Posts tagged Metropolitan Community Church

A Melbourne court on Friday sentenced Neil Erikson, a 36-year-old far-right extremist, to 10 weeks in jail for entering an LGBTQI+ friendly church and hurling …

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. In five days time celebrations will be kicking off across Australia. Following the year that we have …

Councillor Anna York has announced that the Inner West Pride Centre has found a home in Newtown. The idea for the Inner West Pride Centre …

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.