Second Stone #51 - Mar/Apr 1997

Second Stone #51 - Mar/Apr 1997

51

1997

Mar/Apr 1997

THE NATIONAL ECUMENICAL CHRISTIAN NEWSPAPER FOR GAY MEN, LESBIANS. BISEXUALS, AND TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE 2.95
, . . MARCH/APRIL 1997 • . · IS 'SU E#51
Jewish and gay:
Not every synagogue
feels like home
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Work and Sabbath:
Reflections by
Rev. Donna Schaper
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National News
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Our National Resource
Guide: Everybody we
know everywhere
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World News
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AIDS: Once prepared to
die, couple learns to
live again
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Summer Events
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New books and videos
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New rule would requireg ay and lesbianc lergyt o be chaste
Presbyterigaany sr e8IX)lldto approvoafl
'fidelitayn dc hastitya'm endment
MEMBERS OF THE Presbyterian
Church(USA) have voted to make
the church's proposed policy requiring
gay and lesbian pastors to · be
chaste part of church law,
The proposal got the majority it
needed March 18 with approvals
from regional_ bodies in Miami and
Charlotte, N.C. The Book of Order -
the church's constitution - will be
changed to require chastity of single
,ministers . ~ ·· ·
;,It says to the country that Presby'
terians are committed to reaffirming
their biblical center for ·faith and
practice," said ·the Rev. Jack Haberer,
moderator of The Presbyterian
Coalition, a, group favoring the
amendment.
However, Scott Anderson, a comoderator
of Presbyterians for
Lesbian and Gay Concerns, said the
change will force more gay and lesbian
Presbyterians out of the 2.7 million-
member church.
"It's one more club that has been
used to beat up gay and lesbian people
in the Presbyterian church," he
said.
"It is truly a sad and tragic moment
in our church's history," said Rev. ,,rr
Laurene· Lafontaine, co-moderator for
Presbytedans for Lesbian and Gay
Concerns. "The leadership of PLGC,
More Light Churches Network and
'That All May Freely Serve' strongly
denounce the passage of Amendment
B. We are deeply disappointed and
outraged that our denomination has
chosen to make gay, lesbian, bisexual ·
· and lransgender ·Presbyterians second
class members. Amendment-B not only.
~Hects gays and_ lesbians, _it. affects
everyone i11° the local church including
single and divorced persons, who
desire to serve God by the imposing
of a purity code, unheard of since the
Middle Ages."
Tlie Rev. Timothy Hart-Andersen,
pastor of San Francisco's Old First
Presbyterian Church, said the new
rules make it harder for him to be a
p9stor in San Francisco.
-"As a pastor, how can I deal with
the pain from this kind of exclusionary
language and deal with the anger
that it will engender?" he asked.
Hart-Anderson predicted that the
struggle for gay rights in the church
will continue.
"In general, the tide is turning for
the ordination of gays and lesbians,"
.lhis was a rather desperate
and. not-very-well-thought-out
effort to draw a line."
he said . "This was a rather desperate
and not-very-wellathought-out
effort to draw a line."
An official announcement from
church headquarters was not available
at press time but advocacy
groups said the 172 pr(!sbyteries that
had voted by' March 18-·voted 88 in
favor and 60 against.
The Presbyterian General Assembly,
the church's chief legislative body,
in 1993 affirmed past church policies
forb lddihg- the ordination of noncelibate
gays and lesbians. The
church's Book of Order, however, has
not specifically addressed the issue
of gay ordinations .
Last year, after a three-year
churchwide study of sexuality, the
General Assembly sent out a proposed
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1F YOU FOUND this copy of Second Stone at a ~ay
pride event, a P-FLAG meeting, or some other event
or location, there's a Second Stone Outreach Paru,er
in your area. Their brochure is enclosed. They are a
Christian church or organiz.ation with a specific outreach
to gays and lesbians. We enco1irage you to visit
them for their next service or 111eetingI. n the meantime,
you may be asking some questions like the
ones that follow. ·
When I told my church pastor-I
was gay, I was referred to an exgay
program. What's that all
about? ·
Recent sciJl/i:fic research is indibating that sexual orientation
is innate and cannot be changed. Ex-gay pro- ·
grams are effective in redirecting a heterosexual person
who has experimented with homosexual activity
back to heterosexual relationships. For a gay or lesbian
person, however, an ex0gay ministry can only
teach one how to "act as if' heterosexual, ofteu with
painful results. An ex-gay program cannot change
your sexual orientation. Remember that most ex-gay
church counselors are heterosexual and cannot speak
from the experience of being gay. Also, any psychologist
or psychiatrist who offers "treatment" for homo-·
sexuality is not following guidelines established by
the American Psychological Association or the American
Medical Association.
After all the rejection I got from
my church, why should I even care
apout God?
Your church may have rejected you, but God never
has. God's nature is·to draw you closer to Him, not
to reject you. The church is ad1ninistered by pastors,
bishops, lay people, committees; people like you and
me - sometimes connected with God at work among
ns, and sometimes not. Sometimes the people who
run the church, because of fear, selfishness or other
reasons, are not able to follow as God leads. In the
past. the church failed to speak .out against the Holocaust
and slavery. At some point in the future, the
church's present failure to affinn gay and' lesbian people
and its failure to speak out against the homophobia
that leads to discri1nination and violei1ce will be
seen as a terrible wrong. As Episcopal Bishop Barbara
Hanis once said, the church is a follower of society,
not a leader.
Does this mean I shouldn't go to
church?
Absolutely not! (It means the church needs you probably
more than you need the church.) There is a place
for you in a church in your neighborhood. 1bere are
many Christian churches and organiz.ations around the
comitry that have a specific ministry to gay and lesbian
people. Even in the mainstream denominations
gay and lesbian people have prominent, although
sometimes closeted, places in the church as pastors,
youth leade_rs, choir masters, lay leaders, and so on.
Many mainstream churches across the country have
moved into positions of welcoming and affinning gay
and lesbian people.
How do I know that God doesn't
reject me? ·
Even if you've never set foot in a church or thought
much about God, you ,',,ere created by·a loving God
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IHADN'T'DARKENEDTHE
DOOR,' AS THEY SAY, FOR
MANY YEARS. I DIDN'T THINK
GOD WANTED ME IN CHURCH
AND THAT WAS THE REASON
I ALWAYS GAVE FOR NOT
BEING THERE. THEN I MET
SOME FOLKS WHO
WOULDN'T ACCEPT THAT AS
A REASON -AND NOW l'M
'DARKENING THE DOOR'
REGULARLY.
who seeks you out. If there's a banierbetween yourself
and God, it .is not God's responsibility. Blackaby
and King in Experiencing God say there are seven
realities of a relationship with God: I. God is always
at work around you. 2. God pursues a continuing love
relationship with you that is real and personal. 3. God
invites you to become involved with Him in His
work. 4. God speaks by the Ho! y Spirit through the
Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal
Himself, His purposes, and His ways. 5. God's invitation
for you to work with Him al ways leads .you to
a crisis of belief that requires faith and action. 6. You
must make major adjustments in your life to join
God in what He is doing. 7. You come to know God
by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes
His work through you.
If you've never really believed in God, and
want to know more, ask a friend or pastor
to talk to you. He or she may be able to
recommend a reading resource, a video, a
,Bible study group or a church. And don't
be afraid or embarrassed to ask. Such a
friend or pastor will be glad you asked. It
is .how God works among us. If you've
-never read the Bible before, start with
Romans 3:23; 6:23; S:8; 10:9-10; and
10: 13,
· But can I really be gay and Christian?
Sexual orientation - either gay or straight - is a good,
God-given part !'f ymir being. A homosexual orientation
is not a sinful state. The Bible condemns some
heterosexual .activity and some homosexual activity;
when someone gets used or hurt rather than loved.
The Bible supports commitment and fidelity in loving
relationship ·s.
Doesn't the Bible say homosexual
activity is a sin?
Daniel Helminiak in What the Bible Really Says
About Homosexuality says: The sin of Sodom was
[not homosexuality.] Jude condemns sex with angels,
not sex between men. Not a single Bible text clearly
refers to lesbian sex ... Only five texts surely refer to
male-male sex, Leviticus 18:22 and 20: 13, Romans
1:27 and 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy l:!O. All
these texts are concerned with something other !rum
homosexual activity itself... If people would still
seek to know outright if gay or lesbian sex in itself is
good or evil... they will have to look elsewhere for an
answer ... The Bible never ·addresses that question.
More than that, the Bible seems deliberately unconcemed
about it.
I wo~ld like explore further. What
can I do now?
While there are many good books and videos available,
there's something poweiftII in being "where ·two
or more are gathered." You may want to check o~i a
1ninistry in your area with a specific outreach to gays
and lesbians, including Second Stone's Outreach
Partner. . The worship style may not be what you're
used to, but the point is to connect with gay and lesbian
Christians with whom you can have discussions
about where you are. Or you may want to try a variety
of churches in your neighborhood, even those of
other denominations . · (There is no "one tme church.")
There are gay and lesbian pepple in almost every
church and God, who i_s always at work around you.
will com1ect yon to the .people you.need to know - if
you talre tlie first ·step. '
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Wouldn't it just be easier to keep
my sexual life a secret?
Some gay and lesbian people who are happy, whole
and fully iiitegratcil may have to be silent about tl1eir
sexuality beca\}se oftheir job or other circumstances.
(The day will come when that is no longer the case.)
But a gay or lesbian person who cannot integrate their
sexuality witl1 the rest of their being faces a difficult
stmggle indeed. To deny one's sexuality to oneself
while in church or at work or wit!, straight friends,
and then to engage in periodic sexual activity is not a
self-loving, esteem-building experience. An inability
to weave your sexuality into the fabric of your life in
a way-that .makes.-you-feel-good about yourself and
allows you to develop relationships with others is a
cause for concem and should be discussed with
someone skilled in gay and lesbian issues.
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•Prayer •The ,Bible •Words & Deeds
Hearing the still, soft voice . Elijah and us
By Rev . Samuel Kader
Contributing Writer
presence of the Lord, for the Lord is
about to pass by." Then a great and
powerful wind tore the mountains I apart and shattered the rocks before
the Lord, but the Lord was not in the
T IS RECORDED in James 5:17 wind. After th e wind there was an
that "Elijah was as completely earthquake, but the Lord was not in
human as w e are ... " and of late I the earthquake. After the earthhave
been pondering some phenome- quake came a fire, but the Lord was
non that God is doing in our midst not in th e fire . And after the fire
that is similar to the things Elijah came a gentle whisper, a still small
experienced in his day . · voice. - I King 19:9-12
Isra el was the nation of the people Elijah ne eded to hear from God. Eliof
God . But th eir religious leaders jah nee d ed confirmation he was on
wer e not listening to the thing s God the right track, and he needed to
was saying. Elijah was sent on a mis- know what should he do:
sion to chall enge that hardne ss of God can wo rk in a might y wind that
heart. God confirmed Elijah's mission breaks rocks and s tony hearts. God
with dramatic dis plays of power. Yet came to Job in a whirlwind (Job 38:1).
w hen the religious and political God came on the day of Pentecost in a
leader s h eard of Elijah's success, might y rus hing wind. God came to
their outcry was to silence him. take Elijah to hea ve n in a might y
Churches have been birthed at an whirlwind. But Elijah did not need a
·alarming rate among the lesbigay powerful wind. So, God was not in the
community. I think it is miraculous. wind .
Look how many there are these days! God can work in an earthquak e .
Yet th e religious leaders and politi- After pray er and praise in Acts 16:26,
cal lead ers of our ·day respond with God used an earthquake to shake the
videos, (for sale of course), political foundations of the prison. Paul 's
lett ers asking for contributions to rid chains were loosed. Silas' chains
America of it's moral decay and the were loosed. All the prisoners chains
growing "homosexual agenda" and were loos ed. Th e jailer got ·s aved
menace. And now a group called the along with his household members :·,·
Army of God claims responsibility for According to Matthew 27:50-54
the bombing of a gay bar in Atlanta. when Jesus gave up his spirit and
Reminds me of Jez ebel's threats to died, at that moment the curtain o(
Elijah. the temple was torn in two from top to
Elijah went on a retreat. He ended bottom . The earth shook and the
up in a cave and went to complain to rocks split. The tombs broke open and
God. Th e Bible records: There he the .bodies of many holy people who
went into a cave and spent the night. had died were raised to life. They
And the word of the Lord came to came out of the tombs, and after Jesus'
him: "What are you doing here, resurrection they went into the holy
Elijah?" He replied, "I have been city _and appeared to many people.
very zealous for the Lord God When the centurion and those with
Almighty . . The Israelites have him who were guarding Jesus saw the
rejected your covenant, broken down earthquake and all that had hapyour
altars, and put your prophets to pened, they were terrified, and
death with the sword. I am the only exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son of
one left, and now they are trying to God!"
kill me too." The Lord said, "Go out In Matthew 28:2 there was a violent
and stand on the mountain in the earthquake, for an angel of the Lord
PAGE 4 • SECOND STONE • MARCH/APR IL. 1997
came down from heaven and, going to
the t omb, rolle d back the stone and
sat on it. It terrified the guards to see
Jesus' empty tomb . God can us e an
earthquake, but Elijah didn't need an
earthqu ake tha t day. So, God was not
in th e earthquake.
God can \Vork through fire. The New
Testa me nt boldly d eclares our God is
a consumin g fir e. God worked thi s
way on Elijah's behalf in I Kings
18:38 when the fire came down from
Heave n and consumed the burnt offering
set up to prove God was the one
tru e God. But Elijah didn't n eed a
fire. So, God was not in the fire.
God was in the still small voice.
For the last several years, as a pastor
in the gay community, I have been
hearing and reading about reports of
revival fires burning in the pred ominately
homophobi~ segment of the
church. I hav e heard for years now of
th e ongoing "Toronto b less ing ." An
outpouring that has drawn people
from around the world to the Airport
Vineyard church in Toronto Canada
■
m e about a church closed to gays in
Dayton where "It is happening here
to o!"
Elijah did not need . an earthquake.
He n eeded a still small voice. [
noticed something remarkabl e in the
Asso ciat ed Pr ess report of th e
Brownsville revival. The results.
People were leaving lifes ty les of
d est ruction. They were giving up drug
abuse. They were walking away from
promi scuity, and starting to be faithful
at hom e. They were walking
away from false religious systems
and having personal encounter s with
Christ. All while the orchestra
play s, while the music tugs at th e ir
h eart, while the preaching gives
them a countdown to choose heaven or
h e ll.
Maybe I should go. But, maybe I
don ' t need an earthquake to move me
. closer to God. I look arow1d my congre_
gation, and I suddenly notice that
without the trumpeter , without the
orchestra, without the wind and th e
fire and the earthquake, I am seeing
I see healing, and choices to walk away
from damaging habits ... I see faithfulness in
the homes of my gay and lesbian couples. I
see love abounding. I see the love of God
in motion and reaching ou t.
has been d escr ibed as a mighty rushing
wind of revival. The fire is burning.
Now there is Brownsville Assembly
of God in Florida. The Associat e d
Pr ess has reported that charismatic
C::hri s tians have flocked to a Gulf
Coast church four nights a week for 20
months . Th eir goal: to bring about a
spiritual awakening in America
before the third millennium. More
than 1.5 million people have
attended the revivals since it began
on Father's Day 1995.
"People are hungry for a real move
of God," 55-year-old Jay Smith told
AP. He had driven up from Talco,
Texas, and got his lawn chair in line
at 4 a.m. for that day's revival service.
"People are tired of going to
church ... and leaving church the
same as they went'.'
Sounds like an earthquake has hit
the church.
A woman asked me if I had been to
Brownsville. I said "No, but I had
heard about it." She proceeded to tell
■
the same results, as a result of a still
s mall voice. With no one telling them
choose now, heaven or hell, sovereignly,
I notice the lives of my peopl e
changing. The fruit of the Holy
Spirit is developing and their lives
are changed. I see healing, and
choices to walk away from damaging
habit s and lifestyles. I see faithfulness
in the homes of my gay and lesbian
couples. I see love abounding. 1
see the love of God in motion and
reaching out. Why? Just so~e changing
and adjusting resulting from their
walk with the Lord. The still small
voice speaks in their heart, and
because of thankfulness and love for
God, they change destructive patterns
and habits for healthy ones. No
one changes their orientation. But the
character of God keeps growing in our
midst.
We are in the midst of a revival,
and we didn't realize it. It snuck up on
us! It came, not in a fire, not in an
earthquake, not with a trumpet .sound
SEE ELIJAH, Next Page
) Faith 1n Daily Life
Churches that split usually survive
Congregational schism not necessarily a red thing
AS CHURCHES DEBATE whether or
not gays and lesbians belong behind
the pulpit or, in some cases, even in
the pews, denominational and congregational
schism is sometimes seen by
members as the only way they will
ever be able to move the church in
what they understand to be the right
direction.
Sometimes not even the biblical
admonition to love thy neighbor can
prevent congregations from splitting
in two over issues as hot as gay ordination
or even other issues ranging
from pastoral styles to the music
selected for the service.
Breaking up is hard to do.
The good news, according to a study
of church splits, is that eventually
congregations get over the trauma of
being spurned. And the breakaway
churches started by dissatisfied
members tend to do fairly well ,
fueled by an energetic leadership
enjoying the freedom to do things its
way.
"The formation of breakaway congregations
can be ·seen as a promulgation
of the faith, and an improvement
·in the performance of the larger
church," researchers Frederick A.
Starke and Bruno Dyck say in the latest
issue of the Review of Religious
Research. "Thus, it is possible that
the formation of breakaway churches
acts as a backhanded way of church
planting."
Starke and Dyck, business professors
at the University of Manitoba, conduct
case studies of conflict management..
They examined 11 congregations
in the · United States and
Canada that experienced · such serious
conflict that in each case some members
left to form breakaway congregations.
In-depth interviews with members
of both the original and breakaway
churches revealed the main reasons
for the church splits were related to
the issues of worship and music
Elijah,
From Previous Page
and a whirlwind. It came as a still
soft voice daily whispering in our
hearts . No one could see it. But the
results are showing.
[. am glad there are earthquakes
and revival fires in the
church, when the Lord wants to use
them. But I am also thankful that in
the times I need to hear from God,
hiding in a cave in the midst of the
storm, in the midst of the whirlwind, ·
" ... the formation of
breakaway churches
acts as a backhanded
way of church
plan ting. "
styles. Some disaffected church members
wanted a more charismatic style
of worship, while in other cases,
those who left desired more traditional
services.
In an interesting difference of perspective,
people who left to form new
churches were more likely to say
they were motivated by doctrinal
concerns, while the people left
behind were more likely to say the
members who left were motivated by
more political concerns over issues of
chur-ch power.
For the first couple of years after
the breakup, the conflict was hard on
members of the established churches.
· They reported some )10lding back on._
donations and problems in being able
to forget and to move on.
"The real big problem is that the
people who are left behind are very
devastated by the event, and it takes
them years to get over it," Starke
said in an interview.
In contrast, members of the breakaway
churches . are on "a tremendous
high" during the first . years of the
new church. Freed from the perceived
restrictions of their former church,
they reported real evangelical fervor
in building the new church.
. Among splits that had taken place
two or more years ago, however,
there was no statistical difference in
how members of the old and new congregations
rated their churches. The
established church has gotten over ..
the split, and the ne.w congregation
in the midst of an all consuming fire,
God can still be found whispering to
my heart, and causing me to be still
and know that He is God. He still
leads me beside quiet waters. He still
restores my soul. He still prepares a
banqueting table for me in the midst
of my enemies. He is still my Good
Shepherd and I shall not want. He
still leads us, and we know our
Shepherd's voice .
Yes it is so, Elijah was a person
just like us.
had itself become a more established
church.
Overall, Starke said, the effect of
church . splits "is a mixed bag," balancing
the ' hurt of the breakup with
the benefit of the founding of enthusiastic
new churches and increased
activism by members of both churches.
"While there may be better ways to
plant new congregations," Starke and
Dyck slate in the review, "it seems
that an i·ntense conflict creates an
Phil Knutson's legacy
emotional energy that is helpful in
forming a congregation in a way that
well-reasoned church planting strategies
cannot match."
The Apostle Paul might understand.
In his biblical letters he urged church
members not to sow discord, but he
would have a falling out with Barna:
bas.
Barnabas would sail for Cyprus,
where he would become the traditional
founder of the Cypriot Church.
-Associated Press and other reports
Endowment-funded conference
keeps ordination deoote at the table
By Jon Olson
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
ON A SUNNY April Sunday in 1994,
Philip Knutson sat on the back porch
of his fourth-floor apartment in a
brownstone in Chicago. He smoked a
cigarette, sipped coffee and studied
the city skyline.
After a few minutes, he left the
apartment, went downstairs ai1d
walked around to the back. He
entered his garage, closed the door
behind him, started his car ... and
died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
He was 56 years old. He was a gay
Lutheran minister with AIDS. He
was my uncle.
Until three months before his
death, when he resigned, Philip
Knutson had led a double life, afraid
that he would lose his job if his
employer, the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America, found out that he
was gay.
Living openly as a gay minister was
an aspiration that my uncle did not
realize in life, but he left a significant
endowment to sponsor conferences
on issues pertaining to sexuality and
religion, in the hope that others
might not be forced to live as he did.
In March, in Ann Arbor, Mich., about
300 people attended the Second
Annual Knutson Conference, which
addressed the topic of the ordination
of gays and lesbians.
The church long has used the excuse
that this "is not the right time" to
address the gay question, said the
Rev. Barbara Lundblad, who serves a
Lutheran parish in New York City,
during a Eucharist at the conference.
"What will be the propitious
time?" she asked . "Martin Luther
was right."'
And yet the problem of timing is one
experienced firsthand by the Rev.
Herbert Chilstrom, the former presiding
bishop of the ELCA, who personally
supports a broader policy on
gay involvement.
When considering the clergy, Chilstrom
said, church leaders constantly
balance two questions:
"How much uniformity can we
demand? How much diversity can we
tolerate?"
He toid the story of his personal
journey to acceptance of homosexuals,
then said, "I know that the vast
majority of our people (ELCA members)
have not made this journey."
Keynote speaker Elizabeth Bettenhausen,
a New York-based ethicist
and writer, spoke for many at the conference
when she called the church's
distinction between non-practicing
and practicing homosexuals a
"science-fiction bifurcation." ·
"I can say 'I am a tremendous performer
of Chopin's eludes, I just don't
do it,"' she said. "It's just a way for
the group in power to exclude others."
For many, the emotional high point
of the four-day conference was a presentation
by Steve Gunderson, the
former congressman from Wisconsin,
and his partner, Rob Morris, an architect
and home-builder.
The two alternated at the microphone,
together telling their own stories,
the joint story of their relationship,
and the place of religion in
their lives - Gunderson, a lifelong
Lutheran, and Morris, who for years
did not attend church but is becoming
more involved in organized religion.
"This is who we are. We are the
children of God. We are the Lord's
King said, 'I have never engaged in creation .. We are a part of the Chrisany
direct action when the timing tian family," Gunderson said.
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f'-aitn in lJa11y Lite
Remembering the ~uted . in the land of comfort
By David Brigg~
AP Religion Writer
"Remember those in prison as if you
were their fellow p,·isoners, and those
who are mistreated as if yo11 yo11rselves
were suffering."
- Hebrews 13:3.
THE BIBLE PROMISES religious
individuals that there are two things
they will always have to struggle
with in an imperfect world: poverty
and persecution.
If the poor are always with us, however,
church soup kitchens and shelters
are testaments to the conviction
that people of faith also have a
responsibility to alleviate their suffering.
. But it is in the area of r eligious martyrdom
that many people of faith
have been slower to respond; some
ev angelical leaders say. The arrest of
a 76-year-old bishop in China and
the murder of an evangelical leader
in Iran seem like distant events that
have failed to arouse many Christians,
in part because they come out of
traditions where suffering for beliefs
is revered .as an act of faith.
To respond to what they say is a
growing problem, several evangelical
groups put aside a day last fall, Sept.
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for the Persecuted Church.
Prayer was the first respon se called
for in the effort of groups ranging from
the Southern Baptist Convention to
the National Association of Evangelicals
to res pond to Christians imprisoned,
tortured or killed for their
faith.
But organizers also hoped that spiritual
contemplation would lead to
political action, such as pressure on
the U.S. government to admit refugees
facing religious pe rsec ution and to us e
its power to influence other nations to
permit religious freedoms .
The groups also· called for th e
appointment ·of a special adviser to
the presid e nt for religious liberty.
Two main reason s for the growing
persecution of Christians worldwide
have been the convergence of an
increasingly militant strain of Islam
in some countries and the growth of
evangelicalism abroad.
In 1960, more than 70 percent of all
evangelicals lived in North America
and Western Europe. By 1990, more
than 65 percent lived in Third World
countries und er non-democratic
regimes, according to prayer day
organizers.
Current exampl es include:
-In Ethiopia last year, government
troops reportedly raid ed the · area 's
larges t evangelical Christian church ,
arr.-sting man y of the worshipers,
many of whom died in jail.
-Bishop Zeng Jingmu, a 76-year-old
Roman Catholic bishop in China,
seriously ill with pneumonia , was
arrest ed in 1995 and was told rec ently
that Ill' will re main in detention for
three years without trial.
-In Iran, the leader of the Iranian
Assemblies of God church and his s uccessor
as head of the Iranian Prot es tant
Co uncil were both brutally murdered.
Last January, the National Association
of Evangelicals issued a "Statement
of Conscience and Call to
Action" in which it pledged to end
"our own silence in the face of the suf-
Retreat brings those lookingfor faith
without denominations
By Diane Tennant
The Virginian Pilot
NORFOLK, Va. - From hundreds of
miles and numerous states, the promise
of silence and reflection <;lrew 400
people to Virginia Wesleyan Colleg e
to look for God outside denominational
boundaries.
With little but faith or a desire to
find it, they came prepared to sleep
on the gym floor or in lounges, anywhere
that would get them in the
doors.
" We forget that God is everywhere,
and this weekend we are finding ,God
in this gymnasium that has b·e.en
transformed into a place of prayer,"
said Brother Pedro.
Drawn by the two brothers from an
ecumenical community of mon ks
called Tai ze based in France, more
than twice the number of people
expected came to pray, chant and
meditate at the retreat, held during
the first weekend of March.
It should have come as no surprise.
The annual Taize Pilgrimage of Trust
on Earth, held in Europ e, draws hundreds
of thousands of people, mostly
young adults.
"Our expecta: : •. 15 are more than
met," said the Rev. Robert Lundquist,
an Episcopal priest who helped plan
the retreat. "We've been pushing it
on the Internet since September, primarily
to college campus ministries
across the country ."
Twenty colleges wer e represented at
the Taize retreat , which asked for a
$10 donation from each participant.
The meditative experience of the
Taize community speaks deepl y to
young adults , many of whom cannot
find what th ey seek in organized
religion.
The surprise in Norfolk was how
many elders also turned out to chant
and m editate. Organizers intend ed to
seat participants on floor mat s, but
hundreds of chairs were added after
they realized how mariy older people
would b e attending.
"There's a d eep spiritual hunger in
our culture, and we see this with New
Age and flirting with the occult and
some exotic practices - not to conciemn
or belittle any of thos e," Lundquist
said. "Christianity, on the other
hand, has a deep wealth of spiritual
resources. Perhaps we haven 't done
an appropriate job · of letting folks
know about that."
The Taize community was founded
at the brink of World War II by four
monks who hoped to avert bloodshed
by uniting Christians . When that did
not succeed, the community hid r efugees,
including Jews.
After the war, members quietly
t@ye led throug~o _ut Eastern Europe,
PAGE 6 • SECOND STONE MARCH/APRIL, 1997
fcring of all those persecuted for their
religious faith."
In . confronting religiou s persecution,
prayer day organizers acknowl edged
that some evangelicals have conflicting
responses because of biblical passages
such as 2 Timothy 3:12, which
states that "all who want to live a
godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted."
And the blood of martyrs has been
the foundation on which the church
\vas built, some say.
"You ha ve some people who look at
th e Scriptures and say ·persecution is
go ing h> h.ippen, we should rejoice in
th e persecution, " said Dwight Gibson,
North American director of the
World Evangelical Fellowship .
But prayer day orga nizer s say th e
Bible also calls on Christians to seek
justice and show compassion for peo 0
pie who arc mistreated .
"We are to be concerned with other
Christians who are persecuted, and
we should stand with them," Gibson
said.
setting up prayer circles among young
Catholics in Poland and Hungary and
among Protestants in East Germany.
The community is strictly ecumenical.
So was the gathering at Wesleyan.
The two broth ers donned white
robes and, in the glow of a stage full
of votive candles, th e chanting began.
One of the brothers chose Roanoke ·
students Brenda M etzger, originally
from Dayton, Ohio, and Melila
Alexis, originally from Haiti, to read
Scripture.
Both said they are regular churchgoers.
"If I go to Mass, I feel a lot better,
more at ease," Ms. Alexis said.
" It's a one-hour investment," Ms.
Metzger agreed. They describ ed the
Taize experience as "peaceful."
"The experience of silence is not an
experience to empty yourself, but to
open yourself to receive God,"
Brother P edro said. "If you fall
asleep, don't worry. That happened
also to the disciples."
Bobbie Froehlich, who attends
Foundry United Methodist Church in
Virginia Beach, came with a postcard.
It pictured the Taize community
in France, which her daughter, a
divinity student, had visited. The
written message spoke of the joy of
Catholics and Protestants working
and worshiping together.
Faith in Daily Life
Jewish and gay:
Not eveiy synagogue feels like home
By Diane Targovnik
Associated Press Writer
SEATTLE (AP) - Jeff Moses is vice
president of Seattle's Congregation
Tikvah Chadashah, a gay and lesbian
Jewish congregation where all
are welcome.
"It's a bunch of people with
sometimes a wicked sense of humor,"
Moses, 51, said recently over coffee at
a· Starbucks. He is now in the 10th
year of a relationship with another
man.
"Being gay and being Jewish have a
lot of things in common," he said .
Both groups are outsiders in a larger
community, for example.
"Being Jewish in a Christian community
lets us (Jews) see things that
Christians don't see because they are
in the middle of it. We contrib ute to
their understanding of what's going
on," Moses said.
"I think likewise, gay people in the
Jewish community - which is overwhelmingly
heterosexual - see things
from a slightly different perspectiv e.
The mor e information, th e better off
you are."
Tikvah Chadashah's Friday night
services, held twic e a month at Capitol
Hill's Prospect United Church of
Christ, would be recognized by any
Jew raised in the Conservative movement.
Hebrew songs welcome the Fri- ·
day sabbath . Prayers also are offered
in the ancient language, with readings
interspersed in English.
Soon though , differences start to
come to light.
Unlike most Jewish congregations ,
Tikvah Chadashah has no rabbi or
cantor. And there is no formal seating
- the 14 members attendin g one recent
evening organized chairs and couches
into a circle in the parlor of the
church, chosen over area synagogues
because there were no Friday-night
conflicts.
But the biggest difference by far is
demonstrated when Norm Schwab
and his partner Joe Burke put their
arms around each other. That act
would be considered an abomination
by the nation's · 400,000 Orthodox
Jews, though more accepted by the 2
million Conservative U.S. Jews, the
1.4 million in the Jewish Reform
movement and about 40,000 liberal
Reconstructionists.
Schwab, who grew up in a Conservative
household in Denver, moved to
Seattle 22 years ago and works as a
legislative analyst for the Seattle
City Council.
His potato pancakes helped cement
' Tikvah Chadashah's formation in
December 1980( when a group met in a
Capitol Hill apartment to plan a
Hanukkah party - arid to consider the
need for a gay and lesbian congregation
.
"At this point I had been feeling
disconnected from the Jewish community,"
recalled Schwab, who had
acknowledged his homosexuality in
1976.
■ "Being Jewish in a
Christian community
lets us (Jews)
see things that_
Christians don't see
because they are in
the middle of it." ■
"There was a certain es trangement
from the mainstream Jewish community,
and ther e was also the issue of
bein g out of the closet. So we wanted
a plac e away from the Jewish community,"
Schwab said.
Others felt the same way.
"Now peopl e are much more open
about being gay," Schwab said .
Ther e are 52 addresses on the Tikvah
Chadashah mailing list. The
membership is mainly gay and lesbian,
though some hetero sexuals and
one family attend the congregation's
services.
upart of the groundwork in this community
was set -by David SerkinPoole,"
said 47-year-old Jack, who
sometimes acts as the cantor, or musical
leader, during Tikvah Chadashah
services. A public school
teacher concerned about possible
adverse impact, Jack asked that his
last name not be published.
Serkin-Poole "was kind of a pioneer
in this area, getting everyone's initial
shocks over with," he said .
Serkin-Pool e, 43, believes he is the
first Jewish leader in a U.S. synagogue
to publicly acknowledge his
sexual preference and stay on.
The turning point came in 1986 at
the annual meeting for Mercer
Island's Temple B'nai Torah, a
Reform synagogue . At the time,
Serkin-Poole had worked there about
five years as a cantor and sometimes
as a fill-in rabbi.
"I said, 'First I have an apology to a
congregation that has meant so much
to me, where I have not been fully
truthful with you, I have come to tell
you about my loving, committed relationship
to a man,"' he said, recalling
his two-minute explanation.
''There was a standing ovation. I sat
down and they continued to have a
very boring annual meeting."
Some people left the congregation
· after his disclosure. Three years later,
in 1989, Serkin-Poole and his longtime
partner, Michael, started adoption
proceed ings for the first of three
special-needs children.
Schwab hopes Tikvah Chadashah
will fade int o oblivion as homo sexuality
becom es mor e accepted. But he
knows that's a tall order.
"Mainstream synagogues are more
aware of having gay members but I
don't think they're totally comfortable
with the social aspects of the
gay community. I've never felt like
you could be totally 100 percent yourself.
"Whereas in our congregation, when
people walk through the door, they
know peopl e are accepted as they
are."
Serkin-Poole expects the need for
such a group to continue.
"The fact of the matter is, there
will always be th e ne xt generation of
gay kids," he says. "In an ideal \Vorld
every body loves each other and everyone
gets along. And when the Messiah
comes, it will all happ en."
Jack, th e teacher, said he hopes
Tikvah Chadashah is always be
there.
· "It's kind of like being Jewish in
America. I hope there's a day there's
never anti-semitism. But I would also
want a place that there wouid be -a
. place to be wit h people the way I
feel," he said . "I kind of want both."
The Seattle grou ·p is one of dozens
worldwide. The World Congress of
Gay and Lesbian Jewish Organizations
now has more than 65 members.
It was formed in 1980, after gay and
\ )esbian groups were established in
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early 1970s.
But Serkin-Pool e doesn't anticipate
many new gay and lesbian synagogues
popping up.
"A funny thing has happened on the
way to the battle - there has been a
lot of wins," he said. ·
Jewish views on
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THE FOUR MAIN Jewish movements
differ significantly in their perspective
on homosexuality .
The nation's 400,000 Orthodox Jews
consider homosexual behavior an
abomination forbidden by _the Torah,
the Jewish bible.
The Conservative movement, followed
by about 2 million U .S. Jews,
holds that people are entitled to
their own sexuaiity. There are no
openly gay or lesbian conservative
rabbis or cantors .
Reform Judaism, representing about
1.4 million U.S. Jews, has accepted
gay and lesbian rabbis since 1990.
Last year, its Central Conference of
American Rabbis voted to support
same-se x civil marriage s and to
oppose state government efforts to ban
s uch unions. Many reform rabbis perform
commitment ceremonies.
The most liberal group, known as
Reconstructionists, is also one of the
smallest al 40,000. Reconstructionists
don't consider homosexuality an
issue, saying equality - in every
aspect - is part of its main philosophy.
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Faith in Daffy Life • • · · · • ·
Work
and
Sabbath
Time without
Sabbath ... is time
when fear ha s
separate d us
from God.
SABBATH IS THE separa tion of time
into different parts. Sabbath comes
from the word to separate, as in one of
its roots, sabbatical. Sabbath is the
connection between work and play,
not just play and not just work's
opposite. We can rest at work. And
work at rest. Sabbath people know
our time and how we want to use it.
We know that "our" time is really
God's time, and that God gave time to
us . Sabbath people "take their time"
at work and at rest.
Time without Sabbath is time that
is homogenized by anxiety. It is time
when fear has separated us from God.
The simple name of the anxiety is the
American Work Ethic. The majority
of Americans subscribe_to its articles
of faith. The work ethic is the belief
that work produces happiness. It is
the faith that effort is ethical. The
number of people who still believe in
work is high but the connection between
work and happiness is low.
The Protestant work ethic is obsolescent.
Tawney, famous for· his work
"Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism,"
widely understood as one of the
better histories of the Reformation
period, described the original development
of the Work Ethic. He said
that capit<!,lisrn helped Protestantism
arise and Protestantism helped
capitalism arise. Both directions.
Not either direction. Material world
shaping spiritual ·world shaping
material world. A mutuality of
effects. Becoming free of the authoritarian
gods let people have the
energy to do more on their -own. To
take risks. To make things. To_.sell
things. To not. fear offending the
gods.
Capitalism then ushered in a new
age of humanism. The Protestant
religion was born.
OUR ECONOMY IS changing again,
in ways as far-reaching as it changed
in the time of the Reformation. We
are not becoming more se~ure this
time; we are becoming more insecure.
Universitie s have become more
dependent on corporate contributions.
Mention college and the average parent
thinks cost. The art world has
become more than ever a place to buy
and sell. Good plays can't just be good
PAGE 8 • SECOND STONE • MARCH/APRIL, 199 7
plays: they have to "make it" on
Broadway. Welfare is becoming
workfare in more than one state. Getting
sick is more about the fear of how
to pay for the illness than it is about
getting over the illness. PolHics is
increasingly a game in which the
voters hide their pocketbooks from
their leaders. Economic transactions
have taken over more and more of the
places where grace might still preyai
l.
Sabbath yields security by separating
time with its price tags on from
time with its price tags off. Both
kinds of time have moral legitimacy.
But neither has the right to tyrannize
the whole of time. Ask someone
who has nothing to do, ever again,
because they have lost some essential
capacity: they will tell you the tyranny
of grace without works. The old
Yiddish proverb ·is useful: the worst
thing to carry is having nothing to
carry.
Sabbath is not
opposed to work.
Itis a way of
putting work in
its proper place
SABBATH IS NOT just grace. God is
not honored only in leisure ; Sabbath
is not just time beyond the exchange.
Sabbath is the connection between
works and grace. It is the patterned
separation of the one from the other,
on purpose . We separate ·to praise
God in different ways, with both our
work and our play.
Sabbath is not opposed to work. It is
not anti-work. It is a way of putting
work iffits proper place.
We live in an economic and spiritual
overgrown forest, a tangled web, one
in which spiritual failure joined
material greed which then created
more spiritual failure - which then
systematized into a political/
economic/ spiritual knot. What we
have Jost is Sabbath.
WE HAVE LOST time. We have lost
the sacredness of time. And we let it
happen to ourselves. No one gave us
the virus; we self-inoculated. Ten
years ago I never would have thought
of calling my answering machine from
my summer vacation. Now I can't
imagine not calling it. I am not alone.
We are not without hoDe. The virus
is not necessarily fatal.' Restoration
of ourselves and our economy is
something, remarkably, easy to do.
Rather than being an alarmist about
the death of the work ethic, l write
gladly about what may yet be a new
Protes tant play ethic. That new play
ethic will reestablish Sabbath time,
time which is able to wear work boots
and dancing shoes. Both, not either.
' To dethrone the idol of work, it is
important to clarify what we mean
about work and what it actually is.
Many Americans still find a little too
much joy in suffering - especially if it
is other people's suffering. "Good -for
them," we say. But work in its broadest
sense, is anything you have to do;
play anything you may do. When l
use the word "play" as the emerging
ethic of our time, I don't mean frivolity
but I know that I have to battle
that accusation right away because of
its nuance. Many people find playing
very uncomfortable. We would
rather "do something." When I think
of the emerging play ethic, I imagine
a vigorous American economy. I
imagine high levels of prrn;luctivity.
I imagine doing and making things,
some of them beautiful. I also imagine
freedom in activity, not forced
activity. I imagine pauses in the
music. I imagine workers owning
their own work and participating in
decisions around it. I imagine work
having the profundity of "may" not
the boot of "must." Economic security
is in the choices of what we do with
our energies.
AS FRANCIS DU Plessix Gray.put it
in a sermon at St. John's Cathedral, in
November 1989, the task of Sabbath
makers is "how to resuscitate the
exhausted world after reiieving it of
the drudgery of full time employment?"
She might have been equally
concerned about the exhausted person
who withers under the same circumstance
.
On a high school retreat, one of the
leaders went skiing all day with the
high schoolers on the first day, leaving
the other adult leaders back at
the lodge "to do all the cooking and
cleaning." I wonder which of the
adults the teenagers wanted to be
around. The one who knew what Sabbath
time is for or the ones who had
forgotten its meaning?
When time is restored to its sense in
Sabbath, youth will be less afraid of
becoming adults. Siesta will not be a
sin. God will not be mocked in work or
play. God will not be mocked but
rathe r praised by people who own
their own tim e and give it, joyfully,
back to God. They may work in an
economy but not for it
The Rev. Donna E. Schaper is Associate
Conference Minister with the
Massachusetts Conference of tlze
United Church of Christ. Her new
book is "The Sense In Sabbath:. A
Way To Have Enough Time," Innisfree,
forthcoming Sept., 1997.
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BANK OPERATIONS OFFICER, 2394 RAINBOW
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PO BOX 12754 78212,
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MARCH/APRIL 1997 OUTREACH PARTNER REPORT
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PAGE c., • SECOND STONE• MARCH/APRIL, 1997
'Fidelity and chastity'
amendment gets needed votes
From Pagel
constitutional amendment forbidding
the ordination of individuals who
fail to live "either in fidelity within
the covenant of marriage of a man
and a woman, or chastity in singleness."
In practice, what the amendment
does is give church policy banning
gay ordinations the "status of church
law," said spokesman Jerry Van
Marter. "All presbyteries are n hliged
to enforce it, but we don't have a Presbyterian
police force that goes out
looking for violators. Cases don't
come before the presbyteries unless
someone files a complaint."
"I feel grateful that we are here
because it's been a lot of struggle for a
lot of folks for a lot of years," said
Haberer, of Clear Lake Presbyterian
Church in Houston.
Haberer predicts "a couple of years
worth or skirmishes" to test the
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strength of the amendment, but said
its passage should settle the issue.
Leaders of PLGC said that Amendment
B, deemed to be unconstitutional
and theologically problematic by
many scholars and leaders \Vi th in
the denomination, is indeed headed
for judicial challenge.
"This denomination is split on how
to respond to its own gay, lesbian,
bisexual and transgender members,
deacons, elders and clergy," Lafon-
■ "The mere fact that
the recorded popular
vote is nearly SO SO
tells us that this
church is surely
not of one mind."
■
taine said .. "The mere fact that the
recorded popular vote is nearly 50 50
tells us that this Church is surely not
of one mind.- For this very reason, we
are hopeful. We know that this is a
justice movement, not unlike 'the
movement for women's ordination or
the movement to . reverse attitudes
about slavery within the last
hundred and fifty years in our denom.
ination 's history. We trust that
God's call fo each person, ·particularly
gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender persons, will eventually
be honored and celebrated. This
travesty of discrimination will not
thwart the Spirit of God. Those of us
who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or
transgender will continue to serve God
faithfully, and yes, this church .
"We encourage those Presbyteries
who have not yet voted on Amendment
B to be a strong prophetic witness
for justice by voting 'no.' We
affirm the Reformed tradition of the
Presbyterian Church (USA) and
God 's Spirit moving among u; . To that
end, we trust that Amendment B will
be rejected by the courts of the denomination.''
concluded Rev. Lafontaine.
-Associated Press, San Francisco
Chronicle and other reports
PAGE 10 • SECOND STONE • MARCH/APRIL, 1997
Study: Gay clergy disregarding
chastity requirement ·
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Gay
Lutheran clergy have ignored church
laws and remained sexually active,
but they have avoided scandal while
remaining strong in their faith,
according to a study cited in a published
report March 8.
A study of 26 male and nine female
pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America found that all
had been sexually active and 21 1-ived
in long-term relationships, despite a
church rule requiring gay clergy to
remain celibate.
"No church policy has stopped
these persons from falling in love,
from having sex, from being parents,
from ioving the Lutheran Church,
from going to seminary, from hearing
a call to ordained ministry," said
University of Michigan sociologist
Carolyn Riehl, director of the study.
"We found that these 35 people all
were responsible people," Ms. Riehl
told the Detroit Free Press . "None of
them have been involved in sexual
scandals or have been accused of misconduct."
The study was released at a
national conference on religion and
gay rights. The four-day conference
was attended by 300 clergy and laypersons
from 10 denominations and 20
states.
Most of the 35 Lutheran clergy had
revealed their sexua l orientation to
some members of their congregations,'
an indication that laypersons also
are willing to overlook church policy,
she said .
"Particularly, this can work in
smaller churches where we all know
each other and care about each
other," said the Rev. John Rollefson,
the Lutheran campus mini s ter who
organized the University of Michigan
conference.
Former Republican U.S. Rep. Steve
Gunderson of Wisconsin told the conference
that a Lutheran congregation
near his home in McLean, Va., has
accepted him and his partner, Rob
Morris, as openly gay members.
"This is who we are . We are the
children of God. We are the Lord's
creation. We are a part of the Christian
family," Gunderson said.
Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
of the Catholic Archdiocese of
Detroit urged gays at the conference
to be open about their sexual orientation
to help change church teachings.
"The experience gay and lesbian
people have of loving and of being
loved is an experience ... that can be a
true revelation about the love of
God," said Gumbleton.
Women clergy wait nearly twice
as long to get a call
WOMEN WITH A higher calling
wait about twice as long as _ their
male counterparts to get their first
jobs as pastors in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America, a new
study found. ·
Seminary-trained women wait more
than six months on average for placement,
compared to 3 1/2 months for
men, the study found.
Older seminary graduates making
the clergy a second career also waited
longer for an invitation from a church
with a vacancy, the study found. But
women, who comprise 13 percent of
the clergy, were affected more than
men.
The average age of women at ordination
was 35, compared to 29 for men .
"It is really a double whammy,"
said the Rev. Janice Erickson-Pearson
of Chicago. She co-,authored the study,
which was presented March 7 to
· more than 60 bishops a six-day meet ing
in Los Angeles.
The Chicago-based Lutheran
denomination is the nation's largest
with 5.2 million members. Its Commission
for Women sponsored the survey
of nearly 1,700 women clergy
members.
Women clergy were more likely
than male- ministers to . have experienced
"gender-based discrimination
or harassment" in work settings, the
report said, but co-authors EricksonPearson
and Martin Smith said that
issue would be detailed in a future
study .
Some Lutheran churches began
ordaining women in 1970, but some
congregations still resist placing a
woman in the pulpit .
''There are still congregations that
have never heard a woman preach,
even as a guest minister, or seen them
do the things that pastors do," said
the Rev. Ann Tiemeyer of New York
City, who chairs the Commission for
Women.
Tiemeyer was pastor at Christ the
· King Lutheran Church, a small Van
Nuys congregation, for 2 1/2 years
beginning in 1993. She left for New
York after marrying.
"Most of the people who were initially
hesitant about a woman pastm
wound up being my strongest supporters,"
she said.
National News
Bishop urg~ gay Catholic priests and bishops to come out
DETROIT (AP) - A Roman Catholic
bishop is encouraging gay priests and
bishops to come out in an effort to
help the church change.
"If they were willing to stand up on
Sunday morning in front of their community
as who they are, our church
could more fully and quickly appreciate
the gifts that homosexuals can
bring to the whole community of our
church and to our society," Bishop
Thomas Gumbleton said recently.
The Detroit auxiliary bishop has
made several comments about making
the church more welcoming to gay
men and lesbians. -But the call for gay
priests to come out is unusual.
The transcript of his statement
reads in part:
"(T)he most important thing prob-
Catholic group seeks a ~ter role
for gays, lesbians
By Bruce Stanley
Associate<:! Press Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Auxiliary
Bishop Thomas Gumbleton doubled
his efforts to teach tolerance after
learning of his own brother's homosexuality.
Sister Jeannine Gramick
changed her life's course after learning
of the anguish Roman Catholic
college students felt at being gay. · ·
· Gumbleton and Gramick were among
620 activists and church leaders who
met in Pittsburgh in March to discuss
how the Catholic Church can help
reach out to gays and lesbians.
"Homosexual people have experienced
such terrible alienation from
the church," said Gumbleton, an aux·iliary
bishop in Detroit. "They've
felt unwanted and condemned very
often. The church has not been very
successful in ministering to them."
''Too often the church has been a follower
and not a leader," said Gra-.
mick, a nun who directs the LesbianGay
Ministry for her order, the
School Sisters of Notre Dame.
"I think we have a responsibility
now, at the end of the 20th century, to
educate people about acceptance of
minorities and of people who are different
from the. mainstream," she
said.
But many in the church oppose the
New Ways Ministry and its attempts
to open up to homosexuals.
In November, Bishop James Hoffman
overruled a priest's decision to
play host to the group's meeting in
Toledo, Ohio. The ministry found an
alternative venue - an Episcopal
church.
Gumbleton and another bishop
attended the meeting, the first time
such high-ranking church officials
have shown up.
Tolerance of homosexuals in the
church has gradually improved in
the past two decades, members said.
The Rev. Rodney DeMartini, head
of the National Catholic AIDS Network,
attributed much of the growing
acceptance of gays and lesbians to the
impact of AIDS. As a priest in Santa
Rosa, California, DeMartini has
helped build an ou !reach program for
victims of the disease in five Western
states.
He said he encountered little resistance
from · his superiors when he
broached the idea, and he disputed
the suggestion that the Vatican and
seniqr church leaders are out of touch
with the needs of AIDS sufferers.
"There's a long history in the
church of response to human catastrophe,"
DeMartini said.
ably bishops, ministers, all of our
leaders in the church, the most
important thing we can do in our pastoral
care, leadership and service is
to try to create a church community
where gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgendered people can be truly
open about who they are ...
"I encourage this because I hope
that within our church every gay
person, every lesbian person, every
bisexual person, or. transgendered person
will come out, because that is how
our church is going to truly change ... I
would say this especially to priests
and bishops in our dmrch."
Gumbleton also said he has received
many letters from priests who are gay
but afraid to say so publicly.
"What a loss that is to our church,"
he said.
Ned McGrath, communications
director for the Archdiocese of
Detroit, told the newspaper that
Gumbleton's remarks reflect his own
opinions and aren't the official views
of Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida.
McGrath said he isn't certain what,
if_ anything , would happen if a priest
publicly said he was gay.
"It's really a moot point for a priest,
who by virtue of his ordination takes
a vow of celibacy," he said.
In 1994, Gumbleton, the assistant
bishop in the Archdiocese of Detroit,
became the first high-ranking
Catholic clergyman to speak out
against the Vatican's teaching on
homosexuality .
Diocese holds first-ever Mass for
gays and lesbians
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Emotions
ranged from joy to anger as the
400,000-member Rochester Roman
Catholic Diocese held its first-ever
Mass for gays and lesbians.
Police stood guard, protesters
chanted prayers outside, and people
filled the 1,100-seat Sacred Heart
Cathedral Feb. 28 as Bishop Matthew
H. Clark joined a handful of
bishops nationwide that have held a
Mass for gays and lesbians.
"I have never felt more intense
about climbing into this pulpit,"
Clark, vested in the deep purple colors
of Lent, said in his sermon. "It is
not out of fear ... This is absolutely
right to do.' '.
Clark avoided any discussion of the
official teachings of the Catholic
Church. Instead, he talked about
Jesus' parable of the prodigal son,
who left his father, Was beaten down
by the world, then asked to come
home . The father, instead of being
angry, asked his servants to prepare
a great feast for his son. Clark told
the audience he wanted gays and lesbians
to feel the church's embrace and
its welcome.
At the end of the 90-minute Mass,
Clark received a standing ovation.
He later stood at the doorway of the
cathedral and hugged each one of the
hundreds who attended the Mass.
Outside the church, Clark was
greeted by reporters, · photographer s
and about 75 protesters holding placards
.
Ida Dentino of Holley told the
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
she and others "are here to defend
the teachings of the church."
Vern Myers, a gay man from Irondequoit,
said he was just trying to raise
his two children as good Catholics.
"My daughter doesn·t say much. My
son, he doesn't understand why so
many people have so much hatred,"
Myers said.
Church accepts bill to ban discrimination agaiμst gays
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The Roman
Catholic Diocese of Manchester has
given its blessi~g to a bill that would
ban discrimination against .gays and
lesbians after lawmakers agreed to
modify the bill.
Diocese officials insisted the bill be
amended to _protect the policy positions
of the church, as well as the
inclusion of a section stating adoptions
by'gays and lesbians and samesex
marriages still would not be permitted.
Supporters say New Hampshire
lags behind other New England
states in passing laws to protect gays
from discrimination. Opponents
argued the bill would create a special
status for homosexual behavior.
Maine and New Hampshire are the
only New England states without
laws barring discrimination because
of sexual orientation.
Rep. William McCann, D-Dover,
the bill's sponsor, said that while
the primary purpose of the bill is to
prohibit discrimination against
homosexuals, all people benefit from
its measures.
Cosponsor Rep. Josepl~ Frechette, RPortsmouth,
said his sister, who is
lesbian, suffered tremendously as she
grew up. He said he doesn't want his
eight -year-old daughter to possibly
face what his sister did.
Law professor Marcus Hurn, of the
New Hampshire Alliance for Gays
and Lesbians; said the bill is much
more cautious than the laws of other
states :
Fo_rum said gays don't "warrant the
status they seek." Campbell said
gays don't meet the criteria of suffering
from a history of discrimination.
'!3ut former House Minority Leader
Rick Trombly said supporters of the
bill are not seeking additional rights.
"It's not _ going to open the
floodgates. It's going to give us a· tool
to help our citizens," Trombly said.
A similar bill passed the House
"It is not a sweeping assault on the three years ago, but was killed by the
rights of free association," he said. Senate. Then-Gov. Steve Merrill had
"Nonprofits, charitable and religious argued the protections were not
organizations are exempt." needed because current law protects
Eleanor Campbell of the Eagle gays and lesbians.
PAGE 11~ • SECOND STONE• MARCH/APRIL, 1997
.
' •
National News
Vandals continue1camμlign against Rorida chUICh
By Chris Tisch
The Bradenton Herald
BRADENTON, FLA. - Volunteers at
the 125-member Trinity Metropolitan ·
Com munity Church found the
church's sign defaced on Feb. 21 with
a vulgar anti-gay slogan.
It is the second major act of vandalism
at the church in six months. In
September, the church's office was
vandalized, burglarized and set on
fire.
In that incident, the office suffered
about $700 in damage, though a fire
set in a filing cabinet drawer didn't
spread.
"We are shocked and saddened by
this obvious hate crime taking place
at a church," said the Rev. Gus Kein,
the church's pastor. "This is another
inddent in a long series of haterelated
vandalism that has occurred
against the church."
Church members told the Herald in
September that vandalism and harassment
are common occurrences at the
church. Windows have been
smashed, benches have been ove.rturned
and flowers have been uprooted.
The church at one time had a sign in
its front lawn that announced when
church services were scheduled. But
members said they removed the sign
because they tired of coming to church
on Sunday and seeing the movable
letters rearranged to spell "fag" or
"queer."
Two church members also said they
were assaulted last year as they left
the church . Their assaulters yelled
anti-gay obscenities and sexual slurs
at the two church members.
Another time, kids on a golf cart
rode around in front of the church on a
Sunday morning and harassed members
coming to church.
"Are you a queer?" they asked
church members as they walked
toward their place of worship.
The slogan found on Feb. 21 was on
the church's second such sign - the
first was defaced and eventually
destroyed by vandals.
Report: Cyberspace a new orbit for bigots
NEW YORK (AP) - Anti-Semites
who might once have spray-painted
synagogues under cover of darkness
increasingly are using the global
reach and anonymity of the Internet
to spread their hateful messages,
according to a Jewish organization.
In its annual report, the AntiDefamation
League said that pushbutton
prejudice is "having a field
day" in a cowardly new world where
the Internet offers a potential audience
of 35 million, an\i unwanted mass
e-mailings can flow simultaneously
into thousands of homes.
"Electronic hate is the dark side of
technology, and anti-Semites have
particularly taken to the medium,"
ADL National Director Abraham
Foxman said in the report.
"A disturbing stream of hate-filled
vitriol directed against religious,
ethnic, racial and cultural minorities
flows unimpeded" on the Internet and
in e-mail mass mailings, the report
added.
UFMCC joins regional
ecumenical group
IN A MOVE TOW ARD the mainstream,
the Universal Fellowship of
Metropolitan Community Churches
has been admitted to the Southern
California Ecumenical Council, but a
prominent Eastern Orthodox priest
said the action "raises troubling questions"
for the Eastern churches.
The council admitted the UFMCC,
which oversees 330 congregations
worldwide from its new headquarters
in West Hollywood. · ·
About 15 ·years ago, when the
UFMCC applied for membership in
the National Council of Churches
and the Southern California Ecumenical
Council, it was -rebuffed.
But at the Ecumenical Council's
meeting Feb. 13 in Pasadena, board
member,, upg(aded-the -status of the
UFMCC from observer to member
after a IO-minute discussion with no
dissent, said the Rev. Al Cohen, the
council's executive director.
However, the decision "is going to
be difficult to accept" for the Southern
California Council of Orthodox
Churches, which is also a member of
the Ecumenical Council, said Father
Michael Laffoon of St. Mark Antiochian
Orthodox Church in Irvine.
Laffoon, who was ·not at the Ecumenical
Council meeting, raised the possibility
that the Orthodox church
council, of which he is president, may
withdraw from the council.
''The MCC met our basic criterion of
belief in Jesus Christ as savior," sai\i
council President Sally Welch, a
Chrisiian Church (Disciples of
Christ) minister . . "I would always
rather err on the side of inclusion
rather than exclusion."
The Southern California council's
decision followed an identical step
Jan. 1 by the Sacramento-based Cah0
fornia Council of Churches.
The UFMCC was admitted unanimously
as the 19th member of the
California Council.
For the UFMCC, admittance to the
two councils is -significant for practical
and psychological reasons, said
the Rev. Nancy Wilson, senior pastor
of Los Angeles MCC.
"It's important because we have
common interests in justice and welfare
issues, and for our own sense of
having friends and allies - not being
isolated as a community," said Wilson,
who has led the denomination's
ecumenical relations for 20 years.
-The Los Angeles Times
PAGE 12 • SECOND STONE • MARCH/APRIL, 1997
Foxman conceded that the AOL has
no way to measure the extent of
racism in the unregulated computer
networks, the Internet and World
Wide Web.
"It is almost impossible to quanti.
fy," he said in a telephone interview.
"What we are trying to do now is
alert people that the problem
exists."
AOL uses its own website to counter
anti-Semitism and is planning to confer
with service providers on other
possible moves, he said.
"Anti-Semites have been particularly
active . ... What was local is
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William Pierce, "Identity
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Greg Raven, of the anti-Holocaust
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Men'sS ocialN etwork4, 217N . LimberlosCl ir.,8 5705. 690-956. 5
Sociaal ctMtiesfo r rjly meno f al!a ges.
EUREKAS PRINGS(5 Clli°
MCCo f lhe LMngS pringsP, O Box3 65,7 26322. 53-933. 7Rev.
~1WJ~i~LE (501)
EcumenicCala !hotiCc hurch4, 44-9692P.a uSl mithc, ontacpl ersoo.
MCCo f the OzarksP, O Ba<9 2, 72702-@2. 443-4278.
Res!OfatioFne lk:mshipn JesusC hristP, .O.B ox3 820,7 27rJ: 24.44-
9692R ev.E k:1Jeor sephP auSl mithJ. )aul111@aol.c. om
LITTLER OCK(5 01)
Bcxfyo f Chr1sPl,O B ox1 364, 722033. 74-11!13
H~ CroosE cumenicCala tholicC hurch6, 63-6859F. r. Christ~her
Ehemann
Hq,eA posldicC hurchP, .O.B ox4 563,7 22145. 68-779. 6TDD5 68-
7913b. rcjvlrgilio@03lphi.coBmro.. J . Virgiliop, astOf.
MCCo f lheR oel<P, OB ox1 9647, 2203-196745. 3-70752.0 17Chan·
dler, NO. Lillie Rock.
SpiritS OQM!l CCP, O Box5 86.7 2f03.2 23-2828S.u rday2, J).ma.l
1818R eseoorR d.
UnitariaUn niversaliCslh urc,h 1816R eservoRir ockR d.7 Z2fJ72.2 5-
15CXl
Calrfornia
~APPtL%EV AL~LEY (6 19) DeserCt hurchP, O Box2 47,9 23072. 47-257. 2Sunday,
ARROYOG RANDE(8 06)
~em~rr~~ CatholicC hurchA JXlSlolat2e5, 8A spenS I., Hlt ,
BLYTHE(6 19)
GcxlsG ardenG rowlhG enier2, 83N .S olaro9. :M947. Bro.M icha~
W.T ooke!i,: ,,sllr.
CONCOR(D5 10)
FreeC atholicA postotatoef the Redeem,e 1r 440D etroiAt ve.,# 3.
94fe0. 798-5281.
EASTBAYAREA(510)
Dtal;oV aleyM CC2, 253C oncordB M!.,C oncx:,d9,4 5208. 27·2960.
SIJ1deyH,a .m.,? p.m.
flrst BaptistC hurch2, 345C hanninWg ay,B erkeley9, 47048. 48·
58:¥E1s.th eHr argisp, astorM. eetsin sm~llc hapeol t FirstC ongregation~
C! hurchA. Welcominagn dA lfirmrnAg mericaBn aptisCt onrr?
g::Ahr:dn,toiclat eo f theR edeeme3r,8 49M a~lle Ave.,# 8,
946195. 30-7C65.
Gay, Lesbia_' ann, d Affirming Disciples,U niv. ChristianC hurch
Be~eleyT. hirdS un,. 4P.m. ·
Lakes/lorAev enueB aptisCt hurch3, 534l akeshofeA ve.,O aklan,d
94~1~.8 93-24:84J.a m~sH . Hopkinsp, astor.A Welcoming and
Affirmm gA mericanB aptisct org-egatio. n
NewL ileM CC,1 8239 1hS I., Berkeley9, 47108 43-9355S. unday,
12~.m.
"Pre°st",,,t erianfosr Lesbian& GayC oncerns3.9 00H arrisoSn I..O ak946116.
53-2134.
IRVINE(714)
IrvineU nitedC hurcho f Christ,4 915A ltonP ~ .. 927147. 33-022.0
An Open~ Affirmir,gC ongegationp,r oudlyp rogressivein, ten!iona!
ly lnclusive.
LANCASTE(8R0 5)
Su,riseM CCo f lh9H iD esertP, OB ox8 00,9 3584-080904. 2-7076.
L-ONBGE ACH(3 10)
Dt,,ily, PO8 0< 92'3759,0 00-92375.9 84-8400.
6i;tn~r~t~~;~t~o9:L~~!d ~h ~~:· An
MCC, 3840 Cherry Ave., 90807. 426-0222. Fax. 426-8321
mccb®aol.comR.e v. SandraT urnbulpl astor.
LOSA NGELESA REA( 213)
AffirmatiorJloAsn gelesU: nitedM ethodistfso rG ay,L esbiaann dB i
g~~;:~~ r~~u:r:ci~~C:v?i=a~:::~.
na.9 1001(.8 18)794-7011. . =~~ts UMC,1 296N o. FairfaxA ve.,W estH ol~JWcxxi,
Di!)">nPy,O S CI4<2 04,0 90042-004304 4-006. 4
Diglily/SanG abrieVl alley,5 02M esaC ir.,M onrovia9,1 016-1638
(818)62),51.6 7
Divine RedeemeMr CC, 346 RiverdaleD r., Glendale,9 1a'.14.
(818)5CX}712S4.u nda,y 10:45am .,W ed, Fri., 7:~.m. Rev.S tan
Harris
Ecumenic.caal thohcC htrchi n Hu~ting!oPna rk,5 89-0003F.r .O tilio
GalloS. pamsh,speakcinogn gregati.o n
Evangeli~!sC oncerneWd estH c.!t-ywoo(8d1, 8)58(}788W4. eekly
Bibles h.KiesE. CL aCrescenhtao ldsw eeklyw omen'Bs ibles tudie.s
EC Pasa~nah oldsw eeklyB ille studiesin ad:litionto a women's
mon!hlyd iscusslOg!rl oupm OntarioE. CN ewporat lsoh asw eekly
meetings.
Evangeiclals Tcgelher, 7985S antaM onicaB lvd.,# 100,B ox 16,
90046. 656-8570E. TN ews
FreeS ~ntM CCP, OI la( 466al, 900464. 60-2911.
HolyT rinityC ommunitCyh urc,h PO Box4 29649, 00423. 84-5422.
3323 W. Bever~ BM!.
lnlegrily,7 985S anlaM ooicaB lvd.. #109-113W, eslH ol~rxx\
900466 62-63'..1 1 .
LambdCa hrislianF elk>vshpP,O Bo<1 967, HaW!ho<9ro0,2 51.
LatinC hurcho f Chris1aFne llowship3,3 23W . BeveroB/ lvd.9, CXXJ4.
433-2047.
LesA ngeleGs ay& LesbianA eligousC oalitio,n 7985S antaM onica
BM!, #100l,l o(.104!. m46. .
LutheranCs oncerned1,1 225M ag-io!iaB t1d,B ox2 90,N o.H ollywooc9\
10016. 65-t.CN: A
MCCi n theV alley,5 730C ahuengBa lvd, No.H oi~ood, 91001.
(818)762-1133.
MCCo f theV ineyard,1, 1012V enturaB tvd,# 1254S, lucioC ity,C A
91604;J546.
~of Silvertak3e6, 21B runswicAkv e.,9 00l9-17'2070. 5-8818.
New HopeC hristian-ChurchP,O Box 316, Van Nuys,9 1408.
(818)765-159S0u.n dayfl.) .m.a 19!tllHaskellAve.
PrestPjteriafnosr Lesbian& GayC oncerns3,3 73D escansOo r.,# 1.
90'.0i~-8()J9,
St Jdir/s Episcq:oCl hurch5, 14W . A<ilmsB M( 9WJ7.7 47-62115.
St Matt~s LutheraCn hu,rch1,1 cmc .amarilSb t, No: Hot,wocxi
91002(.8 18)762•290A9S. Li llerprelatiJfnit s!a rd osl Sun.
Unitedl esbian/GayC hristianS cientistsP, O Box.2 1Z t. Beverly
His, 90212·217(13.. 10)850-8258.
~~;m;st>iJ;sfhurch, 5149W .J effets00B M!. 900169 36-4948.
I/CC, PO Box: nlZ 95353-3:m5 78-369. 4
NAPA (707)
MCCin lhe VineyardS31, V illag,P kv..y. 945582. 5&&117.
ORAAGCEO UNTY(7 14)
. ChlistC hapeMl CC,7 20N . Spurg,mS t, SanlaA ro, 92701-3722
835-0722
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Resource Guide
Ecumen\c.CalatholiCc hurch9, 79-1640Y.a diraT ay1ocr,o ntacpt ersoo."
Evar193licaClso ncerneLda ~na, 451-3m. WeeklyB ibles tudies
andworsh~A. lson ewg ot.ps1 1F ulertona rd SanD iego.
PALMS PRINGS(6 19)
Chrr.C;I hapeol l 11"D ese~9 38V elaR d, 92264.3 27-2795.
~~,,~~~~eErt,PPabrns~~-~a1~!i2ii3/~~~3Z?-
9596.
REDONDBCE ACH(3 10)
Centerf or PassionatSe pirituality.'2, 007H ar~ima_:lnn. ,_H 1,9 0278-
4547. 374-7718R. ichR ossiterd, irec10Sf. pirituadl irectlO!rle, treats
ard tormaticenv entsfo rg 'llb't persons.
REDWOOCDI TY( 415)
CalvaryM CCP, OB ox7 0,9 4064-0:073 68-01682.1 24B rewsleSr t
RIVERSID(E90 9)
Communitoyf Christt he LifeG ive,r PO BOK5 11589, 251.7 781-
7391.
RUSSIANR IVER(7 07)
lv1CCB, ox 1055,G uernevill,e 95446.8 87-7622. 869-05521. 4520
ArmslrorgW oodsR d
SACRAMENT(9O1 6)
Dgiily, POB ox1 617659,5 816
lntegity/Northern California, 2620 Capitol, 95816. 394-1715.
barb®gvn.reWt ebs tte:h np:/NAW/.g.,n.nel/--barbbarb.htm
KpinoiaC hristianF eltowsh.~ PO. Box 1894449, 58184. 52.5735
Tom Rossl pastor.
TOOLa tesIts sueP, O8 0( 10058,4 958167. 37•1008.
RMlrCilyMCC, POB ox2 451259,5 8244. 54-4762.7 413 4~S I.
SAUNAS(4 00)
lntegity,c /o Churcho f theG oodS hephred, 301C orradl e Tierra,
939082. 94-:ml
SANA NDREA(S2 00)
lnlegit;, PiTP7i ooeeAr w Apl4 , Turloc~9 5380-26.2 4678-3515.
SANA NSELM(O4 15)
Spectnm1, 00JSirFran:isD rakeB M!,# 12.9 49004. 57-111. 5
SANB ERNARDINOIRIVERSlDE/PO(M90O9)N A
Affirmatio{nM elhcxfrsts1),3 25N . ClaremonBt ox3 02, Claremont,
917116. 24-2159.
ClaremonUt nitedM eihcdsCt hurch,211W . FootbaBll lvd, Claremoot9
17116. 24-9CeA1 .A ecoociinCgo ogeg,liooq, ,enl o all
GreenC arnatioCn Offeehous1e5,8 0N o. D SI., Ste.7 , 9240.5 381-
5al5.M ln.-Sat7, p.m.·12a.m.
SL AelredsP arishS, arumE piscq)aCl hurch(O ldC atholic)1, 580
No. D St., Ste. 5, San Bernardino, 92405. 384·1940.
PBreton714@aol.coRmev.. Or. J. E. PaulB retonp, asto.r Wed,
7p.m.S; un.1, 1a.m.
SAND IEGOA REA(6 19)
Affirmatio(nM oonooi)P, O Box8 64699, 21_, 400-6602.
AnchoMr inistries3,4 41U niversitAyv e.,9 21042. 84-8654C. haris-
~~~=1~~92163. Diglit;Cenler4, 561P ark8 "'1295-
2584. .
lrrtegilyP, O Box3 4253,9 2163-000213. 4-1829.
MCCin theCoonll}0', 001M anzaniDlar .,# C,9 21052. 82-8468S. un-
~~~~~~¥~12BO-«m 433'J3C!hS t
PacificB eachU nitedM ethodsC! hurch1, 561T homas9, 21002. 74-
6573.S u1t1, 0:1S.ma .
SANF RANCISCOB AYA REA(4 15)
BethanUy nitedM ethcxisCt hurch1,2 68S anc~z.9 41146. 47-8393.
Sult, 11a.mR. ev.K arenO iveb,p astorb. ethanyunc@aol.cooi
8ti,1
i:e~~!;~1~!;;cr:t:~:~ii~TI'~rr;. 94110.
826-:!641F.A X,2 82·282!D. ougD onleyp, aslOIq. >e12(J3@a,;.com
EvangelicalCs oncerned6,2 1-3296o r ecslba@aol.oo. mWeekty
meetilgs.
GdcimG ate~ . 19;.'.C)8ll lrchS I.,9 4131-2018.
FreedomIn ChristE vang3licCalh urchP, .O. Box1 4462S, anF ran,
CA9 41140. 05-6509S. un.• 1:3q:l.ma.t 50Bek:herStb.,e lw"een14lh
SlandDibcx:e.
LutheranCso ncerned56, 6 VallejoS t.,# 25,9 4133-403935. 6-2069.
Acton! ·
MCC,1 50E urekaS t., 94114-24928.6 3-4434S. unday9, , 11a.m.,
7p.m
Oasis/CaH!ornia, 110 Julian Ave., 94103. 522-0222.
oasiscalil@ao!.coGma. y and lesbianm inis1ryo f the Episcopal
Dkx:eseofCalilornia. ·
AainbcmFe llcmsho~f FirstC ongregationCahl urch4, 32M asonS t.,
941023. 92-7461M. onthlyp otluckas ndp lanningm eetingsW. orsh"p
leaders.
St Jctm! he EvangeliEstl )scqiaCl hurch1, 00115thS t, 9410.0 861·
1436.R ev.D avidL Norgardp,a ste. r
Tri1it;E pacq,aCl hurcti1, 668B ushS I., 941097. 75-111. 7
UnitariaUn niveraalGista yfles/Bi1, 187F ranklin9,4 1097. 31-3915
UCCUGC2,0 Wcxxti<i>Ave9.4, 1275. 71H55.4
SAN JOSE (400)
ognrrPyO, B ox2 177S, antaC lara9, 5055.9 77-4218.
EcumenicCala tholicC hu~ch3,7 4-3430S. cottB urirs, contacpt ersm
FirstC hristiaCn hurch8, 0 S. 51hS I., 951122 94-294. 4RichardK .
Millerp, astor.
Gay,L esbiana,n dA ffirminDg iscple,s c/o FirstC hrist1aCnh urc,h 80
So.5 1hS I.,9 51122. 94-294. 4
HooannCah 1.1cohf P rais,e 24N . .S lhSt, 951122 93-0700.
MCC, PO Box2 288,9 5109·228. 2879-27116.5 S. 7thS I. Sunda,y
6:X'p.m.W, ed,7 ;3:p.m.
N~wC ommunitoy f Faith,6 350R airtx:iwD r., 95129.2 5.3-14.0 8
AJChaErd. Tay.orp, astorV. ikkiY eghcyana.s sociateA. Welcoming
andA ffirminAg mericaBn aptisct ongregation
ValleyWes!Chtrch5,9 1W . HamiltooAv..e S te.2 15.G ampJeCUA,
9:'rul-08113. 79-0740.
SANL EANDRO(5 10)
SanL eanctoC ommunitCyh urch1, 395B ancrofAt ve.,9 54774. 83-
181.1 KayWelli1g1Poo,S, l<l
SANL ORENZ(O5 10)
MCCo f GreaterH ay.yard1,0 0H acienda9,4 5804. 81•976JS. un..
12:30p.m
SANL UISO BISPO(0 05)
MCCo f theC entraCl oastP, OB ox1 117G, roveCr ity,9 3483-1117
481-937S6.I Nlday1,0 :3'.l:l.mR.e v.A ardf A. Lester~, slor.
SANTA BARBARA/VENTUCROAU NTAY REA(8 05)
MCC2, 3J LigllhooseR d, SantaB arbar,a 93100·19055€. 13-1615
MCCP, OB ox2 5610V, entur,a 130026. 43-0502S.u nday6,: 2(\).m.
at 4949 Foolhil Ad.
SANTAC RUZ(4 08)
LavendeRro adM CCP, OB a<1 7649, 5'.l613.3 5-046. 6
SANTAR OSA(7 07)
EcumenicCala tholiCc hurch8, 65--011A9r.c hbishqM:) arkS hirilau.
NewH cpeM CCP, OB ox1 12789, 5400-127582: 6-HOPES.u nday,
noona t 3632A irweyO f
STOCKTO(N20 9)
ChristiaSn ciercele sbBnsB, ox7 1049, 5267-710447. 3-2129.
DeltaH aivestt, ./CC1,1 6W. W~IONSI.9, 5212-104457. 7-144. 0
WHITTIE(R3 10)
GocxS1 amaritanM CC,1 1931W ashingtoBnl vd.0, 0306-260679. 6-
6213.
BlltJLDER(3 03)
Gay& ConcerneCda thdicsS. I. ThomaAs qi.JinaUsn iversitPy arish.
90414~Sl,OC(l(Q443-838'.l
COLOAADSCP RING(S7 19)
EvangelicalsC oncernedW estern Region ResourceC enter.
crewman@ao!.com.
P!<esP eakM CC7. ':JJN .T el"', 809036. 34-3771
DENVER(3 03)
Axios:E asternO rthodoxC hri~lians1,1 635E . CedarA ve.,A urora.
OCIJ12343-9997.
Ch,islChaμ,9I,Z 2E.Z lrdAW.,8 (0)~511.1.
EvangelicalRs econciled3,3 1-2709o r erdenver@aol.c.o Mmeets
evaryo tl"erw eek.
LulherarCs oncerredt4. 41H umbokJlS,IA..J l5l 07 00218-237402.2 -
3176.
t--1,CcC it he Acd<ie, s980ClarksoSnt , 802188. €0-181. 9
SLP au's·u~. 16150g:EnSt,& 12188.3 2-49;:9
PUEBLO(7 19)
MCCP, OB ox1 918. 810025. 4J.648J
Connecticut
HARTFOR(D86 0)
CenlraBl aplisCl hurch4, 57M ainS I.,0 01035. 22-9275. Paul G. Gif
lespie,p astorA. Welcominagn dA ffirmingA mericanB aptisCt on=
lion. SlW)rt g<ll!l lorgays and ilsbians.
Dgiily, POB o<7 2,0 61412. 96-9229
MCX:1, 841B roadS t, 051417. 24-4005S.u nday1, 0:30a.m. lveel.a5!
lheC ommuniCtJe nterR. ev.D avidF .J arvisp, astOf.
MANCHESTE(8R6 0)
EcumenicaCl atholicC hurchD ioceseo f NewE nglandP, .O. Box
3&ll, 0:04~3&ll. 742-1412
NEWH AV EN( 203)
~. 34 HarrisoSn t.,0 65153. 89-6750.
:~~~rn~~g:~~~~~}~a~~AJ-:1r~St:6R~v~
8!1lx:~;
GarberaO, XJrdnab.
NOANK(203)
~~~~~ ~a~~:~Z:J.•. ;~~1~~:
a:i~~~=e~!~
~ci~m:;i
UCCIJGC1,4 7V irgriaL n,C ffl848. 72-65'.l7.
VEANON(860)
EcumenicaCl atholicC hurchK oinoniaM inistries8, 71-0153R. ev.
DennisF imegan.
WATERBURY(203)
lrrtegilyd, o St Johrtsct,m:h,1 6Chu~hSt, (151024.8 2-4239.
WESTH ARTFOR(D86 0)
St Francis& ClaireE CCA3, 60 ParkR d, Apt A-2, 001192. 32·
5119.
District of Columbia
DISTRICOT FC OLUMBI(A2 02)
Affirmalio(of. 'elhoost;)P, OB ox2 363(\ 200266. 67-CXXll.
Affirmalio(nM oonoosP) OB ox7 7'JJ42,0 01:J.7'JJ842.8 -3'.>36.
CIYisUl MC, 41h& I St;. SW,2 Xl24.5 44-9117.
Churcho l lhe DisciJlesM CC,9 123 rdS t, NW,2 00l1. 842-4870.
S111.1, ca.mT. heR ev.H arry8 . Stockp, aster.
Dgiily, PO Bo< 53001, 20C09. 387-4516.
Dlllltarl:lnU MC3, 133D lllltarl:lnAve.N W,'J ffJI. 333-7212.
FaithT empl,e 1313NewYerkAve2.0,C 055. 44-276. 5
lnlegi!y,P O Box1 95612, 00l6-0561l3. 01)953-9.QG1a. yspring
Ki1shp'SDA1,« xJ2 0lhS I.,N W/ /0072, 00J>2. 96-2441.
LulheransConcern2e1<2\ E CapildSI.S, E,2 00l1·1036.( 703)486-
3567.
MCC,4 74A~ St.,N W,2 XXJ.1 638-7373S. urday91, 1a.m, 7. pm.
PLGCc, JoW estminstePrr est7yteriCanh urch·4, 00 I SI.,S W, 2C024.
f!&-'2fi/9.
RiVersideB aptistC hurch, 600 Eye St. SW, 20024. 554-4330.
MichaeBl lectoe,p astor.
WashingtoFor iends(Q uakers2),1 11F loridaA ve,. NW2 :008.4 83-
3310.
Florida
BOCAR ATON(4 07)
Ch1.1chOofu rSaviorMCC4,7 70-CN W2 rdAve., 334319. 9&0454.
SIJ'l(By1, 0:338.m7.:,3 Q.:ml . Rev.J ohnF . Jacd:s , pasta
CLEARWATE(8R1 3)
FreeC athdicC htxcho ! the ResLRTectPkOn. 8 0( 3454.3 4615. 442-
31l573.0 3N . Myrt~A ve.
COCOA(4 07) . .
Breakintgh e SilerceM CC,P OB ox1 5853, 29236. 31· 4524
COCONUGTR OVE(3 l5)
Pt,moomC c,jJre;ialkrnCl hurch3,4 00 DevooA d 331334. 44{)521.
AIDSo otreachm inistryA. l arew elcome.
St. Stephen'Es plsccpaP! arishin theG rove27, 50M cFalar neR d.,
331334. 48-2601F. AX4 48-215.A3.n i nclus1Vpea rish! amityC. omixehensivAeI
DSm inistryF. r. BcbM cCloskerye, ctor
DAY TO NAB EACH(9 04)
Hq>eM CCP, O Box1 51513, 21152. 54-0993
FORTL AUDERDAL(9E5 4)
Ct,,Jrcdt, theH Qo/pSi il MCC3, 30SW2 71hS t, 3331.5 462·:J:Xl4
Dgiily, POB o<Z 28843,3 335.4 63-4528.
FORTM YERS(9 41)
A11Sai1C1oso gega1io(lnn dependen2l)7, 56Mc:GregB,rlv d,3 3901.
Mail_inagc ttess: 1830M aravillaA ve., #512,3 3901. Rev. Michael
Ba~ourp,a stor.
St Johnl he AposlleM CC,P O Box2 107, 33002-21072.7 8-5181
2209 Unitya t thec omero f BroadNa. ySunday1, Da.m., 7p.m.R ev.
RenneShaW.v l:lr
GAINESVLILE( 352)
UnitedCtKuc1h6, 24NW5thAv..e ~
INTEALACH(E9N0 4)
Be!~I Evangelisct MllislriesI,~ .• POB ox1 7783, 2148. 684-6479.
JACKSONVIL(L9E04 )
SI. Luke'sM CC,,1 140S . McDutAt ve, 32205-755318. 9-7726F,A X
389-7626.. Sunday9, a.m.. 11a .m,. 7p.m. Rev.F rankyeA . While,
pasto.r Peaceliz@a.ocol m.
KEYW EST( 305)
MCC,1 215P etroniaS t., 33040.2 94-8912S. unday9,:30, 11a.m.,
Wed,7 p.mR. ev.S tevenM Torrercep, astor.
KISSIMME(E40 7)
Sis. Perpetua& FelicityE cuinenicaCt atholicC hurch, 33 Las
Pamas3, 47433. 48-5440F. r. BernardM? ora&s
MIAM(I0 05)
ChrisMt CC7, 70\ SW7 6thA ve.,3 31432. 84-1040.
GraceC hurcho f MiamiS hores1, 0390N E 2ndA ve.,3 3138. 75&
6822.J ohnA my, pastor.S un., 11: 30a.m, .praisea nd worshP.
1oa.mB., tb!estudj.
PlymouthC ongregationCalh urch(UCC3),4 00D evon_ R,d 33133.
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OCALA(904)
Hooseo lVicloryChruch,P OB ox2 841, 3267&2841:,.S S-001348.a J
E. SilverS pringsB lvd.
ORLAND0(407)
~~(g~c~8f1~e:!~~-~~-001
PANAMCAI TY( 904)
Familyo f GOOW orshipC ente,r 11~9E veri!AI ve. 784-485. 1Sun.,
10:30a.m.R ev. ThomasA . Gashlmp, astor.M emberA: llianceo f
ChrlsHaCnh llches. scottfcgx:@aol.0.0 11
PENSACOL(A9 04)
HolyC rossl v1C,C 415N . A!caniz St., 325014. 33-8528S. unday,
1fa.m.W, ed.7, p.m.
ST PETERSBUR(G81 3)
Dlglity.P O Box1 337P, inelasP ark. 34664-133273. 8-28€8.
Kingo f Peace~ c. 31505 th Ave.N , 337133. 23-5857S. unday,
100.m., 7:3Cp.m. . . . ·
St. Philip EcumenicaCl atholicC hurch.3 67-8352R. ev. Patncra
Bing,am.
SARASOT(A8 13)
Churcho l 1heT rinity/ --.AC7C2.2 5N . LockwooRdi dge Rd.,3 4243-
4526.3 55-0047S. l.003,y 1oa.m.
Integrityc, lo St. BooifaceC hurc,h 5615M iOOigPhat ssR d.,3 4242-
1721. 349-$16.
TALLAHASSEE
GentleS hepherdM CC,P O Box6 137,3 2314R. ev.S usanT ed:ier,
pasta.
TAMPA(813)
MCC, 408 E. Cayuga St.. 33603. 239-1951.
UFMCCTamp:i@.caooml .
St. John The EvargelistE cum~nicaCl alholicC hurch.P O Box
2800503, 3682.9 79-4940F.r . DanieWl 1Nia.m s
WESTP ALMB EACH(5 61)
Dgrjt;, PO Box3 014T, eq.iesla3,3 4i!l. 744-15916.4 1-9944.
~t~·~~m1 ~~~~: ~ :~it~.~~~687-3943.
Suooay9, :15,1 1a.m.S ervice-salsoi n Ft. Piercef,x li-3943 andP t
St lJJcil,340-0421.
Georgia
ATLANTA(404)
Dg,ily,P O Bo<1 = 303244. '.l9-020l
FirstM CCP, O Box6 356,3 0306-03568. 72-2248&.' .)'.)N . Higland
Ave. NE. .
lrrtegily,P O Box1 :ml. 30024-00036. 42-3183.
Lul1"ranCs OOO!rnePdO, Box1 36733,0 3246. 36-7100.
AISainlSMCCP, OB ox1 39683, 03246. 22-115. 4
PLGCP, O Box8 362,3 roJ6 373-5630.
Soo11"mVdceP,O Box1 821~: !J3168. 76-1819.
UULGC1, 911C littValllyWay3, Cll296. 34-5134.
DECATU(R< !04) ·
cmst CovenanMt CC, 100H berriaAve.3, 0l30.2 97-0350.
St. Aelred ECCA, 203 Wilton Dr., 30030. 377-3780.
elee@wsetp..b.com.
LITHI~S PRING(S7 70)
EcumenicCala tholiCc hurch7, 39-6479ri.c tml@aol.com.
MARIETT(A7 70)
Mt Calvaryl. igllhouse,5 46 LittleS t, Apl 8, 30060-2653B. ro.P .
Jctmsonp,a sta. .
SAVANNA(H9 12)
Discl)leso f lhe Trinit; MCCP, .O. Box1 48243; 1416. 231-1005
l-lieetast 321Y orkS t i1t heH istoricD istric. tMalB aileyp, asto.r
Hawaii
MAUI (ID!)
NewL ileraliooM CCP, O Box3 47,P uu,ere9, 67848.7 9,;193.
OAHU(et8)
Affirmatio(nM ormons)P, OB ox7 5131H, onolulu9,6 836-013213. 9-
4995.
Dgiily, PO Box3 956H, onduu9, 6812-395563.6 -55:;';.
Ke AnuenueO Ke AlohaM CC,P O Box 12200H, onolulu9,6 828-
12609. 42·1~7.S IJ1Cl!1y1, a.m.O, deC annerSy q, 7p.m.. 1212U n,
versityA ve.
AeigiCllSs cience5,2 0M akapuAuw ., Hondulu9, 68169. 42-000. 0
UULGC2,5 00P ail Hwy,. Honduu9, 68176. 23-4726.
Idaho
BOISE(20EI)
MCCP, OB ox1 9596, 37~. 342-6764.
Illinois
ALTON g~Ii~t0
v~toorcti. a;13M axeys t. Atton.I ,L 62002-4779.
Chcag:l>n !erfattCh ongressP,O B ox6 0039G, CBO7O8.4 -263. 5
Cticag)O U!!ne53,0 59N .S outtport,f ll357.8 71-7610.
Christt he RedeemeMr CC,P O Box6 146,E vanston0,0 '20-46146.
(706)262-000. 0933C hi:ag:A, ve.
Churcho f the ResurrectioMn CC,5 540S . Wocolawnro, 337.2 88-
153.5 Worst\Pse!V1ic0e: 30a..m Sun.
Dgiily, 9(l) w. BeknonlAvel/.2, 0, 00657-44002.9 6-0780
Emerg,nceP,O Box2 547&, ml.
GoodS hepherdP arishM ::C,6 15W . WellingtoAnv e.,6 0057-530. 5
427-6700S lfl(By,7 p.m.
GraceB aptisCt hurch1, 307\ I.JeGsra! nvilleA ve.,~- 262-87~.
KeltyS prinklep, astorA. Welcorrnnagn dA ffirminAg mericanB apttst
::r=nl MCC, 17W . Mape,H insdale6,0 521-3495(-700)325-
8468.S unday6,p .m. .
HotyF a~ity EcumenicaCl atholicC hurch7, 21-5383F. r. Jim WilkcmskJi.
3 .w34007@aol.com.
lnlegily, PO Box3 232,O akP ar10<0 303-3232( m)346-6362.
L~i-.ransC rn:ernedP, O Box1 0197o,o ;10.3 42-1647.
PLGC,c /o LincolnP ark PresbyteriaCn hurch,6 00 W. Fullerlon
Pkwy.&, X;14-28.J 7O64-2635
ShammahC hristianF ellowshipP, O Box5 427,E vansto,n 60'204.
561-5524.
UULGCc, :JoS econdU nitarianC hurch.6, 56W . BarryA ve.,f f:1357.
549-0260.
UCCUGC6,1 71N .S 1"riclmR d, !'2701O, Olxi0-2835388 -0452.
EVANSTO(N70 0)
LakeS lreelC hllch, 007L akeS t, 602018. 64-218. 1Rro>rtT hom~
son,p astorA. Welcominga ndA ffirmingA mericaBn aptisct orgegalbn.
JACKSONVILL(E21 7)
St ~imilian KoR)eE CCAP, O Box1 3456, 2650-134254. 3-~.
FAX,2 43-4735E. CCRis an inciusivech urchA. Hw eloomed
OUINCY(217)
MCCI HiamoP,. O.B ox4 21,6 23J6-042t.2 '24-2800.
ROCKIS LAND(3 00) .
LutheranCsm cerred, P.O. Box3 891, 61204-3891.
MCCQ uadC ities1, 0011 8thA ve.,6 12)4-61327.$ 5655.
SPRINGFIEL(D21 7)
FatthE ternawl ee,~ W. AllenS t.,6 27045. 25-9597.
~~e~;,~g/\A:w~ it~hampagn, 618203. 44-1924
PLGC, 809S . 51hS t, Champiga,, 61820
VILLA PARK (6301 .
BereanC hrisllanF ellcmsh~P. OB ox6 875,6 0181-687.5 ~95-5704.
Bro. G. Blainep,a storN. GPA@concen.ntreict
WAUKEGA(N9 47) . . .
First CoogregationaUln itedC hurcho f Christ,3 15 N. Utica~ I..
60085.3 36-5368.R ev.B radS . Lutz,m inisterA. nO pena ndA fflrming
Ccxigregalion
Joyol Lile MCC,5 11S . LewisA ve.,6 0085-6105(7. 08)578-5022.
2(131D ugjallRd
Indiana
BLOOMINGTO(8N1 2) ~b'Wr~~~ 2
~. 474(>!-323323 9-0426
NewW orldC hurchP, O Box1 15534, 6859.4 56-657. 0222 E. Leilh
St
OpenD oorC haμ,\3 426Brood.va4y6,0 077 44-1199.
TaskF orce,F irstP restylerianC hu~ch3.0 0W . WayneS t., 46802.
426-7.Ql.
INOIANAPOL(I3S1 7)
Affirmalbn(M ethcx:ist3s3}, E . 32ndS L,4 62059. 25-004. 3
~~t:h~~c:~c&o r=t. Ste.7 , 46?20. 251-452. 5
JesusM CCP, OB o: 441551-,4 m44-15.5 3157-9687.
Iowa
CEDARR APIDS(3 19)
Al FailhsM CCP, O 8(1(4 12,5 2400a. l6-920.7
CORAVL ILLE( 319)
lnlegily,P OB ox5 2255, 22413. 51-9263.
· DAVENPOR(3T1 9)
GlADA lliance2,> 28W esternA ve.,5 20Cl3-1437234. -6231.
DESM OINES(5 15)
Churcho l lhe HO¥S ~ril MCC,P .O.B ox8 426,5 03012. 64-7940.
Officea ndw orsh1s) pacel ocateda t 1548 8th St. Sun.. ep.mR. ev.
PaUW hitingl.ll ,Slo.r
Wordo f GodM inistriesP, .O.B ox4 396,5 0333.2 70-2709M. eetsa t
St Mark'sE piscq)aCl hurcti3, 120E .2 4~ SI., DesM ooes.
IOWAC ITY( 319)
Faith UnrtedC hurcho f Christ 1009D eForesSt t., 5224.0 338-5238.
~iw~~~~~egaloo
NASHUA(515)
UCCIJGCc,/ oG armen-LinCdao rl<i1l, RR25, 06584. 35-!'00a
SIOUXC ITY( 712)
MCCP, OB o<3 61,5 1102-036215. 5-6005.
URBANDAL(5E1 5)
Urba0031Ue nitedC hurcho l Chri:.t7, 002 OliverS mithO r., 50322.
276-0025A. n Opena ndAtti:mi1gCoogeg,loo.
WATERLO(O3 19)
Churcho f NewH opeM CC,P O Box3 4, 507042. 34-1981M. eetsa l
3912C edarH IS.C, edarF alls.
Kansas
TOPEKA(9 13)
MCCP, OBo<4 77~ 66f/J4-077.6 232-6196S.E l nclanaAveal251h
WICHITA(316)
Frst~c. 156S.K ansaAs ve.,6 72112. 67-1852.
WichitaP raisea ndW Of'ShC~e nter1. 007S . Broact,va6y7, 2112. 67-
6270.C hucikB reck.ti~. pastor.
Kentucky
HENDERSO(5N0 2)
Zbn UCCP, O 80<' JJ2.7«,> 4208. 28--0::a,. Rev.B enG I.Essp,a stor.
LEXINGTO(N60 6)
Interweav3e5, 54C laysM ilAl d, «>503.2 23-1448
LOUISVILL(E5 02)
Alego, PO Box 4004, 40204. 581-1829.
CentraPl resl>/leria3n1. 8W . KenluckAy ve.,4 02035. 87-6935S.u nday,
11a.m.
CIYSCI hurctci aIi-.ctal <Q1s .2 rxlSI,. 402025. 87-1354.
conferencefo r CatholicL esbiansP, O Box4 7784. 0204-077889. 5-
00:11. .
Dignil,y POB o<4 7784, 02045. 81-1841.
Lul1"ranCs oocernePdO, Box7 00Zl lllf,7.f:RM.. 897-5719.
MCCP, O llo<324744, 02327 75-fl'xfl.4 222S ankS l
PLGCP, O Box7 6924 0257-00.0 6297-5719.
ThirdL uther'aCnh urch1, 864F rankfoArt ve.,4 0200. 896-638.3 Sunday,
1owa.m. TLCX2@ecurel.org
PADUCA(H5 02)
MCCP, OB o<1 7~ WeslP acix:a~4 200.6 441-230. 7
Louisiana
BATONR OUGE(5 04)
Jcied ! Vr.reM CCP, O Box6 49967, 08963. 83-0450.
SolidarityH ouse/BatoRn ougeC atholicW orke_1r,2 75L aureSl t.,
708023. 89-957,2 383-6010G. ay-friendCy athohWc orkeor ommunityo
f hcspitality/lcxtjnfogr SJX>UaSbaul sev ictims.
PLGC, 2285C edard:tle70, 600.
COVINGTO(N50 4)
AbundanGt raceC hristianF eUooshi8p3, 2 E. BostooS t.,# 3, 7043.1.
871•9 527P. astcrsL eeT hoolpsoann dY olancBY aeger.
LAFAYETTE(318) .
MCCP, OB o<9 2682,7 0WJ.2 32-05462. 11G artieki
LAKEC HARLES(3 18)
~. POB o<3 84, 7C1.J:4Q3.9. -90095. 1O B reedS t
NEWO RLEANS('J J4)
ECCRm xese of theS cuth4, 473M apeL eafD r.,7 01313.9 3-7244
FirstJ esusN ameC hurch, P.O. Box5 8362, 70158-8362A n Acts
2:38 cageg,100.
GraceF elcr,vsh~P,O B o<7 C6557,0 1729 44-9836.
St. AmbrooEeC l!TlenicCaal tooliCc hurch5, 58-0713F.r .J ayR ubar.
UCCUGC9,4 4J oyceS I., Marrer~7 0072-230304. 1-4600.
V~uxC arreM CC,1 128S I. RochA ve.,7 0117-77169. 45-5300S.u n-
:l:lsfM~NAOE (318)
GodsG ardenG ro.vthM issionP, .O. Box2 631,7 129.4 Sr.A . Boyd,
paster.
Maine , ,
BANGOA(:!l7)
Dignit;P, O Box1 1XNl, crlhS ullwan0,4 664-0llXl
PORTLAN(D2 07)
Ogiily, PO Box 811~ 04104.
WALDOBOR(O:!l 7)
lrrtegilyP, OB a<2 5,0 4572.
Maryland •
~~eErt:t~
1
~~Jlion for Free State Justice c/o Paint Branch UU
Clurch, ~15 Pooclar Mil Rd, 2l71D. 77&6891.
BALTIMORE (443)
Tre Allemative, PO Box 2351, 21203. (301)Zl5-3401.
Archaocesan Gay/Lesbian Outreach, 2034 Park Ave., 21217. 728-
2638.
Ognity, POB0< 12«3, 21203-1243. 325-1519.
Firal New Covenant Felk><ihp Chll'cti, 5 W. Fort Ave., 21230-4407.
SZJ,7700. Sun<lly, 2:1!'!).m. at Dorg.ilh UMC, 527 Scol1St
lnle!Jit-f, c/o EmmaruerChurch, 811 Cathectal St, 212)1. 732•0718.
L~l'erans Coro,med Box 23271, 21203-5271. 225-0:63.
MCC, 3«J1 O~YO!I< Rd, 21218. 800-6363.
BETHESDA (301)
Open Door MCC, PO Box 127, Br,,<ls, 20841-0127. 001·9112 Su~
day, 10:3:la.m., 7p.m. at 15817 Baroos,I~ Rd
Massachusetts
BOSTON (617)
Ognity. 95 Beri(eoys1 .. .w;1a 32116. 423"558.
Ecumenical Cattd ic Church, 227•5794. BishqJ Paul Oi~r idt
sgswoca®aol.oom.
s,w:,n Groq,, Cl'<Jrchol ll'e C<M!nant fi/ Nev.ourySt , 02116. 26&
74lll.
lnte!}"ity, c/o Chnsl Church, 12 Quincy Ave., Quincy, 02100. TTJ.
ro10.
MCC, PO Box 15590, Kenmore Sin., 02215. 288-8029. SunOOy,
7p.m. at 131 Cant>rkge St, Beacoo Hil.
CAMBRIDGE (617)
Friends for Lesbian/Gay Concerns (Quakers); 5 Longfe1IOH Paik,
02138.8-
Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Massachusetts Ave., 02138.
864-&66. Irving Cummings, pastor. A Welcoming and Affirming
Ameratn Baptist C9flg"egalion.
fil'~~~~i~(:7kcR, 3 Hoi<EnSt, Apt 1, 02124. 822-0767.
FRAMINGHAM (508)
Pari( Slreet Bapt•t Cl'<Jrch, 38 Frankin St, 01701. 872•1091. Pe!l]I
Wallace, pastor. A Welcoming & Affirming American Baptist Cong-
egatiCll.
HOLDEN(sotl)
UCCt/GC, PO Box 400, 015al.11,6-9316
OSTERVILLE (508)
Heallhsigis counseling Cenler, 100 Acorn Or., 02655. 420-0258.
Anre lerarcl, clrecb". '
SANDWK:H(508)
St Luke ECCR, 5 Emi~ Ln., IY256:l. 42&8301.
SPRINGFIELD (413) :~fM\~sa;1, 01101-5(!;1 737-478a
L~herans COOcemed do Randlll Rice, 1081/2ChestrtrtSI., 02154-
0406. lll3-27al.
WORCESTER (508)
Firal Baptist Church, 111 Parl<Ave., 01009. 7-1«3. Barbara Sinclair
Ward, associate pastor. A Welcoming and Affirming American
Bapisl ooogegalion.
Morning Star MCC, 231 Main SI., CoorryVal~y. 01611. 892·4320.
Pli>: f.Aoming Star Witness
Unitarian Universalisls for St/Gay/Lesbian Concerns, PO Box 592,
Wes~icl! Sin, 01602 755-0005
Michigan
ANN ARBOR (313) .
Canilrbu!yHoos~ 721 E. Huron St, 1'2R, 48104-1526.
HurooValle'{Ganmuri1yCl'<lrch, 1001 Groon Rd., 481t&2006. 741·
1174. Sundly, 2().m. al G~cier Way UMC.
Treeol Lile MX, 485-3922. 66&6163. Mee~ ams1 Congeg,lbnal
Clurch, 218 N. Acllms, Yp;ilanl Ml 48197-2507. Sutday, t,,m.
DETROIT (313)
Cruoe Ma!)'!Zi1e, 191:Ji Wood.vard N., 48200. 369-1001.
Dgnity, PO Bo< 32874, ~ !fil-0892.
lo,gity, rio Emmam.ol Episcq>,1 Church, 18320John R St, 48200.
4:,9-7319.
MCC Delroil, PO Box 836, Royal Oak, Ml 48068-0836. (810)399·
7741. PIJJ!ication: Cornerstone. Meets at Drayton Ave. PreWjterian
Clurch, Fe<n<ll~. Sun, lll3.m., 7p.m. = g:g~~~":1'r~~~eMa.=:a_oo St
NEM"" General ions Yoo1h Gratp meets Wed, ~m. at 1150 Griswold
Ste. 29<ll'-. 496-0158
FERNDALE (810)
Bethel Christian Assembi'y East PO Box 20193, 48220. 543-9545.
be)helca@aol.com. An Al))Slolichurch for you. PastCJS Bruce and
Phil., Aoller•Pletcher.
FUNT (810)
Dgnity, PO Box 585, 48501. .
Redeemer MCC, 1665 N. Chevrolet Ave., 48504-3164. 238-6700.
Sunday, 6p.m. Rev. Unda J. Stoner, pastor. P~: Sounds of
Aedeeme,.
FT. GRATIOT (610)
All Sou~• Apoolol< Calhol< Churcti, 4653 Desmond Beach. 48059.
~J'i\~J(6~)s1Sun 1ta.m.
Apostolic Assembfies of Our God Jesus Christ. PO Box 6935,
49546. 956-0!lJ9. llelhel:a@aol.com.
Dgnity, PO 80< 1373, 49501. 454-9n9.
Reconciliation MCC, PO Box 12£-9, 4.9501. 364·7633.
KALAMAZOO (616)
Phoenix Community Chwch, PO Box 2222, 49003-2222 381-3222,
SLl'lday, ~.m. at UnitedCh11ch of Ctrisl.
LANSING (517)
Dglil'f, PO Bo< 1265, East Lansirg, 48826.
Ecdesia, meets at People's Church, 200 W. Grand River. Sunday,
7:3Q:>.m.
lntegily, rio All 5ainls Church, 800 Ablxltt Rd .. Easl Lansing 48823.
WYANDOTTE (313) ·
Marta~le 0~ CalhooChrrc!\ 200310th St, 48192·4994. 28l·:ll82
Minnesota
MARSHALL (507)
L~he,a"' Coo:emed'lntegity, PO B"' 3013, 56258. (000)235-3708
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (612) -
Affirmation (Mormons), PO Box 3878, Minneapolis, 55403. 753-
3345.
Allirmation (United Methodists). 101 E. Grant Sl, Minneapolis,
55403. 874-661a 87t,3585 .
All Gods Children MCC, 3100 Park Ave. S., -Minneapolis, 55407.
824-2673. Window of Wellness Counseling Genier offers p:>Sitive
aflirming Chrisl!an counseling for homosexuals.
Catholic Pastoral Committee. 1118 Farrington St., St. Paul, 55117-
4802. 3'»0018
Dig,ity, PO Box 3565, Min~aix,ltS, 55403. 827·3103
lnla;Jrity, do University Epsccpal Center, 317 17th Ave SE, Minneapd'is.
55414. 825-23)1.
Judson Memorial Baphst, 4101 Harrie!Ave. So., Minn., 55409. 822-
0649. Dale K. Ecinoodson, pastor. A Welcoming and Afllrming
Amercan Baptist congregation.
Lulherars Com!rne<1100N. Oxlord SI., SI. Paul, 55104-5540. 866-
0041.
Presbyterians fOf Lesbian and Gay Concerns, c/o Grace Trinity
Church, 1430 W. 28th St. near Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis. 884-
69:lS. Foorth Mon., 7:Xp.m. rvwhenn@wmtemetcan.
Spirit of I~ Lakes Comm~nity Church, {UCC), 2930 13th Ave. S.,
Mitneapd•, 56407. 724-231a Sunclly, 11l3.m., Wed, 7p.m,
Temple Baptist Churcit, 3100 Goumbus Ave., s, 55407. 823-{i268.
Che~ Winch, Wek:ooring and Affinning Coogregalon con~cl.
Trinity River Church, P.O. Box 8936, Minn, 55408. 870-89!:6. Services
held al 1819 Ni:::ollet Ave. S.
UCCl/GC, 134 W. 43rd'St, Mitneapdis, 55409.
Universily ~!isl Chrrch, 1219 Universily Ave., SE, 55414. Nadean
Bisl-ql, pastor. A Wek:ooring arxJAHinning Coigregalloo.
Wi"gsjlln Minstry, 100 N. Oxfor(\ SI. Pall\ 55104. 224-3371.
Mississippi
JACKSON (001)
Gayandle~nTask Force, POBox m7, 39284-ml . 3~10 .
PhOeniK GoaliliOO, Inc., PO Bax 7737, 3921)>7737. 373-8610,939·
7181. Gounselitg seNials.
Safe Halb:>r Famity Church, 2147 Henry Hm Dr., Ste. 203, 39204.
20CO. 961-9500. Rev. James H. Becker, pas!Df. Wkclay: 359-6004;
Ew: 373-0917. SIil., f4).m.
Missouri
COLUMBIA(314)
3::1;~1~~j~~~~~;Jls~':a~~=1449"'.i,~16
KANSAS CITY AREA (816)
Abking Peace Lulhe!an Church, !:090 NE Chouteau TraffJCWay,
64119. 452·1222 Cannglorpec:pleandcreaOOll. MaiyGerken, con•
lad person. A Re<:oo.'.:iled in Chis! corgegalicrt.
Affirmation (United ~lhooists), 5700 Virg'nia Ave., 64110.2855.
Jlll,$2 .
l3nt':i~i:,,o~~1~, ~~14J:7~i~1. 432-6l3l.
LutreransCoro,med PO Box 413702. 64141.
MCC, PO Box 10067, 64111®7. 931-0750. 3801 Wyancxtl!.
MCC Johnson County, 12510 W. 62nd Ten., #100, Shawnee Missoo,
00216. (913)631-1164.
New Jerusalem FellONsh" Ministries, PO Ba,c 10496, 64111. 753-
3134.
ST. LOUIS AREA (314)
Ag,pe Cl'<lrc!\ 'Zlr:RrArmand Pl., a3104-2214. 664-3588.
~~PO~~ffl-~~00 t120~manSt
Montana
BILLINGS(406)
Famio/ of Goo MCC, 645 Ha.a rd fil101. 245-7006. Sundly, 11 a.m.,
~eM';,~,406)
Aflinnatoo(United fkll'KXlsls), 1COON. 17th Aw., 1129, f,fJ715. 586-
7438.
~=;~~ii!~':J. MX, PO Box 2162 59400. 771-1070. 15ffi .
17th Ave., SW, 59«l4. .
Nebraska
OMAHA(402)
MCC, PO Box 3173-68103. 345-2563. 819 S. 22rxJSt
PLGC, rioEvans, 3810131hSt,#22. 68107. 733-136).
Nevada
LASVEGAS(7T)2)
MCC, 1119S. Main St, 89104-1026 364-2325.
Mustard Seed Ministries, P.O. Box 70053, 89170. 26!1-1876. Sr. W. ~~·raJr MCC oltooSorra, POBO< 21192, 89515-1192 ~
New Hampshire
FRANCESTOWN (603)
PFLAG, 731 BENNINGTON RD., 030«3. lm0023.
MANCHESTER (603)
P-FLAG, PO Box 386, 03105. 623-6023. Monlho/ me,tings in Concad,
Nashua, Stratham, Mcnadoock
NASHUA (603)
lnlegity, PO Box 412. 03l61. 882-5352
PORTSMOUTH (603)
Jucith A. Palais, MSW, BCD, psychotherapist. Gay/lesbian
OO!l)lesiirdviruas. «i1-1000.
New Jersey
ASBURY PARK (900)
Dgnity, POBO<OOt. 07712 774-4031. ~t~:;'?~ ~:funner Eas~m ECCR, 103 Park V~w Ave , 07~7.
797-1866.
JERSEY CITY (201)
Chris! OurTeachef ECCR, 219 Fi'St St, #1,07302·2868. m-1094.
~fttft~~201)
~rw~,R~. ,~e;ts Church, 550 Rdgewocd Rd, 07040. 761-7321.
Tre Oasis, Calt-edral Hoose, 24 Reeter St., 07102. 621-8151.
NEW BRUNSWICK (908)
~g';~h~I: ~::1a~:1oU~~ 84&8227.
PLGC, PO Box 38, 089o:l-0038. PLIJ: t/ore Light ll>Jale.
SUSSEX (201)
Tl'e l.o'ling Brolherhocd, PO Bo< 556, 07461. 875-4710.
New Mexico ~
ALBUQUERQUE (505)
Dignily, PO Box 27294, 87125._898-33«3. dgnil@swcp.com. Web
si~: httpJ/W\wi.swcp.com/-dglrly.
Emmaroel MCC, 341 Dalas NE. 268-0599. emccatQim@aol.com.
Kinsh!). Sewnlh Day AdvenUsls, PO Box 26012. 87125.
MCC, 2404 San Mateo Pl., NE, 87110. 881-9088. Rev. Dr. Fred C.
Wi1!8ms, pastor. Sun., 1Da.m.
River ol Life Heaing Miristries, 134 Quincy, NE, 87108.
LAS CRUCES (505)
Holy Family Parish o! the Evangalical Anglican Church in America,
1701 E. Missouri Ave., 88001. 522-7119. An inclusive p:1.rishq:ien to
all
Koinonia, 2162 D~ad:J Dr., 88011. 521·1490. Gay and lesbian spirit·
ualitygr"'ll,
SANTA FE (505)
TreCalst>JConno::ticn, 551 W. c.oro:,,a, Sle. DIE. 87:01. 986-1794.
New York
ALBANY/CAPITAL AREA (518)
Community of St. John Christian Orthooox Church, PO Box 9073.
12200. 346-0207. Fr. Herman. Ptb: Metaooia
Dgiily, PO Box 11204, Lou<btvile, 12211-0204. 4:Ji.8646.
Emmanuel Baptist Church, 275 Slate SI., Abany, 12210. 465-5161.
. Roy A. Donkin, pastor. A Welcoming and Affirming American Bai,
101 Congegation ·
lntegity, do Grace & Hofy' lnrooents, 498 Clintcri Ave., 12200. 455,
1112
L\jtlhouse Apoold< Church, PO Box 1391. Schenectac!;, 12301-
1~1. 372-8))1. Bro. W. H. Carey, pasi)f.
MCC, 275Slale St , 12210. 785-7941.
BUFFALO (716)
Diglily, PO Box 75 ENM:ott Sin., 14205. 833-009~
lnllgity, rio Church ollhe Ascensicn, 16 LiMocd Ava, 14209. 884-
6362
Pink TriangE! Christian Felk:mshp, PO Box 7'Z2. Blicott Sin., 14205-
0722. 645-6971. PLIJ: Spirilworks. .
GENEVA (315)
PLGC, PO Box278, Dresd>~ 14441-0278. too-7753.
UCCUGC, 333Argrl1re Dr., 14217·2417. fi/7-0459.
HAMPTON BAYS (516)
Good Shepherd AmerC8n Ca1hofic Church, P.O. 8()( 725, #10 Failh
Dr., 11946. 723-2012
NEW YORK CITY AREA
Bronx(71S)
St AMS Clurch, 295 SI. Am's Ave., 10454. 585-6325.
Broo~yn(71S)
~Z'~'ifn: R~~~3c.:,l!fi\~f~89-3447 Moniho/ we<sh~
First Unitarian Church, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Concerns Commitlee,
:ll MlrYc.o Pt., 112l1. 814-.5400
Longlslard(516) .
:.1\~.AIOS Care, Inc., PO Ba,: 2859, Hunting1on Sin., 11746.
Crde ol More l.ig11. Box 203, Brookhawo, 1 H19-0m ~
gr,J;,.PO Bax 48, East Meao:,,v, 11554. 781-6225. Lesbian/gay
Gay & Lesbian Unitarian UnM>raalisls, do UUF ol SIOOf Brook, PO
::iw;:~~h~ SheplerdChurch, PO Box
43(;, Central Isl~. 11722. m-0348. Rev. Msg. Robert J. Allman,
pasla.
Mannatt...W..,Yori(Clty•s(212)
Axios: Eastern & Orthocb< Christiars, PO'BoxJ56, VITTag, Sin., :::/69·6211. SooondFriday, Jl).m .. GanmunilyCenler, 208W.
BlessedVirginMaryMission, 123E.15St, 1C003.2'28-0698.Sun.,
1:1fl).m.
Ctristian Sderoe Grcx.p, rJo444 :i"dAve., #4, 10016. 532-8379.
Dig,ily, PO Box 10280ld Cl'elsea Slrt, 10011. 818-1309. PLIJ: Ouf
lool<.
~~ity,:,:' :'
1
~e~o~~t· ~:.in~oo;1; Frank Rocco.
rockl¥'@a~.com.
Evangelicao Coro,rned 311 E. 72nd St, #IG c/o Dr. RaiJh B~ir,
10021. 517·3171. PLIJ: ROCO'c\ Revilw
Gay &Lesbian Quakers, 15 Rulhertord Pl., 1CXXXl-3971. 475-0195,
979-0170.
Gay, Lesbian & Affirming Oiscpes Alliance, c/oAllen Harris, 1453A
Lexitg'OOAIO., 10128-2500.200-3l19.
tnlegilylNewYO!I<, PO Box 'l.roSf, 10011. 691-7181. Episcqllliars;
Wed,6:~ .m.
Judson MemOOB.I Church, 55 Washing1oo Scμire So., 10012 477·
0351. Peter Laarman, pastor. A Welcoming and Affirming American
Baplol ooogegalion.
L85tian andG,1/CommunityServbes Center, Inc., 2()3 W. 13th SI.,
10011. 62).7310. PLIJ: Center Stage, CenllrVcice.
Madson Avenue ~list Church, 30East31stSl, 10016. 685-1377.
Michael B. Easter1ing, pastor. A Welootning and Affirming American
Baptist cong~lion.
Maranatha: Rrversiders for lesbian/Gay Concerns, c/o Riversioo
Clurch, 490 RM>raicll Dr., 10027. 222-f,fJOO.
MCC, 208W. 131hSt, 10011. 242·1212 Suriday, 11l3.m. al 208W. 0 13Mt, 7p.m. al 135 w. 4th St
PLGC, 740WestEndAw., 10025. 868-3580.
Park Avenue Chrislian Churcti (DisciJ!es ol Chrol), I010Parl<Ave.
at851h SI., 100?.8. 288-3246.A vbrant creatr.l'?, andcfversecorge- ro~ "'J:Z~ ~-e~:~rii~~~ t;~~288-324a
Fo.rrthFriday, 7p.m. .
Aive!D Church, 490 Riversid:l Dr., 10027. 222-5900. James Fort>~~
-stor. Welcoming & Attinning (ABC) arxJ Open & Atr,ming
Rul!)'lrs Pres11{1erian Churcit, 236 W. 73rd St, 10023. 877-8227.
SLl1day, 11a.m. f/ae Lg,! ctirrch
Sevenlh-Day Advenlist Kinshp International. PO Box 20fil5, 10025.
(718)662-1656.
Templeo!Mracuous Perceptbn, 237W. 1oost, 10025. 222-2874.
UCCUGC, cJo Craig Hoffman, 1453A Lexington Ave., 10128. 289·
3)16
Urily Felbws~ Church, PO Box 2708 1 ClXl8-2708 (718)636-5846.
Waslingcn S(J.lare u~. 135 W. 4th st., 10012 m-'2f28.
Wesl Pari( Pre!llyterian Chrrc!\ 165 w. 86thS1., 10024. 362·4al0.
Q,-is(718)
?1~~:~~ ~:1~~r:3~~~:ox 4154, College Point,
Unitarian Universalist Church, Lesb!an, Bisexual & Gay Concerns
Ccmmittee, 147-54AshAve., Flusling, 11355. 353-3960.
Westchester (914)
lnlegrily, PO Bax 2038, While Plains, 1tffl2-2038. 949-«367. PLIJ:
The Grapevill8. .
NIAGARA FALLS (716)
Oneness Apostolic Gospel Church, 1646 Niagara Ave., 14305. 234-
7044. Bro C. RolJerts, μ,stor.
PLATTSBURGH (518)
SI. Marys EcumenKl'!I Calhoic Cht.rcit, POBox 1fil, Chazy, 12921.
493-3272 (vcice and FAX), Rev. Fr. Michael R. Frost.
Resource Guide
Open Arms MCC, 302 Gocxinan St, N., Ste. 10, 14607·1153. 271·,
8478.
PLGC, rio Certer, 111 Mibum SI., 14607-291& 271-7649.
SYRACUSE (315)
May Memorial Unitarian Universalists for Le~an & Gay Concerns,
38Xl E. Geressee St, 13214. 424-7628. ~:Yi~~: g~u:e,~ :e~~e!~~~55c 1~i2.RA1;~0~ :
Shaoo Frarcis Beoecict pasi:lrs.
UTICA(315)
it~A~ ~:2· 1= 738-0599
itT~Aroo8r31~· 11793. 781-5942.
St Anlhony ol Padua Ecumenical Calh~o Churcit, 539-«323. Fr.
Tom Sterner.
North Carolina
ASHEVILLE (704)
GanmurilyConoocloos, PO Box 18'.ll8, 28814. 258-3260. Newspaper
for lhe Southern Awalachian ga~sbian cornmooity.
MCC, PO Box 2359, 28832-ZlE!l. 259-3l55.
CHARLOTTE (704)
Cterlolte lnertailh NetHO!I< fer Gayfles!Jian E(!Jality, !ll45 Re<l'.lman
Rd, //205, :13212-1004. -· Gamen E. Plinl, oonlaClμ,raon.
Lutoorans COOcerned, PO Bax 9562. 28299. 334-2367. Pub: The
C!arioo
MCC, 4007 E. lndeper,daoo, BM!, lfl26, 28205-7375. 563-5810.
Metroina Sw!cli:oard, PO Box 11144, 28220. 535-6277.
N .. Life MX, PO Box 2214'.l4, 28222. 343-9070.
GREENSBORO (910) ~=~~!~~,J~=~:r.6:_~-~~,Communion served at all services. ELGA
~~~~u~~:n::of~:~:.~~~: =~~~~-~ Wed., 7:Xp.m. Rev. Christine Oscar, pastor.
HK:KORY (704)
t.-0::, do Unitarian Church, 100 1111 Ave., NW, a3001. 324-196).
r:!~iE,e~~ tL,.,. PO Box fil61, Rale\jt. 27650. 650-
938Q
Dgnily, PO 80< 51129, Dumam, 27717-1129. 493-8269.
;~
71-~~urch ol lhe Gocd Shlplerd, PO 80< 200?4, ~ig\ =ns Coro,med, PO Box 665, Ape~ 27532. 387-0824. Meeis it
PFLAG Tr.iangle Chapter, P.O. Box 10644, Raoigt, 27005-0044.
Rafe\jt: ®9325. Chapel Hill: 929-0192
Pullen fkmooal Baplist Church, 1801 Hilsborough SI., Raleig\
27805. 8.!&0897. M. Mahan Siler, Jr., pasb".
Aele\jt Relgous NelwO!I< for Gay and Lesbian E(!Jalily, PO Box
f,961, 27®5861. 781-2525.
St Joh~s MCC., PO Box 5826, Raeigt, 27650. 834-2611. Suriday,
1ta.m., 7:1fl).m., 805Ge,,.,,.,o;Ave.
TriangEI lesbian & Gay Concerns, do Unitarian Fello.Yship, 3313
Wade Ave., Rare;gt, 27007. 834-3332.
WILMINGTON (910)
~:hwo.r?r:\1:u~~:~~:bia~ :x:Syorrt~ 675-9222
St. Jude's MCC, 4326 Market SI., Ste. 170, 28403. Sanctuary: &J7
Castle St 76'1·5833.
WINSTON-SALEM (910)
Lesbian & Gay Concerns Task Fbrce, Unitaran Universa!ist Fe!lows~
2B73 Rcmhocd Rd, 27100. 723-7633.
Pieanonl Relgous NelwO!I< lor Gay and Lesoon E(!Jalily. PO Box
15104, 27113-0104. (919)7fiHl:ll1.
Ohio
AKRON(330)
MCC, 1215 Kenn-ae BM!. 44314. 745-5157. PLIJ: Beacon ol Ligtl.
Cascade Community Church, 1100'1196 Inman SI., 4«306. 773-
5298. Srmay, 2().m. PLIJ: Gascade News~tter.
Lutherans COOcemed PO Box 67114, Cuyahoga Falls, 44222. 92&
0041.
ATHENS (614)
UCCI.JGC, 18 N. Colle9:l SI., 45701. 593-7301. Also United Campus
Minis!JY a~ Ohio University, an affirming place for lesbigay students.
JanGres1rgir, cirec!or.
~~~~~~mlowship Church, PO Box 35604, 44735-5604. 376-
87:>S
CINCINNATI (513)
Dig,ily, PO Box 91D, 45202 (rol)581-9014.
lnteg,ly, 4905Cha~t Dr., #11, 45217-1445. 242-7297.
~~~'.:1~~~/Jr~~t=hA~~3
0~~:~i~t:e~ .a~~1~:
~e~~'t'~tmlisterSI., 45219. 241-8'216. P\b: Visims.
CLEVELAND (440)
A Common Bond. POBox9185.1, 44101.Je,hwah's Witnesses.
Cl'<Jrch of the Redlemer Urited Mellxxist 2420 So. Taylor Rd., Covetand
Hts., 44118. 932.:,m;, A Recoo:ilirg CongregalKlO
Dgiily, PO 80< 91697, 44101. 531-44ro.
Emmanuel MCC, 10034 LOJain Ave., 44111-5429. 651-0129. Sunday,
1Q45am. Plil: GooJ Nev.s
PLGC, 841 Englm>oc\ 44121. 382-0507.
COLUMBUS (614)
Chrisl Unilld Evang,IKl'll Ch•,rch, PO Box 141264, 43214. 297-6317.
Evangeli:als Cooce,ood PO Bo< 300491, 43236. 235-GA YS.
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 93 W. Weisheimer, 43214. 267•
4946 Surday, 11,.m.
Frimds !or Lesbian & GayConoorns (Quakers), 488-2096
Gay Men's Si.w:>rt Gr<X4), c/o Newman Center, 64 w. Lane Ave.,
43201. 291""67,.
MCC, PO Box 100l9, 43201-0509. 294-3026. 1253 N. Hgt SI. Su~
day, 10:31l3.m. PLIJ: The Beacon News
Spirit of the Rivers Community Church, PO Box 1033.3, 43201. 486-
lffl . ·
SilnEwal Unm Repc,ls, Box 10814, 43201·7814. 299.7754_
UCCUGC, 294-9970, 488-2096
DAYTDN(937)
POUGHKEEPSIE (914) .
Dgnilynnlegrily, PO Box 358, L.agangevile, 12540-0356. 724-3209.
ROCHESTER (716)
Commu~lyGospelChurch, PO Box 1634, 45401. 252-8655. S~ril
l1lted, Christ centered. Meets Thurs., Sp.m., Sun. lOa.m. al 546
j Xeria Ave., DaytcnSamuel Kader, pasta. ·
Pfcity,~~S:0~~7.-~40311630 E 51h SI. Sun .. Community Christian Fello.Yship, PO Box 68005, 14618. 234-9776.
A place ol pra,yer, praise and Bi:>le sttrlj for gay and !esbi.an Evan-
8'~n~);~i'.i7 S. Fltzhajt St , 1it614. 352-2170.
Lake Avenue Baptist Church, 57 Ambrose St., 14608. 458-5765.
Peter Carman, pastor. A Wei:::oming and Artirming American Baptist
coogregalion.
The EmptyCbset, 179 Atlantic Ave., 14607·1255. New Yak State's
oldest gi;y/lesbian newspaper.
1o:3lam.
GRANVILLE (614)
Firs! Bapt~t Church, 115 W. Broact.vay, 43023-1179. 587-0336.
George WHliamsoo, Jr., pastor. A Wek:oming and Affirming Ameri•
can Baplisl Congegalloo.
LIMA (419)
Most Holy Redeemer Ecumenical Catholic Church, 'Zl.8-7344. Fr. ,
Jimmy Tabler.
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Hoty~ ri~ityC ommunitCy hurch1, 55.9t. 4.aClso3n8,1 047. 26-9443.
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ARLINGTO(N81 7)
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451-2329.
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7:30.;m> .
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(817)656-0056.
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528-491a
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351-1901.
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MOC9, 82!M1 oo~na7, 99255. 91-4155S.l X.I. 6p.m.W, ed,7 p.m.
HOUSTO(N7 13)
CommunitGy ospel Church,5 01E . 18tha t Cotum~a8. 80-9235.
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Dawno f FaithM CC,1 0319S aga)OfDli;r .,n (J"j9-2f11979. 1-6700.
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First_ UnitariaUnn iversaliCsth urchG, ay/Lesbi,Tana skF ome,5 2)()
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MIDLAND(9 15)
HolyT rinityc ommunityC hurch1, 007S . Main,7 9701.5 70-4822.
RevG. lem E. Hammetpt,a stor.
SANA NTONIO(2 10)
MCC1, 136W .W ooda111718,2 017..3 4-004a
RM>rCi1yLNi1gChu2rc!:he,H dord,7 82127 34-037.7.
TYLER(903)
St. GabrieCl ommunitCyh urch1, 3904CountyR1d9. 3, 757035. 81-
6923.P astoDr oonaA . Can-.,,ell.
WACO(817)
MCCP, O BoxZl'.J437,6 7127 52-5331.
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Di:lnity3. QueensbuRryd .,0 5400-5752.
MCCP, OB ox2 0100, 54078. 99-4442.
Unitarian Universalists !or Gay& LesbianC oncern, s152P earSl 1.,
C64016. 82.-5630.
MONTPELIE(R8 02)
lntegty,r JoC IYisEt psccpaCl hLrc,h 64 StateS L,0 5€02-2333.
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ALEXANDR(I7A0 3)
Affrimation(M a"monsP).O B ox1 93342, 232').933842. 8-3006.
St. CyrirsE asternC IYistiaFne !loHshp0,0 38R K;hmooHdW .J, #301.
2ZD3.3 29-7896B.y zantioCo hristiacno mmooity.
ARLINGTO(N70 3)
Dgiity, PO Bo<1 00372, 22109. 12-1682.
FALLSC HURCH(7 03)
Affirmatio(nW .«mornP),O B ox1 93342, 2320-933B43. 006.
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Campus ChristianC ommuni,t y1213D andridgeS t., 22401 373-
9255.
NORFOLK(757)
Dgiity,P O8 0<4 34,2 35016. 15-5337.
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BlueR ~ LambdlP ressP, O8 (1>(2 37.2 4002.8 90-3184
Lesbian& GayC atholics& EpisccpalianPs,O Box4 163,2 <1015.
7.74«68.
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A« GodsC hilcienC ommunitCy hurch4, 85S . lrKEpendencBelv d,
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Foundationasl StoneM inis1rie1s4, 9N elsonD r. • 231852. 29-0832.
Te achirgs, eminarsre, treatsr,e vivals.
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Affirmatio(nM ormonsP),O Box2 3223,9 81028 20-5729P. ub:T he
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CompanisM, iSsioWn orkersfo r Seattle1, 111H arvardA ve.,9 8122.
=:J~il.f~W'er~~A, 531113lhAve . S.
763•2469. Sun., 7p.m. Bp. Paul David C. Strong, pastor.
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UCCUGC;31718thAvEe.1 . 4,9 8112-513'52Z !-'31Zl.
Uritarianle sbians& Gays,6 5563 5thA ve.N E,9 81154. 83-0345.
UniversityB aptistC hurch4, 554 12th Ave.,S E, 981056. 32-5188.
AnneH all,a ssociatep asto.r A Welcoming & AffirmingA merican
BaptisCt ongeg1aion.
SPOKAN(E5 m) .
Affirmation(U nitedM ethoosts)3, N. 9th St.. Cheney9, 9C042. 99·
2500.
Emmanua~l. PO Box7 69,9 92108. 38-008.5 Sun.,f 0:30a.rn.,
7p.ma. t'JJ7W.4 thA ve.
Unita,iaCn hurch3,? 1W . 8th,9 92:146.2 4-4002.
TACOMA(2 06)
H1looeC omm1J1ityCh\J2r5c0h8,S . Jllh St.,9 84094. 75-ZJW
MCC2, 150S. CushmaAnl <., 98405-34382. 72-2382
VANCOUVE(R20 6)
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FirstB aptisCt htrch,5 18N orthF rankliAn ve.• 537052. 33-1880A.l an
Newtona, ssooia)ep astor.A Welcominga nd AffirmingA merican
Baptisct ongegalioo.
lntegity/Diglity, PO Box 730, 5.17018. 36-88861. 001U niversity
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D\)nityP, O8 0<! ll7, 53201.4 44-717.7.
Lu1ooraCnso ocerredP. OB ox1 6765. 3201-167465. 1-9663.
!vlAPS piilua.C! areP, O Box9 2505,5 3202.2 73-1991.
MCCP, OB ox1 4215, 3201-142313. 2-9995.
St. CamillusH IV/AIDSM inis1ry1,0 f01W . Wisconisn Ave.,5 3226.
2o9-4664 .
UnitedH IVS erii:es,1 0100W . B!uemounRdd ,. 532262. 59-4610.
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Gay oonner not weloome at chUICh hosting consecration
By Ron Goldwyn
The Philadelphia Daily News
PHILADELPHIA · A dispute over
displaying the banner of a gay·
lesbian Episcopalian group has the
pastor of a North Philadelphia meg·
achurch and leaders of the Episcopal
diocese regretting they ever crossed
paths.
The incident left Episcopal leaders
angry enough to say they probably
·would not have rented Deliverance
Evangelistic Church for the consecra•
lion of their newly elected bishop on
Feb. 22 if they'd known gays and les•
bians were unwelcome.
The Rev. Benjamin Smith, who con·
fiscated the banner of the gay group,
Integrity /Philadelphia, said that if
he had known about Episcopalian
beliefs, he "absolutely" would have
voided the rental to "people who
embrace . people who are the anti•
Christ." •
"We were not aware of the fact they
were having some kind of gay celebration,
that gay people were
involved in their service, " Smith
said. "I did not know they embraced
gays as believers. I thought it was a
regular Christian Christ-honoring
service. 11
Deliverance is nondenominational,
often rented or offered free for
revivals and city-suburban fellowship
events, said Smith. The pre•
dominantly African-American church
has about 6,500 members and about
4,000 worshipers each Sunday in its
5, 100-seat sanctuary .
Paul. Ryker, convener of the Integrity
chapter, planned to carry the
Appeals court rejects benefits
claim by gay Rutgers f acuity
TRENTON, N.J. · A state appeals
court unanimously rejected a claim by
gay staff members at Rutgers University
that their health benefits
should cover their domestic partners.
Two of the three judges said March
12 they found the ruling distasteful,
but the panel said the state 's anti·
discrimination law does not apply to
employee benefit plans, including
those run by the stale or by local gov·
emments.
One of the judges suggested the law
should be changed.
The case was brnught by a Rutgers
dean and four current or former professors,
who are covered by the State
Health Benefits Plan.
Their lawyers argued that the refusal
of Rutgers and the state to cover
the employees' gay partners violated
dis crimination laws, a 1991 executive
order banning discrimination against
gays and lesbians, and the state Con·
stitution's requirement of equ .al treatment.
They argued that it was improper to
give different · levels of compensa•
tic,n, including benefits, to people
who are married and to people who
are not. The staffers had longtime
relationships with their partners
ranging from 14 to 21 years, according
to the court opinion.
One of the plaintiffs, James D.
Anderson, associate dean in the
School of Communicallon, Informa·
tion and Library Studies, said he and
his partner have been together 25
years. For him, the denial of benefits
costs him roughly $4,500 annually,
but "means my relationship is den·
igrated."
Anderson, who is also an official of
Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay
Concerns, predicted that · the ruling
would be appealed to the (state)
Supreme Court.
Lawyers for the faculty members
said unmarried heterosexual couples
_!:an·get a higher level -of comp.ensa•
lion by getting married, but that gay
men and lesbian women are denied
access to this remedy .
Appeals Judge Thomas Shebeli
wrote the state benefits plan was set
up in 1961 when "the meaning of the
term 'spouse' was so clear that Legis•
lative intent .is found by merely reading
the plain languag e of the act."
"We recognize that in recent years,
in a variety of contexts, our courts
have considered the changing notions
of 'family' when deciding whether
cohabitants, both heterosexual and
homosexual, should be treated as
dependents or family," Shebeli
wrote.
"However, in dealing with sta(,4·
tory and contract interpretation, we
have not been disposed to expanding
plain language to fit more contempo·
rary views of family and intimate
relationships," the judge wrote.
Shebeli said the marriage require·
ment in the benefits plan does not con·
stitute discrimination against gay
couples because there are others who
cannot get married or who are
excluded from benefits.
"Cousin s, parents, ·children over 23
years of age, siblings, or anyone
related too closely by blood, including
those people legally married to
another, cannot qualify for benefits
because of the marriage requirement,
SEE INSURANCE, Page 28
banner among 50 churches, schools
and other groups in an opening processional.
Ryker got his banner back after the
service, which he and other Integrity
members attended . In fact, the issue
was unknown to about 4,000 worship· ·
ers gathered for the emotional two-hour
rite elevating the Rev. Charles
E. Bennison Jr. lo the title of bishop
coadjutor of · the Pennsylvania
Diocese .
Bennison, 53, will not assume the top
post for about a year. Bishop Allen L.
Bartletf Jr., leader of the diocese of
Pennsylvania • 162 congregations and
65,000 members in the city and four
surrounding counties • plans to retire
in 1998.
Bennison favors ordaining gay and
lesbian priests and blessing same--sex
unions, supports the ordination of
women and advocates a stronger
church presence in the inner city and
minority communities. He was a pro•
fessor at Episcopal Divinity School,
Cambridge, Mass., before "wi-nnfng
election as Philadelphia's bishop in
November over four other candidates.
"We had .no idea it was an issue for
them," Bennison said. "Gay and lesbian
people are such a part of our life,
it was a nonissue from our perspec•
tive. Perhaps for them it was
unthinkable . .. we would have gays
and lesbians publicly present."
The flap began long before most
worshipers reached Deliverance.
Smith said he spotted the banner •
it reads, "Integrity /Philadelphia,
Gay and Lesbian Episcopalians and
its friends" · Friday night · among
others in the lobby. He said he
ordered it put away, but never came
lo the church al all Saturday,
· although he was listed as a welcom•
ing speaker.
Ryker said that when he arriveJ
Saturday, he could not find the ban•
ner. He was told by a pastor that the
banner was "locked away" and wot. .
be returned after the service.
Aiaooma Episcoμilians omit sexu:--·
ality in fonnal {X)Sition on rnaniag~
BIRMINGHAM, Ala . (AP) - The continue to dialogtte:» "'·' .
Episcopal Diocese of Alabama failed After long debate, the p.hras¢.:
to reach a conclusion about its posi· "sexua l intimacy finds its fuU~j
lion on homosexuality following a expression in holy matrimony "'·•~ ;
long debate over the marriage plank deleted from the platform·. . · ,
of the church platform. During the debate, such substitute
The platform that was eventually terms as "genital sexual intimacy"
adopted affirms the church's belief and "intercourse" were suggested and
in the sanctity of marriage but makes voted down before the whole phrase
no mention of sexuality. Several was finally dropped.
diocese members said the marriage The final statement quoted the
debate was an effort to clarify the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer's
church's position on homosexuality. •·-. descriptions of the holiness of mar•
"It was weakened a bit," said the riage; then .affirmed "the sanctity of
Rev. Coleman Tyler, rector of Christ holy matrimony as a faithful, monog·
the Redeemer Episcopal Church in amous marriage between a man and a
Montgomery, which submiUed the woman."
original resolution. "Any mention of Leaders of Christ the Redeemer
sexuality was taken out." Church said the resolution affirming
T 11e diocese, which .r!!presents the sanctity of marriage wasn't
30,000 members in 89 churches, con· intended as criticism of homosexuali·
eluded its three--day convention Feb. ty. ·
15 at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in "It's an attempt to hold up
Birmingham. marriage," said Joel Grigg, a member
"We · are in the culture wars, the of Christ the Redeemer .. "It's not
moral wars being fought in this 'anti-' anything."
country," said the Rev. Francis X. In another resolution, the diocese
Walter. He said it was good to dis• voted . without opposition to _ affirm _
cuss the issue .but warned the church God's love and care for people with
risked inflicting "pain and sorrow" on KIV and AIDS. The measure ·
gays and lesbians . affirmed · HIV <1nd AIDS patients'
"It was a debate which reflects the right to the sacraments of the _ church
lack of clarity within the church on and to a Christian burial.
homosexuality," said Bishop Robert Miller said he was .glad to see the
0. Miller, who presided over the diocese take a stance that would pre·
meeting. "There are people on both dude churches from discriminating
sides of the issue and they need to against those with AIDS: ··
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LONDON (AP) - A senior clergyman
at St. Paul's Cathedral said Feb. 12
he would not accept the priesthood of
the first woman appointed to the
cathedral staff .
A majority of the cathedral chapter
on Feb. 11 approved the selection of
the Rev. Lucy Winkett, 28, as one of
three rnirtor canons, effective in September.
Dr. John Moses, dean of the famous
cathedral, said she was the best candidate
for the job. It involves much
organization of daily worship and
responsibility for the choirs.
"We are not in the business of gender
politics at St. Paul's," he said. "We
will always seek the best candidate
for any positiort ." .
But Canon John Halliburton, cathedral
chancellor, opposes ordination of
women and says he will not attertd
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"I don't believe her to be a priest,"
he said.
He stressed it was not a personal
vendetta and he would not leave
either the cathedral or the church.
"This issue does divide the church
at the very center but I shall try to
cooperate as well as my beliefs allow
me to," he said.
"This is not a major row," Dean
Moses said. "It is a difference of opinion
that we will live with, just as the
Church of England is living with it.
"The Church of England is committed
to two integrities - those who
believe in the ordination of women
and those who don't," he said . "John
Halliburton is a senior and greatly
respected member of chapter in whom
I have complete confidence."
Despite opposition from traditionalist
sectors of the Anglican clergy,
the Church of England approved
ordination of women in 1992 and made
clear it accepted .the legitimacy of
the differing views.
Winkett, .who has been ordained a
priest for six months, is curate in the
poor east London borough of tittle
Ilford.
"We ·are very sad to lqse her but our
loss · is St. Paul's Cathedral's gain,"
said Canon John Whitwell, rector of
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. State new~r defends
Mugabe's anti-gay crusade
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - A statecontrolled
newspaper defended President
Robert Mugabe's outspoken crusade
against homosexuality despite
new evidence that former President
Canaan Banana, a Mugabe ally,
raped a male police aide.
The mass circulation daily Herald
scoffed at allegations the government
denounced gays while at the same
time protecting them in the ruling
party hierarchy.
"Society w.ill continue to condemn
homosexuality. There is no contradiction
whatsoever," the newspaper
said, breaking the government's
silence on the case.
The Herald is a government mouthpiece
and its comments were seen as
the first official response to testimony
accepted by the High Court in
Harare of Banana's predatory homosexuality.
Mugabe, who has described homosexuals
as "lower than pigs and
dogs," has not reacted.
On Feb. 24, Judge David Bartlett
sentenced police inspector Jefta Dube,
36, to ten years in jail for shooting to
death a colleague he said taunted
him about homosexual acts committed
while working in . Banana's residence
from 1983 to 1986.
The court ruled evidence of homosexual
rape and three years of sexual
abuse by Banana left Dube with a
stress-related mental illness. It
imposed a reduced sentence because of
his "diminished responsibility" in
the killing of Constable Patrick
Mashire in 1995.
Banana was non-executive president
of Zimbabwe from independence in
1980 until 1987, and has been a major
figure in Mugabe's ruling party.
The Herald said in the aftermath
of. the case that government leaders
were now being criticized for condemning
homosexuality.
No article on marriage for church
,order of future Dutch church,
committee recommends
GENEVA - The church order of the
future United Protestant Church of
The Netherlands should not have an
article on marriage, according to the
recommendation of a special committee
.
The three Dutch churches working
toward unity - two Reformed and one
Lutheran - are deeply divided about
the appearance of an article on marriage,
reported the News Exchange
service of the Reformed Ecumenical
Council.
The churches involved in the
"Sa_men op Weg" (Together On The
Way) process are the two main
Reformed churches in the Netherlands
and the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in the Kingdom of the
Netherlands (ELKN).
The three churches had set up the
broad-based committee to study marriage
and other relationship forms.
The committee has been studying the
matter for about six months . The committee's
report was debated _in Nov.
1996 at a meeting of the combined
synod of the "Samen op Weg" churches.
The synod, like the churches, was
divided on the issue.
Despite objections, the synod provisionally
accepted the report. Final
adoption of the new church order will
take place only after review by
regional and local church gatherings.
The committee reflecte _d the two
main _ lines of thinking in the churches.
The majority of the committee members
supported the view that mar·
riage has since antiqu·ity been a societal
concern and riot ecclesiastical.
The church adds nothing to the
validity of marriage. The . church
may celebrate the formation of a
marriage. As such, its main connection
to marriage is liturgical.
The church also supports other relationships,
according to the majority
line of thinking in the committee.
The apostle Paul argued for celibacy,
and the church has supported celibate
community life. Earlier in history,
economic and family connections
played a greater role in marriage.
Today the emphasis lies on the personal
choices and the relationship of
the. couple. This emphasis on the
affective aspect of marriage also
applie s to other relationships, such
as gay and lesbian relationships,
which could be recognized within the
church as "life commitments."
The second line of thought, supported
by minority in the committee,
also starts out with the idea that
marriage is a public concern. Marriage
is a God-intended order for
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Delegatiosene ksa idf org ayH olOCavUicStti ms
By Alexander G. Higgins
Associated Press Writer
GENEY A (AP) - A gay delegation
met with . Swiss officials Feb. 27 to
urge that gays receive a fair share of
a new $71 million humanitarian fund
for needy Holocaust victims.
Gays and lesbians were among those
groups - including Jews, gypsies, Slavs
and communists - targeted by the
Nazis for concentration camps and
extermination.
The meeting in the Swiss capital of
Bern came a day after the Swiss government
formally founded the fund.
The gay organization .Pink Cross
argued that money should aid any
Holocaust victim, regardless of race
or religion, or political or sexual oris
entation.
"We had the feeling that we were
met with open ears," said Pink Cross
spokesman Rolf Gerber. He said the
meeting with the government's task
force on Holocaust victims was "very
open and productive ."
Pink Cross will work to put needy
gay Holocaust victims in touch with
the fund's administrators, Gerber
said. Meanwhile, government officials
said it would take several
weeks to ready the account so that
the first payments can be made.
Sceneso f turmoila t Gennan syncxml eeting
Even as the humanitarian fund is
be(ng·set .up, researchers are uncovering
more details both on those who
died in the war and the perpetrators
- and their .links to neutral Switzer-
1 and.
Expert investigators heard earlier
that there is evidence that a top official
of a major German bank dealt
extensively on the black market -
from a base in a posh Zurich hotel - in
jewels, bank notes and gold coins
looted by the Nazis.
And a 146-page report prepared by
Swiss historians for investigators
documents cases of relatives running
into a wall in trying to claim their
inheritance from assets in Switzerland.
Under heavy international pressure,
Switzerland is undertaking a thorough
review of its wartime role to see
whether compensation should be
paid to Holocaust victims or their
heirs for any Swiss wrongs. Jewish
organizations claim that Swiss banks
hold up to $7 billion in assets and
interest owed Holocaust victims.
So far only the largest Swiss banks
have donated money to the fund, but
insurance companies and other firms
as well as the Swiss government may
give later.
Bishopsv etos yncxsl' r esolutioonn non-marit{aml tnerships
GENEY A - Tw_o of the three bishops
of the North Elbian Evangelical
Lutheran Church have again vetoed
a synod resolution that favored recog"
nition of non-marital partnerships as
acceptable for Christians. The veto
decision was based on the bishops'
conviction that the recent resolution
is not compatible with the Lutheran
confession. The veto effectively suspends
the synod's resolution.
Sharp differences of opinion concerning
life-long relationships have
resulted in one of the most difficult
disputes in the 20-year history of the
North Elbian church. There were
scenes of turmoil during the synod's
Feb. 6-8 meeting in Rendsburg, some
synod members leaving the plenary
hall with tears in . their eyes, before
the synod approved a compromise
resolution.
While same-sex and marriage-like
partnerships may not be blessed, the
people who live in such relationships
"in an ethically responsible way"
may receive a blessing, according to
the Feb. 8 resolution. The resolution,
based on a proposal from the church
leadership, was approved by 77 votes
for, 7 against and 11 abstentions.
The synod had earlier voted in
favor of recognizing committed and
long-term marriage-like partnerships
as possible relationships for
Christians. If the relationship meets
the requirements of "a dependable,
loving partnership and the dignity of
the individual; this accords with the
will of God," the synod resolved by 60
votes to 46 in the Feb. 7 vote.
The Feb:· 7 resolution was similar to
a previous synod resolution that the
two .bishops - Schleswig bishop Hans
Christian Knuth and Luebeck bishop
Karl Ludwig Kohlwage - had vetoed
in March 1996.
During the latest synod meeting,
Kohlwage repeatedly stated the
wish that the synod use .the formula-
DUTCH CHURCH,
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society in the creation. Men and
women are given to each other for
holy living, as God intended. Marriage
_protects sexuality and provides
a place for children of the next generation.
According to this view, the
church has a liturgical connection,
which follows the public closure of
the marriage.
The CommTttee recognized that the
churches are deeply divided on this
matter. While a majority in the
churches favors the right to gay relations
in love and faithfulness, this
does not equate same-sex relations
with marriage, the committee said.
In Nov. 1995, the synod of the
ELKN gave its approval to church
blessings of gay relationships. At the
time, the synod declared that "there
are no theological arguments against
blessing two people who are strongly
committed to one another, faithful
and dedicated." ·
The committee recommended that
the churches continue their discussions
about the biblical testimony on
these issues and that the new church
order give room for local options.
Thus, there should be no article on
marriage in the church order.
-Lutheran World lnformation
lion "model function of marriage"
instead of "particular significance of
marriage." However, he failed to
gain the backing of a majority of
synod members for his proposal. In
their veto, the bishops state that the
Lutheran confession requires the
emphasis being on the model function
of marriage.
■ The Lutheran confessiori
does not allow
non-marital partnerships
-to be regarded ...
on a par with
marriage. ■
The synod also resolved that pastors
may live with their partners in
parsonages of the North Elbian
church only if they are married to
each other . However, the North
Elbian dmrch is to call for a nationwide
ruling that will in future make
exceptions possible, the synod added.
Life in Lutheran parsonages in Germany
is regulated by the relevant
laws of the United Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Germany
(VELKD). Kohlwage, Knuth, Hamburg
bishop Maria Jepsen and synod
president Elisabeth Lingner dismissed
fears that the North Elbian
synod faces schism. However, there
are differences of opinion regarding
same-sex and marriage-like partnerships,
they acknowledged.
Following the synod meeting, the
YELKD published an expert opinion
that had been developed at the
request of the bishops' college of the
North Elbian church. The opinion
states that only marriage and the
family in their public character and
legal order represent the model for
Christian orientation regarding the
living together of men and women.
The expert opinion rejects the equal
status of various forms of life partnerships.
The Lutheran confession does
not allow non-marital partnerships
to be regarded as a model on a par
with marriage and family, says the
VELKD opinion. Marriage-like relationships
do, however, deserve
respect and protection in so far as the
commitments involved in the partnership
provide relief to the long-term
living together of people in difficult
times.·
Canadian church supports
gay rights
AN OFFICIAL BODY of the Christian
Reformed Churches in Canada,
the Canadian arm of the Grand Rapids,
Mich.-based Christian Reformed
Church, has provoked a firestorm of
controversy on both sides of the border
by telling the Canadian government
it supports legislation protecting
the civil rights of gays and lesbians
in regards fo housing, employment
and other services, ·
The church also suggested that legislation
somehow accommodate
same-sex partnerships, arguing that
"mutually supportive relationships
of a private ·and perhaps intimate
nature .other than those understood by
the familiar and historic terms" of
family and marriagl!_ "should be
given a wholly new designation."
- Religion News Service
PAGE 19 • SECOND STONE• MARCH/APRIL, 1997
Looking forward to the new millennium
Once preparedto die,
couplele arntso livea gain
By Patricia Guthrie
The Albuquerque Tribune
THEY CASHED IN their life
insurance pohcies, leased a red-hot
Cadillac El Dorado, and racked up
50,000 miles hitting the road from
Florida to Seattle.
For their back yard, they bought a
hot tub that's so roomy it's dubbed an
Olympic-size pool by friends.
For their front yard, they fashioned
a tiny fountain out of rocks, one of
many landscaping projects that have
sprung up around their home in the
past two years.
Like a married couple of 50 years
savoring well-earned retirement,
they made each day count.
But they were young ... and dying of
AIDS. _
"Every . vacation we took, we
thought, 'This will be our last
vacation,"' says John McRae, 44, sitting
across from longtime partner
Michael Justice, 36.
"We spent all that money because
we thought we better hurry and take
advantage of it. Everything we did
was based on the fact that lime was
very short."
AIDS alive and making them
healthier.
"In December 1991, we were told we
had six months to live. It's been our
last Christmas for a long time,"
McRae says.
"Now ·we both talk about the year
2000, which is something we never
did before. I feel fairly confident I'll
see the new millennium."
But with this twist in the deadly
disease comes a new set of uncertainties.
Like other AIDS patients
experiencing a surge of renewal,
McRae and Justice wrestle with these
questions daily:
Should our focus switch from preparing
wills and making funeral
arrangements to the everyday worries
of life? Should we go back to fulltime
work if our health and energy
return? What if we fall ill again -
will we lose disability payments?
What about 'those credit cards we
maxed out, those debts we racked up
with the assu'mption death would
negate all past due bills? Will we
live long enough to benefit from the
ultimate hope - the cure? What if
new drugs help me and not my partner?
.
/
Instead, they've been given a
reprieve.
New combinations of drugs, or "drug
cocktails," are keeping people with
Maybe the best approach, Justice
says, is optimism mixed \'{ilh a
healthy dose of realism . After all,
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people with AIDS have had their
hopes dashed time and again with
"breakthrough" announcements.
"We're still living a death watch,"
Justice says. "Only now, it's more like
Russian roulette ."
One day a week, McRae and Justice
measure out -their new lease on life. It
comes in the form of a week's worth of
· pills - hundreds of square and circular
capsules and tablets, white and green
and pastel.
Each man follows a regimen of 15 to
19 prescriptions. Many of those prescriptions
require multiple doses -
adding up to 50 pills a day. ·
Some have to be taken on empty stomachs.
Others, two hours after a
meal. Still others with fatty foods
only. Some pills are refrigerated,
others kept dry on kitchen shelves
overflowing with plasL: bottles.
"It's a p~t-time job just lo keep up
with the medicine," Justice says.
"The doses are really crazy.
Sometimes we have to fast to take
these pills, then eat, .take those
pills, then fast again. There'.d be no
way you could do this on a regular
work schedule."
"I just spent the last two hours sorting
out my week's supply," McRae
says. "You have to be your pharmacist,
your own doctor to keep track of
it all."
The two have been on protease
inhibitors for about a year with
dramatically different results.
McRae - once much sicker than Justice
-· is now better . Justice has tried
all the protease inhibitors available
with little change. Either his body .
builds up resistance too fast or he
stops taking the drugs when the side
effects become too nasty.
Other drugs, called antivirals, must
also be taken with protease inhibitors
to help slow down the development
of resistance. And if a. patient is
fighting the common ailments of
AIDS - such as pneumonia and tuberculosis
- more medicine is needed.
All of this . adds up to a balancing
act of prescriptions even doctors·
admit is daunting and expensive -
prohibitive for patients without the
money and discipline to follow the
regimen.
Justice · and McRae estimate their
prescriptions cost between $6,000 and
$8,000 a month, which is covered by
private health insurance.
In these expensive, intricate combinations
may lurk life, and that's
enough, they say, to try any and all
new drugs.
"I've had patients gone from feeling
like they've had a fatal illness to
feeling like here's some hope," says
Dr. Sarah E. Allen, who sees about 50
AIDS patients at the University of
New Mexico's infectious-disease dinic.
''They're sta rting to think, 'Well,
maybe I'll live after all.' And I'm
starting to think, 'Well, maybe this
person will live to see their kids
graduate from high school and not
just succumb in a steady decline."'
McRae and Justice don't know where
or when they contracted AIDS. Both
were healthy when they got together
in 1982. Back then, not much was
known about the illness, except its
outcome - death.
Justice remembers feeling doomed.
So, he says, the two just decided not
to deal with it.
They simply went on with their
lives. McRae was an art and photography
teacher at Los Lunas High
School. Justice was assistant store
manager at an Albuquerque departs
ment store. ·
Bui' as Christmas 1991 approached,
the busiest time of year in the retail
business, Justice found he couldn't
keep up. He had lost 15 pounds, suffered
night sw·eats and was constantly
tired.
Dec. 2, 1991: McRae and Justice were
told they had full-blown AIDS. Both
were told they had six months to
live .
"It was scary. We had always kept
our own positivism," McRae says.
"But by then we had seen so many
friends go so very quickly. They'd be
totally healthy one day, and then
sick, and , then dead."
They kept working as best ·they
could, using up sick days and extended
leaves until 1993. Then they decided
their jobs were too public - they were
being exposed to all sorts of colds and
flu.
McRae took a medical retirement
from the teaching post he held for 17
years; Justice received long-term disability
afteF eight years with the
department store.
Both retained private health
insurance and both are eligible for
Social Security disability insurance.
Four years ago, both took AZT and
other drugs that held the best hope
in warding off opportunistic infections.
During those years, McRae was hospitalized
with pancreatitis, a reaction
to an AIDS-fighting prescription.
Justice suffered constant stomach
problems and diarrhea; a boil on his
leg became infected.
"We were getting sicker and sicker,"
McRae recalls. "We really thought
we were going to die."
That's when they decided to live ii
up . They leased the Cadillac thinking
they'd only be around a few
months to enjoy it.
Two years later, it still sits in their
driveway.
· AIDS Warriors & Heroes
First time since epidemic began.
AIDS deaths in U.S. drop significantly
By Tara Meyer
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - With the help of
better drugs and treatments, the
number of AIDS deaths has dropped
significantly for the first time since
the epidemic began in 1981, the government
reports.
"Years ago, before we had this medication,
people who would come in
would die within six months," said
Dr. Harold Kafner, who treats AIDS
patients in Macon, Ga. "Now, they
leave the hospital and go back to
work."
AIDS deaths in the United States
fell 13 percent in the first six months
of 1996, to an estimated .22,000 .people,
down from 24,900 deaths in the
same period a year earlier, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
reported.
The CDC also said that white the
number of people diagnosed with
AIDS continues to climb, the growth
rate is slowing. In 1995, about 62,200
people were diagnosed, an increase of
less than 2 percent over the 61,200
new cases in 1994. The growth rate
from 1993 to 1994 was5 percent.
"This is one of the first bright spots
we have seen in this epidemic," said
Christopher Portelli, executive
director of the National Lesbian and
Gay Health Association in Washington.
"But we hope ii is seen as a call
to arms rather than a chance to relax
and breathe a sigh of relief."
The first signs of the drop in AIDS
deaths came in January, when New
York City reported a 30 percent
decline in 1996.
The CDC credits better treatment
for AIDS p~tients, incl uding new
drugs, and better access to treatment
through state and federal programs.
What's still unclear is the impact of
a new class of drugs called protease
inh ibitors. The AIDS death rate leveled
off in 1995, before those medicines
became widely available.
Not all .doctors are sure that AIDS
is making an about-face.
"In my view, this decline is unfortunately
only a lull," said Dr. Irvin
S.Y. Chen, director of the AIDS Institute
at UCLA. "Not all patients are
responding as effectively as the
Thrift stores become fund
raisers in AIDS fight
SOME NONPROFIT AGENCIES are
· trying to raise money · for the fight
against AIDS in a unique way - thrift
shops.
Thrift stores and secondhand shops
operated by nonprofit agencies are
springing up across the country,
spurred by competition for donations,
fashion trends and newfound marketing
savvy .
William Stover is part of that
trend, and his organization's new
store, Indiana Thrift for AIDS,
opened in March on the northeast
side of Indianapolis with hopes of
clearing $100,000 in its first year .
In April, 10,000-square-foot Thrifty
Threads is scheduled to open in the
city's Broad Rippl e neighborhood,
with proceeds going to the Julian Center
to aid families in distress .
"If you can offer brand-name merchandise
at low prices, as thrift
stores do, there's a trem end ous market
to be h ad," said Richard Feinberg,
head of the Retail Institute at
Purdue University.
The Natio nal Asso ciation of Resale
and Thrift Shops estimates that its
membership has grown in the last
year by 12 percent, to 1,000 members.
."They'r e getting mor e professional
than they used to be," said Adele
Meyer, the group's manager .
A publicly traded company has even
emerged that specializes in used merchandise.
Grow Biz International Inc.
in Minneapolis ·owns dozens of stores,
franchises more than 1,000 and plans
to add more than 250 this year.
Population stu.dies show that the
number of middle-income shoppers
shrinking, forcing retailers to either
sell at a discount o r aim · for- highincome
consumers, Feinberg said.
Stover hopes to eventually achieve',
annual sales of $800,000 at Indiana
Thrift for AIDS, matching the success
of Philadelphia's 5-year-old Thrift
for AIDS . .
The Indiana store stems from a new
AIDS charity, the Indiana AIDS
Fund. The fund and the store have
been helped by gra nts from the
Health Foundation of Greate r Indianapolis
and federal matching
grants.
One of the biggest concerns for the
indust ry is competition, Meyer said .
"We stress that they work with
each other," she said. "If you keep
them in resale, you'll keep them from
the malls."
majority of patients. There are some
patients for whom the drugs are not
effective."
A growing number of people are living
with AIDS each year, the CDC
said. In June 1996, 223,000 Americans
age 13 and older had the disease - a
10 percent jump from mid-1995 and a
65 percent increase over 1993. ·
And some advocates point out that
AIDS patients, as they live longer,
wiHneed more help, not less.
"We are concerned that people will
misinterpret ·this news," Portelli
said . "We would hope to see more
money and support for better access to
medical services. New drugs are not
all we need."
As of December 1996, 581,429 Americans
had been diagnosed with AIDS
since 1981: 488,300 men, 85,500 women
and 7,629. children.
And some new trends are worrying
h ealth officials. Blacks accounted for
more cases of AIDS than whites for
the first time in 1996 - 41 percent compa
r ed to 38 percent. Hispanics
accounted for 19 percent, and other
races ·2 percent.
Also, the proportion of women with
AIDS is still increasing . In 1996,
women made up 20 percent of new
cases. AIDS deaths have not declined
among women or heterosexuals.
The estimate of AIDS deaths for
the first half of 1996, 22,000, was
based on the fact that 21,700 AIDS
deaths were reported to CDC, and
analysts figured the total would rise
somewhat as late reports came in.
Activists criticize phone
counseling for AIDS home test
By Robynn Tysver
Associated Press Writer
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - With a quiver
in her voice, a nervous telephone
counselor told Tom Spring that he
had the deadly virus that causes
AIDS ...
She then referred him to a pediatrician
whose telephone had been disconnected
for .three years. She also
asked how he planned to tell his
wife.
Spring is an unmarried gay male.
His story has fueled criticism in
Nebraska against the AIDS home
test kits that went on the market in
May with promises of telephone sensitivity
and helpful referrals.
"It's inbound telemarketing masquerading
as counseling," said Joseph
Hall, director of the Nebraska AIDS
Project and coordinator of the review
that Spring participated in a few
months ago.
complying," he said.
· Spring took the test at the group's
suggestion and to examine for himself
the tests . Spring has been HIV positive
for 10 years. "It's not to be Mr.
Mean, but to correct the problem,".he
said .
Several AIDS groups contacted
across the nation reported few if any
c.omplaints . In fact, the oncecontroversial
kits have generated little
interest, said Mike Shriver, a spokesman
for the National Association
of People with AIDS in Washington,
D .C.
The kits are sold under the brand
names Home Access Express and Confide.
Spring took both tests on the
market and was not happy with
either company's cqunselors.
"It was very cold, callus and calculating,"
he . said. "I just didn't think
they cared."
The companies stood by their counselors
.
A bill has been introduced in the Ellen Scofield, spokeswoman for
Nebraska Legislature to encourage Confide in Bridgewater, N.J., said
pharmacists, grocers and other each pe rson counsels differently and
retailers to put label s with the the company continually updates its
state's AIDS hotline number on the referra l bas e .
kits. The Health Committee heard She said 75 percent of Confide' s
testimony Feb. 20 in Lincoln ·on the counselors have master's degrees in
bill (LB619), which would provide counseling, social work and educatio n
the labels free to reta ilers from the and the average length of a call with
Nebraska AIDS Project. an infected person is 20 minutes.
Hall wants to make sure that those A spokesman for Home Access said
who have the viru s are referred to that in response t.o th e Nebraska test,
the state's l argest AIDS advocacy the company's referral base has been
group. "We want to give them updated, th e pediatrician's phone
(retailers) an opportu ni ty to do this numb er has been removed and cou nvoluntarily
and then come back next selors are told not to assume everyone
yea r, if we find out people are not is heterosexual.
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' I •
Names Makin News
UCC names specialist in
gay, lesbian concerns
THE REV. DR. WILLIAM R.. JOHNson
is the United Church of Christ's
first national staff minister for lesbian
and gay concerns.
The United Church Board for
Homeland Ministries has added
"lesbian, gay, bisexual and genderal
minority concerns" lo Johnson's portfolio.
Based in Cleveland; he has been
the Homeland Board's HIV/ AIDS
ministries specialist since 1990 and
will continue in that capacity. The ·
Homeland Board is the U.S. mission
arm of the 1.5 million-member UCC.
Johnson says the appointment of a
staff member specifically responsible
· for lesbian and gay concerns by the •
Homeland Board's directors "will .
make it clear lo UCC members - especially
local church pastors - which of
the national offices to call when .they
have a concern." ·
Johnson will develop resources for
pastors ministering to lesbians and
gays and 'their parents, as well as to
lesbian and gay youth.
Johnson is also chair of the Lesbian
and Gay Rights Cluster of the UCC's
Justice and Peace Ministry. The ministry
is a new network involving
several national UCC agencies and
concerned UCC members who are
interested in taking action on social
issues.
"We have worked hard in the UCC
to create open and affirming communities
where people who have not
felt welcome anywhere else have
found a spiritual home," Johnson
says.
Johnson, ordained in 1972 by the
UCC's Golden Gate Association in the
San Francisco Bay area, is believed to
be the first openly gay man ever
ordained to the Christian ministry .
Rev. Dr. William R. Johnson
Church & Or anization News
Gay, lesbian llltherans
react to church's message
LUTHERANS CONCERNED/North
America has reacted with frustration
to an Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America statement distributed last
fall to church congregations . The
church's message, entitled "Sexuality:
Some Common Convictions"
was intended by the church to summarize
areas of apparent conse.nsus
within the 5.2 million-member
denomination. Absent from the document
is any mention of gay or lesbian
issues "because of the level of dis~
agreement on the issue in the church."
Bob Gibeling, Program Executive for
Lutherans Concerned, said he was not
surprised by the statement but he. was
frustrated that the process of issuing
the statement took so long and moved
the church so little. "Why has fr ·
taken the church so Jong to say it just
doesn't know," Gibeling said. "If
nothing else, it certainly dramatizes
the importance of h~ving an organization
like Lutherans Concerned,
which is -independently doing ministry
while the debate rages on."
Gibeling said that Lutherans Concerned
will step up efforts to work
through local congregations to make
the church more welcoming of gays
and lesbians.
"We ~annot wait for everyone in the
church to understand how acute the
need is," he said. "We are called to
minister to people now."
PAGE 22 • SECOND STONE • MARCH/APRIL, 1997
Events
AnnOuncements in this section are provide<j.
jree of charge as a service to Christian
organizations. To have an event listed, send
information to Second Stone. P.O. Box
8340, New Orleans, LA '70182. FAX to
(504)899-4014. e-mail secstone@aoi.'com.
AIM For Common Ground:
Association of Independent
Ministries first conference
APRIL 11-13, Birmingham Community
Church in Birmingham. Ala .. is the setting
for this first conference of the Association
of Independent Ministries. The conference
will feature three worship services including
a special Saturday night healing service.
Representatives of all Christ-centered
churches and rninistcies are invited to attend.
Workshops offered include · "Recovery from
Religion. 11 For information contact Rev.
Chuck Thompson. P.O. Box 8506. Chattanooga
, TN 37414, (423)629-0887, or Rev.
Jim Becker. (601)373-0917.
Southeast ACTS weekend
APRIL 11-13 , Family or God Ministries or
Panama City , Fla., and Advance Christian
Ministries invites all to attend its second
annual Southeast Advance Christian Teaching
Seminars Weekend. This "Spirit-filled"
conference will focus on anointed praise and
worship. Cost is $35. For information contact
Family of God Ministries. 1139 Everitt
Ave., Panama City. FL 32401 , (904)784-
4851
Connecting Families Retreat:
Nourishment for the
Stages of the Journey
APRIL 11-13. The Brethren/Mennonite Parents
of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Children
invite families to their eighth annual Connecting
Family Weekend Retreat. This weekend
has been planned by families with gay
and lesbian members . It is intended to be a
safe, relaxing time to share common concerns
regarding homosexuality as it affects
our families and our churches. The retreat
will be held at the Laurelville Mennonite
Church Center in Laurelville, Pennsylvania.
Its purpose is to provide a context and setting
for connections _, worship, support, and
understanding for families with · gay and lesbian
members. The resource person for the
weekend will be Rev Helen Quintela, pastor
of the St. Paul Mennonite Fellowship. St.
Paul, Minnesota. For more information contact
Connecting Families. 242 Cats Back
Road, Ephrata, PA 17522 or
Brethren/Mennonite Parents of Lesbian, Gay
and Bisexual Children, PO Box 1708. Lima,
OH 45802 or Brethren /Mennonite Council
for Lesbian and Gay Concerns, Box 6300.
Minneapolis. MN 55406-0300. (612) 305-
0315. BMCouncil@aol.com.
Bridges To Wholeness:
Gay Clergy and Religious
Men In Transition
APRIL 14-17, Dawn Manor Retreat Center in
Livingston Manor, N.Y. is the setting for
this retreat led by Dan Pienciak. MDiv. The
goal of the retreat is to ·help participants
celebrate who they are. both apart from and
within the work they do. and how to find a
sense of comfortable and supportive community.
Cost is $345. For information call
Passageways, (908)988-5865 , or Dawn
Manor, (914)439-5815.
Other Sheep workshop
APRIL 19-20, Bethel Lutheran Church in St.
Louis , Missouri is the setting for this workshop.
themed "And God Said It Was Good :
Reuniting Spirituality and Sexuality." The
mother and daughter team of Eleanor and
Melanie Morrison, United Church of Christ
ministers, facilitates. They are directors of
Leaven, Inc., in Lansing.Mich. The conference
explores ihe question: if sexuality is a
precious gift of God. how did it happen that
sex became so identified with sin and why is
it that so many people oF Faith feel an odd
discomfort when talking about sexuality.
The event is sponsored by the St. Louis
chapter of Other Sheep, an international
ecumenical Christian ministry to and with
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons,
their families and friends. Cost is $35.
For information call (314)822-3296 or
(314)962,0592
Affirmation Spring
Gathering
APRIL 25-27, Clifton United Methodist
Church in Cincinnati, Ohio hosts Affirma.
lion's annual get together. "Rainbow of
Gender" is the theme. For information contact
.Affirmation: United Methodists for Lesbian,
Gay and Bisexual Concerns. P.O. Box
1021, Evan ston, IL 60204. (847)733-9590.
umaffirm@concentric.net.
King's College 15th
International Conference
on Death-and Bereavement
MAY 11-14. King's College in" London.
Ontario presents this confer e nce, themed
11Delivering Care in a Multicultural Setting 11
for caregivers and others ministering to the
dying and bereaved. The conference will
examine the traditions of various religions
in caring for the dying and grieving. Keynote
speaker is Rev. Dr. Andrew Greeley ,
who brings philosophical and religious
insight. as well as sociological learning . to
vast audiences in universities , in scholarly
texts and in popular novels. For information
contact Dr. John D. Morgan. King's College
, 266 Epworth Ave., London, Ontario
N6A 2M3. jmorgan@julian.uwo.ca.
(519)432-7946,
http: llwww. wwdc.comideath/.
Never Turning Back:
13th Annual More Light
Conference
MAY 23-25, Lewis and Clark College in Portland,
· Ore., is the setting for this Pres byte.
rian conference which features as its keynote
speaker Rev. Dr. James Alexander Forbes,
Jr., senior pastor of Riverside Church in New
York City. This conforence, a celebration oF
inclusion in Christ's community, will provide
. support for the newcomer as well as
stimulation and challenge for the longtimers
in the movement for inclusion. Ten
workshops are planned. For information call
Dick Hasbany, (541)345-4720 .
Events
Writing retreat
JUNE 2-4. "What God Is Up To .. In So Many
Words," a retreat led by Donna Schaper.
author of "Shelter for the Spiritually
Homeless ." The sess ion s will involve writing
and comment. A ll participants will
enjoy eac h other's work into being. Results
should include better listening ; a better relationship
with words. and the making of
speaking , writing. :,reac hing . and thinking
more truthful and beautiful. For information
co ntact Kirkridge. 2495 Fox Gap Rd .. Bangor,
PA 18013-9359. (6 10)588- 1793.
Gay, Lesbian and Christian:
Giving Praise
JUNE 5 -8. This 21st an nual event at the
mountain retreat of Kirkridge explores issues
of sexual ity in the con text of Christian faith
and practice and includes da ily worship, presentation
s, . sma ll group sharing, workshops.
play and celebration. Leaders are
John McNeill, Virginia Ramey Mollenkott.
Mary Hunt and Rev. Rainey Cheeks. Cost is
$300. ·For information contact Kirkridge.
2495 Fox Gap Rd ., Bangor. PA 18013-
9359, (6 10)588-1793. .
Friends for Lesbian and
Gay Concerns Gathering
JUNE 6 -8, "Spiritual Fruits and Nuts of the
Quaker Family Tree: What Are the Roots of
Ou r Calling as Queer Quakers?" is the iheme
of this meeting of Friends (Quakers). For
information contact Sam Elwonger
(206)246-8482, Pat Matthews (206)789-
.. 4275 or Margaret Sorrel (206)632-9566.
American Baptists Concerned
National Retreat
JUNE 28 -· JULY 1, "Rooted in the Word" is
lhe theme of this year's biennial meeting of
the American Baptist Church/USA and America
n Baptist s Concerned. The retreat will be
held at the Waycross Conference and Retreat
Cenler in Beanblossom, Indiana (near Indianapolis).
Fee is $200. Promised is a wonderfu
l time of comm unity building. worship.
and play . For informatio n con tact ABC. P.O.
Box 16128, Oakland, CA 94610, (510)530-
6562, ambaptists@aol.com.
UCCLGC 1997
National Gathering
JUNE 30 - JULY 3, The United Churc h Coalition
for Les bian and Gay Concerns is celebrating
it s 25th annive rsary during this
meeting lo be · held at Ohio State University
in Columbus. This gathering will include
affinity groups, worship, a dance, a talent
show, 'an Open & Affirming dinner · at North
Congregational Church, and many opportunities
to share stories and make friends . For
information call 1-800-653-0799.
The Disarming Heart:
12th Gathering of the
Baptist Peace Fellowship
JULY 21-26, "Part conference, part revival,"
this event -at Eastern Mennonite University
in Harrisonburg, Virginia, marks the 12th
gathering of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of
North America. The conference promises a
rediscovery of peacemaking heritage, special
programs for children and youth, touring
in the scenic and historic Shenandoah Valley,
and a festival of music, preaching. c!udy
and recreation. Regist ration fee is $95. For
information contact the Baptist Peace Fellowship,
P.O. Box 280, Lake Junaluska , NC
28745 .' (704)456-1881.
Gay and Lesbian Parents
Coalition International
18th Annual Conference
. J ULY 24-27, "W ith Libert y and Justice For
All" is the theme of the GLPCI and C hildren
of Lesbian and Gays Everywhere gathering
to be held al the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia,
Pa. Th~ organization invites all to
e~perience tl\e fellowship of families from
around the -world. Works hops include "Our
Families and the Schools" and "Multi,
Cu ltural Fami lies. 11
• Guest speakers include
Dr. April Martin, author of "The Gay and
Lesbian Parenting Handbook." For information
contact GLPCI, P.O. Box 43206. Mont clair,
NJ 07043, (201)783-6204.
Water of Life: Rites
of the Gay Male Spirit . .
AUGUST 1-3 ; Ken White and John Linscheid
facilitate this Kirkridge weekend retreat for
gay men . The gathering is an exploration of
the use of ritual to foster gay spiritual
growth. For information contact Kirkridge ,
2495 Fox Gap Rd., Bangor. PA 18013-
9359, (610)588-1793.
Gay and Lesbian
Family Week
AUGUST 2-9, Gay and Lesbian Parents Coalition
International sponsors a week of
re laxation and entertainment for gay and lesbian
families in Provincetown, Mass. For
information call (202)583-8029.
Parents , Families and Friends
of Lesbians and Gays 1997
International Conference
SEPTEMBER 11-14. PFLAG members from
around the country will° gather at the Clarion
Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Fla., for "Love Takes
Action: :The PFLAG Family Adventure ." For
information contact The Balcom Group,
3600 16th St. NW. Washington. DC 20008,
(202)234-3880. balcomgrp@aol.com.
Christian Lesbians OUT
4th Biennial Conference \ ·
OCTOBER 2-5. This gathering will be held at
a beautiful retreat center in the rolling hills
between Portland and Mt. Hood, Oregon.
"Called On The Journey: Sacred Space s Of
Our Lives 11 is this year's theme. Promised:
worsh ip, workshops. speakers and play! For
information ca ll (503)281-5405 or e-mail
mamadyke@aol.com.
Gay Christian
newsjournal online
Whosoever, an electronic magazine
for gay and lesbian Christians, has
four issues online. Visit the Whosoever
web page at
http://www.rriindspring.com/-sagec
omm/ whosoever/. ·
Transitions
REV. DR. MAC CHARLES JONES, a
prominent minister and one of the
National Council of Churches' two
deputy general secretaries, died
March 6 of an embolism. He was 47.
Jones was an ordained rriinister in the
National Baptist Convention of
• America Inc. and member . of the
World Council of Churches Central
Committee . He also served as pastor.
of St. Stephen Baptist Church in
Kansas City, Mo.The NCC's executive
board elected Jones to the position
of deputy general secretary for
national ministries in November.
Last summer, he accompanied 38 pas~
ors to Washington to meet with President
Clinton, Attorney General Janet
Reno and Treasury Secretary Robert
Rubin to call for help in stopping a
, Christian Community News
rash of black church arsons. Jones also
was an organizer of a "gang' summit"
in 1993 in Kansas City that drew
more than 100 gang members, former
gang members and others to discuss
improving inner-city conditions. "In a
tragic, sudden moment, the Rev. Dr.
Mac Charles Jones has passed from us
and we are deeply s tricken," the Rev.
Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, NCC general
secretary. "His ministry was to
be the whole nation. The loss is
enormous." Survivors include his
wife, Jannella; his mother, Elverta
Jones of Phoenix;. a brother, the Rev.
Robert Jones of Richmond, Va.; a
sister, Lillye Jones of Phoenix; daughter
Lacey Jones of Kansas City, Mo.;
and son, Ayinde Jones of Phoenix.
Church & Or anization News
Des Moines church added
to More Light roster
COTT AGE GROVE Presbyterian
Church in Des .Moines, Iowa, has
become the 76th congtes._ation in the
11,500-church denortuliiiftmn to name
itse!f a i,1ore Light church, the Des · ·
Moines Register ree_orted:· . B .. the
resolution passed by only two· votes in
a November poll that drew about 90
ballots. The congregation has 170
members.
Rev. David Madsen said his is the
only Presbyterian church in the Des
Moines area to adopt the designation.
The Rev. Phil Barrett of the Presbytery
of Des Moines, which oversees
south-central Iowa congregations,
said he doesn't know of another Iowa
Presbyterian church that has voted
for the More Light designation .
The General Assembly of the Presby.
terian Church (U.S.A:) has interpreted
the denomination's Book of
Order lo say that self-avowed, practicing
homosexuals are banned from
being ordained as rriinisters, elders or
deacons - the main leaders in the
church. The Book of Order doesn't
specifically say any such thing, Madsen
said.
"The effect of the ruling is more than
ordination because of the implications
of openness to gays and lesbi-
Web site an opportunity
to meet "faithmate"
A NEW WEBSITE called "Faith
Mates" features personal ads aimed
at helping single gay and lesbian
people, Christians and others, more
easily meet faith-oriented people.
The srte is located at
http ://www .geocities.com/ westholl
ywood/ 9229 /
ans," Madsen said.
"Being a More Light church simply
means the congregation has expressed
its disapproval of thu, stance," Madsen
said. "It does not mean we can
ordain gay leaders without getting in
trouble with the denomination 's
leaci.e~·, he added.
About 3 percent to 4 percent of Cottage
Grove's members are gay, Madsen
said . "We are not a gay church.
This is not tlie issue of the congregation
.. It is an issue."
Madsen said his congregation split
sharply on the issue for a couple of
reasons. "Some members probably
wrestled over whether to make a
public statement welcoming gays," he
· said.
But church members also fear the
stance may jeopardize the financial
support other churches provide for its
Cross Ministries, a program that
helps low-income people pay for
power bills and housing. Madsen
fears the stand on gays in the church
will be perceived as an affront to
churches with opposing stands.
- Des Moines Register
Reach Out. The Catholic
Church of the Americas welcomes
men, women, married,
single, gay, straight to the
priesthood or diaconate.
Nicene Creed theology, sacramental
presence, Vatican II
liturgy, apostolic succession,
socially liberal. Join us and
reach out to ALL God's children.
Contact Bishop Denis
Martel, 717 Patterson, New
Orleans, LA 70I 14.
PAGE 23 • SECOND STONE MARCH/APRIL, 1997
Lambda Literary Award nominee
'The Preacher's Son'
grabs finalist position
MARC ADAMS' "The Preacher's
Son" has been nominated along with
four other finalists vying for the
Lambda Literary Award for Best
Spirituality Book.
"The Preacher's Son" chronicles
Adams' life growing up gay as the son
of a fundamentalist Baptist minister
in rural Pennsylvania where . he
endured a childhood of physical,
emotional and spiritual abuse.
He went on to attend - by choice -
Jerry Falwell's Liberty University
where he also was employed for
three years in the student recruiting/
university relations department. His
book articulately reveals life at Liberty
and the struggle to conform to the
standards for which he would have
been a martyr . It culminates with his
coming to terms with being gay and
his coming out to his fundamentalist
family.
"Attending Liberty University and
working for Jerry Falwell was a
dream · come true," said Adams. "I
wanted to be there. I was promised
that I could be 'cured' of my homosexuality.
I wanted that more than anything
else."
Since its release .at the end of 19%,
"The Preacher's Son" has l:ieen garnering
praise from bookstores,
reviewers, the mainstream press . and
the gay and lesbian media. Not to be
discounted, Adams says, is the overwhelming
number of letters and
emails that he has received from men
and women, gay and straight, who
have read his book and found themselves
changed.
"Every time I open my mailbox and
find another letter, I am incredibly
humbled. I knew I had a responsibility
to share my story. I just didn't
expect to get such emotional and
heart breaking letters. I feel such an
awesome responsibility when I read
about how what I've shared has
touched peopie."
"The Preacher's Son" first entered
the Lambda Book Report's Top Ten
Best Selling Books for .Gay Men in
February.
Marc Adams, "The Preacher's Son"
Not a tell-all
book about
Jerry Falwell
and my life. I want readers to understand
what it was like to grow up
under the banner of fundamentalism -
my conversion and life as a preacher's
kid, the church services, attending
Christian high schools, and attending
a fundamentalist college where
Falwell and his influence was every-·
where. I want them to understand
what it was like to work for him, . to
promote his organization and recruit
students to attend Liberty. And most
importantly, I want readers to feel
what it's like to give up everything
just to say, 'I'm gay."'
Adams is continuing his nationwide
speaking and reading tour through
the summer.
TITe Lambda Literary Awards
recipients will be announced at a gala
banquet in Chicago on Friday, May
30.
For further information about "The
"Preacher's Son" is not a tell-all Preacher's Son" or about Marc Adams,
book about Jerry Falwell, Adams contact Window Books,
says. "It's about understanding myself wndowbooks@aol.com, 310-440-3327.
PAGE 24 • SECOND STONE • MARCH/APRIL, 1997
'Que(e)rying Religion'
Explorintgh eh istoripcr esencoef
homosexualiitny t hew orld'sr eligions
Books
IN THEIR NEW book, "Que(e)rying
Religion: A Critical Anthology,"
Gary David Comstock and.Susan E.
Henking have compiled the works of
41 contributors to explore the intersection
between homosexual studies and
religion.
Perhaps as a result of the alienation
they have felt from org·anized religions,
many gay, lesbian, and bisexual
people have not in general been
thought to-have been concerned with
religious or spiritual matters. Indeed,
other anthologies of work in gay
studies have not even mentioned religion.
As "Que(e)rying Religion" makes
abundantly clear, gay men and lesbians
have been thinking about the
intersection of critical theory from a
gay point of view and the study of
religion in numerous ways.
Whether it is John Boswell's
scholarly recovery of gay traditions
within the Christian church, Kenneth
Dover's analysis of homosexuality
in ancient Greece and Rome, Will
Roscoe's exploration of the berdache,
the seers whose lifestyles bridged
both men and women's in Native
American cultures, or the study of
effeminacy in Medina in the early
Islamic era - academics from many
disciplines are building up a substantial
body of evidence which illustrates
that homosexuality has been a
definite presence in the spiritual life
of different religions and cultures
throughout human history.
"Que(e)rying Religion" also
features work from writers, social
commentators, and activists in essays
that range from the personal and confessional
- such as Andrew Sullivan's
article on how he came out to himself
and remained a Catholic - to the
reflective, as in David Sch1\eider's .,.,,
biography of the gay Zen master
Issan Dorsey and Makedo Silvera's
discussion of what it was like growing
up an Afro-Caribbean lesbian.
All the major world religions are
discussed, and gay and lesbian men
and women from different cultures,
ethnicities, a\1d backgrounds are featured.
All, however, are united in recognizing
that their positions as outsiders
- within society as a whole and
often within the religious community
in particular - give them a unique
viewpoint from which to ask questions
of their religions and their
practitioners about the nature uf love,
faith, commitment, and passion as
well as to think critically about
dogma and doctrine.
Eunuchs sell book on their lives
By Ramola Talwar
Associated Press Writer
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Eunuchs took
to the streets of Bombay Feb. 14 selling
books they hope will boost their
image - and raise some cash.
The book, titled "Hijras Who We
Are," is an attempt to erase misconceptions
about eunuchs, known in
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TO MY HETEROSEXUAL Christian
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Every Sunday you are seated next to
me, as we gather to worship the Lord
Jesus Christ together, but you :do not
know me. Each Sunday you extend
your hand as a peace offering, to one
of God's gay children, but you do not
know that.
Yes, I am gay and that would dis.
turb you. So much so, that you would
prefer to remain at a comfortable distance
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I often wonder, if you came closer,
would y9u notice things about me you
were unable to see from a distance. I
often wonder, if we got closer, might
we recognize our common humanity in
tears, in dreams, in joys, in brokenness,
in God?
Would our lives as a whole matter
more than our differences in sexual
orientation?
Will you take the time, to talk
with me, walk with me, dine with
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MOST PEOPLE DO _not enjoy or endure
tolerating unfaithfulness ... especially
in their most special and intimate
relations hip s. This was historically
tru e in the nation of Israel also.
The Lord told the prophet Hosea to
do something unique. This undoubtedly
attracted much attention and
ridicule. God said to take a wife
wh ich was a .prostitute, a whore . Can
you imagine God commanding the
prophet to do such a thing?
Through the story we understand
that this was to be a lesson for the
nation of Israel. It was t o be a living
confrontation with their injustice and
attitudes which needed tci be corrected
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An amazing comparison can be made
with what is happening today in the
gay and lesbian community. God is
raising up gays and lesbians throughout
our congregations, churches,
denominations, seminaries, and circles
of religious influence to bring a
lesson and education to the church
·and the commun ities in which we
minister.
Like the ethical controversy which
Hosea's actions prompted, lesbians
and gays are likewise objects of discussions,
investigations, policies,
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still a lesson that God has to teach to
the church and the religious bodies
across our nation and to ·the world.
We preach mercy and justice, yet in
our discrimination we are hypocritical.
We profess a oneness and unity in
Christ, yet we persecute and disassociate
gays and lesbians from the fellowship
of the believers. We minister
to "whosoever will," yet close our
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committees, and our educational
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no matter how dependent or emotion.
ally bonded they may be," Shebeli
wrote.
The court said it would be proper for
the university faculty union to seek
coverage for gay couples as a part of
contract bargaining, and if such a benefit
were conferred in a contract it
would be upheld by the courts.
Julie Goldscheid, a lawyer'for the
National Organization for Women's
legal defense fund who participated
in the case, said the court missed an
opportunity to correct the injustices of
an antiquated law.
"The courts all of the time strike
down statutes that are on their face
discriminatory/' Goldscheid said.
"We have a decision that we think is
wrong."
The judges cited a passage in the
state Law Against Discrimination
that said it could not be "construed to
interfere with the operation ... of any
bona fide retirement, pension,
employee benefit or insurance plan."
Goldscheid said she was concerned
this could lead to other types of disof.
thejr _community. Contact: Brother Chris.:
tian, P.O. Box 2411, Mill valley, CA
94941.
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the journey of ·a lifetime! This 12-day trip
tl}rough this ancient and holy land includes a
2-night stop in delightful Amsterdam.
$2,469.00 per person. Contact Second
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THE CENTER FOR PASTORAL CARE, 3180
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M.Div, M.Ed. 2197
Gay and Lesbian Principians Group -- Alumni
of Principia Upper School and/or College,
for information write: David, Apt. 124, 2900
Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington. DC
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criminatory policies in insurance benefit
plans, such as reduced disability
coverage for pregnant women.
"Nothing in the court's analysis
changes our view that it is very clear
that New Jersey law requires all
employers to provide these benefits
to all employees and their dependents,"
Goldscheid said.
Two of the three judges appeared to
agree with Goldscheid's sentiments
but felt bound to rule against her.
"What goes on in other people's
bedrooms is a question that has
intrigued me since reaching puberty,
but it is none of my business," wrote
Appeals Judge David Baime. "I thus
find is distasteful to uphold the
denial of health insurance to the
dependents of a deserving segment of
the work force merely because of
their sexual predilections."
Appeals Judge· Paul Levy agreed
with Baime but added, "Our individual
views of justice cannot override
the clear intent (of the law)."
''This issue warrants immediate legislative
attention and we should say
so," Levy wrote.