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Originally Posted by Dan.Linehan 
I know it's a bit unfair to group all churches together when looking at this issue. Not all churches are the same, by any means. I realize that there are some very loving, open minded, joyous churches out there.
An interesting indicator of how truly loving and accepting a given church is would be their response to 1. an atheist joining, and 2. a gay couple joining.
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I agree. I guess this is another reason why I didn't take the issues of the article to heart. I play handbells in the family church, so I come in to church and service those days and I'm absent for the rest. I don't know what everyone else in the choir makes of that, but they know I am a nice person and they don't really ask questions. I'm not an atheist, but they don't really know that. I don't think they would ask me to stop attending if I did say something to the sort. They might be curious but accepting.
I find that everyone is welcomed at the service, gays included. The LGBT community (along with many other communities) also has outside-of-service but in-the-church meetings.
The Church allows the Muslim community to use one of the chapels in the church to worship.
They offer yoga, meditation, languages, and faith classes, and groups for the homeless .....etc. etc. Tons of stuff.
I don't know. It seems pretty good to me. I see so many loving people, so what do I care what they believe? I don't think Christianity is a bad thing--I think it's just the expression of some of the communities within it. But that goes for all different types of groups. There are always bad apples in the mix. I guess the key is to making sure that the most open-minded persons are the ones that end up making our laws.