(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet.
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REMEMBERG THE GAY SAN FRANCIS CHURCH THAT WAS TORCHED OUT OF HATE IN 1973
The s-long stggle for equal rights for the gay muny clud an unlikely transformatn wh a lol Catholic church that is now thrivg San Francis's Castro District. * gay church san francisco *
We, of the Metropolan Communy Church of San Francis, are a beloved muny jog together om diverse spirual backgrounds and misterg primarily wh the Lbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgenred Communy as a hoe of prayer of all people and a home for queer spirualy.
The Metropolan Communy Church San Francis was one of four gay church burned arsons between 1973 and 1974, the same year of the adly UpStairs Lounge fire new Orleans, which was also ... * gay church san francisco *
The parish offers a spirual home to all: senr cizens and youth; sgle people and fai; those who are straight, gay, lbian, and transgenr; the healthy and the sick, particularly persons wh HIV/AIDS. The senr pastor and elrs of San Francis's evangelil Cy Church will no longer require members to absta om homosexual practice, so long as the homosexual activy occurs the ntext of marriage. Instead, on the matter of homosexual practice, the Pastor and Elr Board gave preemence to their judgment regardg what nduc more to human flourishg and, oddly, to a scripturally misguid book wrten by former Veyard pastor Ken Wilson lled A Letter to My Congregatn.
” Wilson ntends wrongly that the biblil dictment of homosexual practice is limed to exploative relatnships wh adolcents, slav, and temple prostut, as though the were the only forms of homosexual practice known to persons of the ancient Near East and the Gre-Roman world.