“I first saw the rainbow flag in a church” posted by Believe Out Loud

I first saw the rainbow flag of LGBTQ Pride in a church.

It was 1985, back when same-sex marriage was so taboo that pollsters didn’t even ask about it.

At last I was free to be fully myself, both lesbian and Christian, on my first day at Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco.

Click here to read the whole story in a new reflection that I wrote for Believe Out Loud, a group promoting LGBTQ equality in the church.

Gay Passion of Christ controversy examined in new articles at Huff Post and Believe Out Loud

Two major new articles take an in-depth look at the controversy over repeated rejections of Facebook ads for the gay Passion of Christ book.

Believe Out Loud, a group promoting LGBTQ equality in the church, explored how the Passion ads raise larger issues of religious freedom on March 23 in:

“Gay Christian Facebook Ads Rejected and Resurrected”


Huffington Post focused on more secular issues of LGBTQ rights, censorship and press freedom on March 25 in:

“LGBT Christian Ads Shows Limits of Social Media”

Both articles are by Kittredge Cherry, author of “The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision” and founder of the Jesus in Love Blog.

A news report also appeared in the Christian Times on March 28 titled, “The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision' ads rejected by Facebook, art book offends depicting Jesus as a homosexual.”