A new generation of faith-based activism for equality

[thucythucy]

1. The Metropolitan Community Church

was explicitly founded by LGBT folk, back in the 1960s I think, as a Christian, gay community. I think is started in San Francisco, but now has congregations all across the country.

I had the pleasure of meeting many of its leaders some years back, and they were all truly courageous and admirable people and--and this is very important--genuine Christians, at least in my book, far more so than Bible thumping advocates of hate and intolerance.

For too long Christianity has been co-opted by the haters and the bigots. It's high time progressive Christians--and it's difficult for me to see how a real Christian could NOT be progressive--took back the theology that says blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are the poor, and it is more difficult for the rich to gain salvation than for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle.