were there religious groups at your pride? (try two)

[kalmn]

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my ass was showing, so i have deleted and recreated, if you're wondering why you're seeing this twice.

there's a blog post going around at the moment, where a christian group went to a pride parade and held up signs apologizing for how other christians had treated them poorly. and i am pleased to see that happened, and i think it doesn't happen enough.

but some people seem so astonished by christians being at pride at all that i am just wondering, do your local churches not come?

there was an entire uu delegation there, i believe, and enormous stickers being handed out saying "lutherans love me" (which is not entirely true, as it's only the elca that i know of and even they are still discussing acceptable career choices for queers at least they were last time i checked).

any hate the sin love the sinner rhetoric gets your comment frozen if not deleted and you possibly banned. fyi.

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[jenett]

I wasn't at the local this year, but Twin Cities Pagan Pride has had a booth at Gay Pride for over ten years, and most years has been in Religion Row with a whole bunch of other religious-related groups (UU, Methodist, Lutheran, atheists, among others, and I know I'm forgetting some.)

I really love the conversations that happen when I've been manning the TCPPD booth early in the morning or during the parade when it's quiet.