Gay accepting churches near me
Resource List of Welcoming and Affirming Congregations and Communities
PFLAG Pittsburgh has compiled this resource list of Welcoming and Affirming Congregations and Communities. While PFLAG Pittsburgh cannot guarantee a positive experience at any particular religious gathering, all of the included spiritual and religious groups have agreed to be part of this resource list and have confirmed to PFLAG Pittsburgh that they are welcoming and affirming. This list in intended to to assist the LGBTQ community and allies by providing an indication of what to expect in seeking spiritual enrichment with the listed faith and spiritual communities.
If you would like to add your religious organization to our list, please contact us at info@pflagpgh.org.
Click on the categories listed below for a list of the accepting and affirming religious communities in your area:
Baptists
Buddhism
Catholic
Episcopalian
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
Judaism
Lutheran
Methodist
Metropolitan Community Church (MCC)
Multi/Nondenominational
Pagan
Presbyterian
Unitarian Universalist
United Church of Christ
Other/Specialized Groups
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Inclusive
Places of Worship
Fourth Presbyterian Church is a community of faith, a spiritual home, and a missional church that strives to embody God’s love revealed in the experience, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We value intellectual honesty, openness, soft-hearted care, and the work of justice, reconciliation, and accord.
We’ve deepened our commitment to LGBTQIA+ education and lobbying and are continually striving to be a place of affirmation and celebration, living into our values statement which declares: “We affirm and invite the full belonging of people of all races, ethnicities, cultures, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, educational attainment, and socioeconomic status in this faith group, promoting the equitable participation of all in the being of this congregation, including worship, sacraments, membership, ordination, marriage, teaching, preaching, fellowship, committees, leadership, and employment.”
Presbyterian (PCUSA)
Fourth Presbyterian
PFLAG // Resources //
While PFLAG and it’s chapters are not affiliated with any religious organization, as a chapter, we have often shared information regarding religious topics that we felt might be of importance to our members and visitors. As such, for many years this page was filled with a list of local churches and congregations which we had been advised were welcoming and affirming to gay and lesbian people. However, over the last scant years, we have seen this list grow in size to the point that it is simply not feasible for us to continue to maintain it any longer.
Therefore, we have decided to share a resource that many have recommended to us in their own search for a local, affirming Christian congregation:
http://www.gaychurch.org
While we know that this resource focuses primarily on Christian churches that are welcoming of queer and lesbian people, we understand there are many local congregations, both Christian and otherwise, that are welcoming and affirming to not only gay and woman-loving woman people, but to the greater LGBTQ community as well. While we do not currently hold a comprehensive resource for these congregations, we recommend checking out the lis
Poly-friendly Churches
I recently wrote the following in response to a podcast that invited responses from Christian polyamorists. I've touched on this subject in a couple of threads here already, but consideration I might as well as distribute these more end thoughts here as well.
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While there are clearly many non-Christians of various sorts in the poly community, there are also a number of us who self identify as Christian and exercise the faith as we understand it. I was raised in an Evangelical-Fundamentalist church, and while I discarded most of that traditional theology early on, I did eventually find great essence in the metaphysical esoteric understanding of New Thought Christianity (eventually coming to a personal doctrine structure that might best be characterized as Platonic-Christian Gnosticism), and a spiritual practice based on love, kindness, forgiveness - and with tolerance and open-mindedness obviously being implicit in that. From my perspective, that is, after all, the message that Jesus intended to offer to the world - even if the Church founded in his name all too often fails to demonstrate those ethics.
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