Today is a new day in the U.S. Today, LGBTQI and non-LGBTQI people were honored and recognized as equals under the law. Both due process and equality under the law were met today as a Constitutional standard, and we are celebrating that. As someone who is open and honest about who he is as a child/son of God, to be denied rights and privileges 98% of this congregation can enjoy all along, is huge. Big.
Yet within the Church (universal), the body of Christ, the household of God, we who are LGBTQI are already "equals" or fully loved, because we are all created in the image of God, and as the poster says "God doesn't make junk."
The PCUSA offices in Louisville, and the elected leadership sent out this "blurb" today in light of the ruling of the Supreme Court of the US:
“It is always good when the church is at the front end of a movement such as this and catches the spirit in the wind of where people are attempting to move society and give voice to those who have long been silenced,” said the Rev. Dr. J. Herbert Nelson, director of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness. “Our task now is to educate congregations and address how the church is to engage society and our differences. It’s much more than a gay/lesbian issue. We are seeing laws overturned in favor of communities that have not always been represented.”
More here: http://www.pcusa.org/news/2015/6/26/pcusa-celebrates-supreme-court-decision-same-gende/
Pax! Pastor B
