Ministers Preach to Gays and Straights at Atlanta’s Join the Impact Protest Against Prop 8
Several ministers spoke in both religious and secular terms about the issues of gay rights and gay marriage at the Join the Impact! protest in Atlanta last Saturday.
Take a look at Life on Q’s video of the speech by Dr. Margaret Aymer at Atlanta’s Join the Impact protest for gay marriage on Nov. 15, 2008. Dr. Aymer talks about her mixed race marriage, the commonalities between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement, and her point of view as a Presbyterian minister and professor of theology.
Dr. Aymer is an assistant professor at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta. She holds a degree in U.S. History from Harvard University, Masters Degrees in divinity and philosophy from the Union Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in the New Testament and Early Christianity, also from Union.
The Rev. Paul Turner of Atlanta’s Gentle Spirit Christian Church acknowledged the pain and disappointment of discrimination in his speech. He offered words of encouragement to the LGBT community and also sent a message to those who oppose us. Rev. Turner majored in Theology and minored in Psychology at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. He left prior to graduation when the nature of his sexual orientation became clear to him and church officials informed him that he would never be ordained within the United Methodist Church. He then discovered the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Church in 1982. He received a certificate in “Crisis Intervention” from the Council of Christian Communions of Cincinnati in 1983; served on the Crisis Intervention Team and as a Chaplain for the city jail, was licensed as a clergyperson in the UFMCC in 1986, and ordained in 1989. After leading churches in Ohio and Atlanta, Rev. Turner founded Gentle Spirit Christian Church in 1998.
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