The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri is now the largt Prottant church to perm noncelibate gay misters to serve s clergy.
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LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
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 christian 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 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. "Endg the requirement for celibacy for gays "aligns wh our existg re visn: the doors of this church are as wi as the arms of the Savr proclaims, " he adds.
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. Everywhere you look their dg room, you'll see fac, young, old, gay, and straight, cludg one of Mike's favore relics of the Virg Mary.
Their fah is their foundatn as a gay Catholic uple, even when their relign and homosexualy - practice and theology - still don't mix many ways. Jim and Mike vividly rellect the stggle for gay marriage.
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"It is hard [beg gay and Catholic], pecially when I go to other church that don't feel as welg, " said Daly.
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| Screenshot Facebook/Calvary Prbyterian ChurchSpahr, a self-scribed lbian evangelist who has advoted for gay ordatn the PCUSA as far back as 1993, was nvicted by a nomatnal PCUSA missn 2010 for vlatg her ordatn vows by nductg same-sex marriage 2015, PCUSA voted to approve an amendment to s nstutn to officially change their fn of marriage to clu same-sex upl. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTLutherans Offer Warm Wele to Gay Berger for The New York TimJuly 25, 2010Wh a layg on of hands, the Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri on Sunday weled to s fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been barred om the church’s ceremony at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church San Francis was the first of several planned sce the nomatn took a watershed vote at s nventn last year to allow noncelibate gay misters mted relatnships to serve the church.