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GAY PENTECOSTALS FIND A PLACE TO WORSHIP
* gay affirming pentecostal churches *
Pentestal ngregatns have historilly nmned homosexualy, and most Pentestal nomatns have doctral statements nmng homosexualy, such as the Internatnal Pentestal Hols Church’s statement, “We have mataed a strong posn agast premaral, extramaral, and viant sex, cludg homosexual and lbian relatnships, refg to accept the loose moral standards of our society. I was simply lookg to be actively volved and bee a member of the church… Bee I was gay, that was sufficient for [them] to turn around and say no. Recent rearch strongly suggts that LGBT people who ntue to intify as Christian experience heightened “homonegativy” – negative and shame-filled feelgs about their sexualy – pared to non-relig, or even formerly Christian, LGBT people.
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.