Tag Archives: open and affirming

Many LGBTQ+ persons have been told they will be welcome in a church community only to realize that not all of who they are is welcome.

For 23 years, Spokane’s LGBTQ community have bravely taken to the streets in a march for inclusion and respect, and for 23 years there have been Christian groups in attendance who think that homosexuals and transgender people are living in sin.

With 20/20 hindsight, one gets to piece together markers on the highway. For me at 11 years old, I didn’t understand my fixation with Aaron Carter singing “I want Candy.”

It's been a long and difficult conversation. For two decades the Pacific Northwest Conference United Church of Christ tabled the gay issue. Should homosexuals be welcomed into the church? Should they be allowed to marry? Participate? Be ordained? Until last year no one could agree. Rev. Linda Crowe, of Veradale …