Posts tagged Metropolitan Community Church

Senior Pastor at Metropolitan Community Church, Reverend Dale Yardy, gave Star Observer his view of the proposed Religious Discrimination Bill. I’ve always been gay; I’ve …

MCC Trivia Fundraiser. Saturday 2 November 2019. Photographer: Ann-Marie Calilhanna.

“We are a church that is not unfamiliar with persecution as we are made up of mostly members of the LGBT community”

The Metropolitan Community Church encourages all LGBTI people to embrace Christmas with their loved ones this year.

“It is unfortunate that these schools leave behind the inclusive love of Jesus by viciously defending their right to expel on the grounds of sexuality.”

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The Metropolitan Community Church in Sydney this year celebrated its 40th anniversary, at a time when LGBTI communities themselves face uncertainty. Benjamin Riley asks what a future of increasing social acceptance might hold for a church that began as a refuge for gay and lesbian Christians excluded from their faith.

THOUSANDS of Australians took to the streets over the weekend to show compassion for asylum seekers, including LGBTI refugees, after one was killed and about …

THE Metropolitan Community Church will hold its annual blessing of the Mardi Gras festival this weekend. Taking place on Sunday evening, the service at the …

Sydney Catholic Archbishop George Pell has played down comments by Pope Francis calling on the Catholic Church to abandon its “obsession” with homosexuality, claiming the …