(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet.
Contents:
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
* gay religion church *
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.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
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.