Metropolitan Community Church
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Metropolitan Community Churches is a fellowship of more than 300 Protestant Christian congregations in 22 countries with a focus on outreach to gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered.
The first congregation was founded in Los Angeles by Rev. Troy Perry in 1968, a time when Christian attitudes toward homosexuality were almost universally negative.
The church bases its theology on the Apostles and Nicene creeds. It rejects literal interpretation of the Bible, asserting that context and culture are important to biblical interpretation.
External links
- GayFaith Foundation (gayfaith.org) (http://www.gayfaith.org/RESEARCH%20ARTICLES/metropolitian%20community%20church.pdf) "Of Markets and Mission: The Early History of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches," Religion and American Culture (2001).
- Metropolitan Community Church (http://mccchurch.org/)
- The MCCs' Report on Hate Crimes at Wikisource (http://wikisource.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Community_Church_Hate_Crimes)