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Tearing Down Walls. Building Up Hope. |
Metropolitan Community Churches Celebrates as Califironia's Proposition 8 is Ruled Unconstitutional | | Office of the Moderator Metropolitan Community Churches For Immediate Release: 4 August 2010 Metropolitan Community Churches lifts its voice in celebration with voices from around the world today as the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Proposition 8 unconstitutional. "Although we know the case will likely be appealed, today we celebrate a step forward in the return to marriage equality for all citizens of California, and a step closer to marriage equality all over the United States of America," said MCC Moderator The Reverend Elder Nancy Wilson. "Our federal courts have finally acknowledged what we have known all along: fundamental rights exist only when they are enjoyed by all people, without qualification." Proposition 8 denies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals in California the right to equal marriage. "People of faith along with a large and diverse group of fair-minded people agree that excluding any group of people from marriage or any other basic right is wrong," commented The Reverend Jim Merritt, Marriage Equality Coordinator for MCC's Global Justice Team. Leaders and members of Metropolitan Community Church have been involved in the struggle for Marriage Equality for over four decades, among them MCC Founder Rev. Troy Perry, who performed the first public same-sex wedding in the United States in 1969, and Rev. Dr. Neil Thomas, Senior Pastor of MCC Los Angeles and President of California Faith for Equality, and Rev. Roland Stringfellow, Coordinator of the Coalition of Welcoming Congregations in the Bay Area of California. The Reverend Dr. Lea Brown, Pastor of MCC in San Francisco said, "All of us at MCC in San Francisco are giving thanks for today's decision for equality and fairness for LGBT people in California. We have always known those who oppose marriage equality based on religious faith would never have the last word. We are celebrating this victory in court today and giving thanks for huge step forward. We will keep on keeping on because we know this is not the end of the road." Metropolitan Community Churches continues to stand for Marriage Equality and for full equality and justice for all people both in the United States and around the world. For additional information about MCC, visit www.MCCchurch.org. This statement prepared in conjunction with The Moderator's Global Justice Team, Metropolitan Community Churches, The Rev. Pat Bumgardner, Chair. | | | | | |
