'If you’re just looking for acceptance, that’s not much of a goal. But celebration is a goal that has some life to it,' said one minister.
From that point on — and after the service went ahead as planned and “no lightning struck” — Vedress says they’ve never looked back.Since then, she says more young families have joined the church, because they feel like this is a good place to raise their kids.
“When we first started , we recognized that the LGBTQ2S+ youth in Swift Current needed to know that there was a safe place — and so did the adults, but at the time, we were thinking more of the youth,” she said. “I mean, we have people in our congregation who have family members who lived here as gay teens, and who no longer live here.Rev. Brenda Curtis stands for a photo in the chapel of Westminster United Church in Humboldt.
“We’re working on being more aware of what the barriers are to people who might come into our community or into our church, and why people might think they don’t belong,” she said. “How can we address that? That’s not the way churches are supposed to be. God’s love is for everyone, and we have to work at living that out.”
“One of the important things, at the very beginning, is not ignoring the reality of transgender and queer people when they come into the church,” said La Ronge United Church minister Janae Brownley. “To me, that’s like whitewashing — to say that as long as we whitewash out that person’s identity as transgender or queer, then we can live with them. So don’t ever say anything about it. Don’t ask questions.
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