Faith Has No Boundaries: The Bridge to Victory for LGBT Advocates

By Kelli Busey

Like a fireman guiding a plume of water, faith-based LGBT advocates focus on the very root and cause of bigotry and ignorance.

LGBT faith advocates worship with people who oppose us on equality, in their Churches, and are accessing the most viable path to successfully opening hearts and minds and may soon share an incredible spiritual link with even our most intense opponent.

Christ's love knows no boundaries.

LGBT Faith advocates are absolutely essential for our civil rights movement's success.

In Christianity, historically, the most successful and victorious opponents of LGBT rights worships along side us every Sunday. We might be sharing the same interior walls or be miles apart but we are together none the less at the base of Christ's cross.

Some Christian ministries have become lost and have divided their congregations by encouraging distrust, fear and anger. This is what motivated the originators of the segregation of people of color in the past, and presently is being manipulated to target LGBT people by seeking to deny and exclude us from participation and ministry in worship and social equality.

As the ages have born witness, as more people become aware, the breeze becomes a hurricane and anger becomes a barren rock, swept clean of all pretentious facades, exposing to believers of Christ the underlying ugliness of bigotry.

Christians soon recognize this as hate and contrary to everything we share and love and the process of doubting these unfortunate and misleading ministries begins. A new, fertile soil is carried on our breeze and joined with the rock as our tears nurture the seeds of love and hope.

The when and where this realization begins is up to each and every one of us.

If we only worship in our LGBT churches, the word of Christ will remain muted. If we choose to be a part of this wind and worship on Sundays when we are strong enough to bare our souls at Churches we know reject us, we bring this conversation undeniably to full view.

Choose a Sunday!

Choose a Sunday when you feel strong and put on identifying apparel, {or in my case I'm a transgender woman and I just have to go} that makes you visible and sit down in a pew. Breath in the moment. You will feel every possible emotion from your neighbours. Surprisingly, you may notice acceptance from some, but many may fear and loathe you. These are learned reactions, so when people see that you are there to truly worship, distrust and fear are diminished. Some may still hate you and object to your very presence, and you might even be denied communion.

It's not easy, but our Saviour suffered for us so we us could do this.

On that very day, you will have accomplished a miracle. You will have touched people deeply by your bravery and faith. You will have introduced and communicated on a personal level our community to people who otherwise would have never known us.

Whether I am going to burn in hell, as one Baptist Minister told me, or if I am a true disciple of Jesus, as I am convinced, we share our faith together. I will go to his church on Sunday and love Jesus Christ as much as if I was in an MCC Church. This is the bridge, solid as a rock, and available for us to cross to victory.

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