Gay Pride
Wayne Gustafson, Interim Minister
http://hlc-at-park.blogspot.com/2008/06/gay-pride.htmlThis Saturday, June 14, is the annual Gay Pride Event in Elmira. For some (perhaps even most) religious groups, the demonstration of pride by those of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual orientation, is seen as an affront to God. For other religious groups (The Park Church among them) a Gay Pride event is a way that a radically disenfranchised group can affirm their human dignity, and is therefore worth our support and our advocacy on their behalf.
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From everything I've ever known about gay pride events, the purpose is to give appropriate space for human dignity, so that people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc. don't have to hide their identity away in shame. They can stand in the light and be who they are, and it has nothing to do with arrogance or superiority. That's what we support and encourage, and that is why this church co-sponsors these gay pride events.
