Diversity is an article of faith for Utah gay-friendly church
South Valley » Transgender minister leads flock of LGBT and straight congregants.
By Rosemary Winters
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 06/19/2009 10:38:14 PM MDT
http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_12611602?source=rvCottonwood Heights » The Rev. Sean Parker Dennison knows how it feels to struggle to fit, to blend, to belong.
Now, Dennison greets a variety of people -- young and old, gay and straight, Anglo and non-Anglo -- to Sunday services at the South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, a religious community that bills itself as "intentionally diverse."
On the chapel's exterior hangs a giant rainbow flag with the label "hate-free zone," a welcome mat for at least one sometimes-marginalized community that has found refuge at the church: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.
Dennison himself is transgender.
