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jumptheshadow

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5. Yet there are exceptions...

Reply to laconicsax (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 07:10 AM

Dec 2011

This is the creed of our local United Methodist church, which is a real light in our community:

"Hand in Hand, we the people of Park Slope United Methodist Church - black and white, straight and gay, old and young, rich and poor - unite as a loving community in covenant with God and the Creation. Summoned by our faith in Jesus Christ, we commit ourselves to the humanization of urban life and to physical and spiritual growth."

They also will allow no marriages at all inside the church until everybody can marry.

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Gay nativity scene vandalized at Claremont church [View all] n2doc Dec 2011 OP

No one could have predicted that. n/t Scuba Dec 2011 #1

Much better article than what was written in the local paper Irishonly Dec 2011 #2

Doesn't any nativity scene carry a social or political message? n/t Fearless Dec 2011 #3

I find it interesting that a Methodist church would have such a display. laconicsax Dec 2011 #4

Yet there are exceptions... jumptheshadow Dec 2011 #5

One of the larger UMC churches here is one of the most accepting of the gay community. beyurslf Dec 2011 #6