Dear Community UCC & Friends,
Three years ago, on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court
ruled in favor of same-sex marriage across the land.
There was a time when I thought I would always live a
compromised life either dishonest to myself or the world. It took me a long
time to understand that the only compromise I had to make was the one that
called me to give-up my codependent relationship with a broken world. One that
lives to judge, that thrives on the exploitation and marginalization of its
most honest souls, that depends on our believing its lies.
Today, I
choose hope in the face of impossibility. I believe in a “God who gives life to
the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.”
Today, I am
blessed to stand by my wife, with our two children, alongside a beautiful and
beloved community of God's people, resisting, one day at a time, the lies that
perpetuate oppression and violence.
Each day, as
we wake-up to a world of impossibilities, may we choose hope as our weapon of
resistance and faith as our strength in persisting. Love will lead the way as
we work to challenge and mend the brokenness between us.
Four years ago, On October 10, 2014, a North Carolina
U.S. District Court judge ruled in General Synod of the United Church of Christ
v. Cooper that the state's denial of marriage rights to same-sex couples was
unconstitutional.
#nomorelies
Spirit is
leading the way,
Rev. Jenny
Shultz-Thomas