Lutherans Love: God Does Not Hate!
| WELCOME to LUTHERANS CONCERNED / LOS ANGELES: A Christian Ministry for all sexual orientations and gender identities. Screening of "8: The Mormon Proposition" see below GOD DOES NOT HATE! This is the message the LGBT community wants to hear--the real message of the Gospel! The Christian faith is a gift of love not hatred, joy not dread, hope not defeat. God is love! God hates no one, since God made us as we are! "Lutherans Love!" If you are not familiar with Lutheran Christians, this one thing is most important to know: we are not part of the "religious right." We are people with deep faith in God's abiding love for all! And we believe it is our mission to proclaim God's grace for all people including lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/transgender/ queer/ questioning people (and everyone else)! |
We've been working with local Lutheran congregations for 25 years to identify places where LGBTQ people can feel safe and experience love without judgment or condemnation. About 400 Lutheran churches nation-wide have joined the Reconciling in Christ program, which encourages and enables local churches to affirm their welcome publicly.
See: Welcoming Congregations for complete listing of Reconciling congregations in the Los Angeles area.
What's new in Lutherans Concerned?
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Join us for the Annual Meeting of the LC/Los Angeles Chapter, at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, North Hollywood, beginning at 5:30 pm. St. Matthew's is at 11031 Camarillo Street at the intersection with Vineland and Lankershim. Light refreshments will be served.
Following the 90 minute meeting, the recent documentary film "8: The Mormon Proposition" will be screened.
If you have not yet seen this fascinating documentary hosted by Dustin Lance Black you MUST join us! And even if you have seen it you will want to see it again. The documentary exposes how the Mormon leadership deceitfully manipulated the voters of California into taking away marriage rights from same-sex couples. You will be shocked, you will be angered, and you will hopefully be compelled to fight the tyranny of this dangerous cult.
SYNOPSIS: Director Reed Cowan initially planned on making a documentary about gay teen homelessness and suicide in Utah but soon realized that the homophobia that prompts otherwise loving parents to kick teenagers out of their homes is deep-seated in current Mormon ideology. Cowan, with his fellow filmmakers, experienced first-hand what it was like to grow up gay in Utah in the Mormon faith, then turned their attention to the historic campaign by the Mormon Church to pass Proposition 8 in California believing that it was the cornerstone of an ideology that has worked for decades “to damage gay people and their causes.” The film is their emotional outcry to what they found. See the trailer at www.mormonproposition.com
On the NEWS pages, find these recent stories:
Pastor Anita Hill approved for admission to ELCA Clergy Roster
September 20 Annual Meeting
Also see: LC/LA at Outfest 2009
Demonstrations against Proposition 8
Did you see us? Christopher Street West PRIDE Festival, June 13-14, 2009 in West Hollywood!
 In recent years we have featured "My BIG FAT Gay Church Wedding" booth at the CSW Festival. Hundreds of couples were photogeraphed in wedding outfits. |  |
 | MONTHLY CHAPTER EVENT!! Lutherans Concerned/Los Angeles gathers every 3rd Sunday, 5:30 pm at Hollywood Lutheran Church, 1733 N. New Hampshire Avenue, Los Angeles, for worship, potluck and food for thought! For map/directions, see: www.hollywoodlutheran.org/contact.html. For more information, join our e-mail list! Lutherans Concerned/Los Angeles Mail: 7336 Santa Monica Blvd. Box 749, Los Angeles, CA 90046-6616 Lutherans Concerned/Los Angeles is a Chapter of Lutherans Concerned/North America - Since 1974. |
