Never in a "million years" did Robert Renix think he would find a Baptist church that would accept someone like him: a black Baptist gay man. Never mind one that would allow what happened one Saturday last month, when a tuxedo-clad Renix stood in front of the pulpit at Covenant Baptist Church in Anacostia, exchanging vows with his partner, Antonio Long.
Read the rest in the Washington Post.
And check out this amazing slide show focusing on Unity Fellowship Church in Northwest Washington, which opens its doors to all denominations, races and sexual orientations. Lesbian pastor, Rev. Dyan McCray, says she aspires for Unity to reflect what she thinks heaven looks like.
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