years to "support muni historilly margalized by the s of racism" as a step toward such an acknowledgement.
This is an important lson for church and nomatnal bodi to learn as they nsir one of the most challengg qutns of our time: how to addrs the cln of persons who are gay, lbian, transgenr or otherwise nonnformg to tradnal rol. The explanatn ually go like this: “I have gay iends. An example on each si: One iend believ the church should allow gay ans bee a an body should reprent the life of the church, where there are undoubtedly gay members.