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nd one of them, a lawyer, asked
Jesus a question, as a test.
Teacher, which is the greatest
commandment in the law?” And Jesus
answered, You shall love the Sovereign
your God with all your heart, and with all
your soul, and with all your mind. This is
the great and first commandment. And a
second is like it. You shall love your neigh­
bor as yourself. On these two command­
ments depend all the law and the
prophets.’' (Matthew 22:35-40)
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Lesbian and Gay Pride celebrations —
are they sacred or secular? Are civil rights
and worshop compatible? Do religious
groups properly minister only to the soul
or do they help us address all aspects of our
living?
The answers we give for any of these
questions directly reflect our own views of
who God is and who we are. A need to
make separations or divisions between
worship and politics, between secular and
sacred, between soul and physical/
emotional/intellectual indicate what
separation we perceive between Cod and
self.
Many of us struggle with questions of
this sort when we come to Metropolitan
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Community Church (MCC). After having
felt unwelcome in our churches of origin,
many of us declared ourselves to be non­
spiritual beings, done w ith that God stuff
which seemingly only caused us pain. We
were the persons who were disenfran­
chised and separated not only from
society-at-large, but also from God. We
were told that society didn't like us be­
cause God didn't, and frequently we be­
lieved that false message. When we did
become willing to again recognize the
spiritual aspects of ourselves and to over­
come our suspicion of institutions enough
to associate ourselves with churches and
corporate worhsip, we were in desperate
need of spiritual healing.
For example, I had few doubts left about
my ability to deal with an often-hostile and
indifferent world. 1 came to MCC as a
front-line Roseburg politico, and stayed
because of the miracle of hearing my sisters
and brothers singing hymns to and about
God. My spirit was thirsty, and I drank in
the words and the music and the realization
that I had a God who loved me. I had
banished my Spirit behind locked doors
deep inside me. lest I feel the pain of
separating myself from a God with whom I
had wanted to share my life. At MCC I
opened those doors and my Spirit began to
breathe again.
MCC is a most unusual church. To
quote a pamphlet from UFMCC (Univer­
sal Fellowship of Metropolitan Commun­
ity Churches):
A church which proclaims liberation
fo r all. a church which extends its ministry
to persons o f all races and backgrounds,
to young and old alike, to rich and poor, a
church which welcomes Gays, Lesbians
and heterosexuals to worship together, to
witness and ser\ e together
such a
church is, indeed, a rare church in modern
times. From the earliest days o f MCC,
involvement in Christian Social Action has
been central to all of us, including our
founder. Reverend Troy Perry.
In the late 1960s and throughout the
1970s Troy Perry led marches, promoted
demonstrations, staged sit-ins and fasted
in public to advance the cause o f Gay
rights. As times changed. Reverend Perry
and MCC members became active in addi­
tional approaches to gaining freedom
from the oppression they felt had long been
perpetrated on Gay people.
At our General Conference in 1983,
UFMCC passed a resolution outlining our
response to the AIDS crisis. It calls for
active pastoral care and leadership in edu­
cational, political activism and social re­
sponsibility to the local congregational
and denominational levels.
At that same conference, two other re­
solutions were passed in support of a
freeze on nuclear weapons world peace
and justice are urgent concerns o f our
world-wide Fellowship.
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sociological struggle with the status of wo­
men in a number of Christian denomina-
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