05/30/2023
As this world struggles more and more with backlash on Transgender rights, the MCC church has released this statement and I want to share it with all of you. THIS is our church, my friends!!!
The MCC Elders advocate alongside our transgender siblings who should be supported and protected from physical and emotional violence and encouraged to fully participate in community and family life. Trans children and adults should be ensured access to medicines and other gender-affirming treatments.
Metropolitan Community Churches, around the globe, continue to practice inclusion and the recognition of the full humanity of every person. We raise spiritual voices for the inherent sacred worth of every trans and non-binary person. Join us in prayer and action for their safety and protection.
Prayer for the Transgender Community
Written by Lewis Reay
We are with our transgender siblings, who you made, and welcomed into your family.
Our gender identity is truly a gift from you, Creator, Christ and Sustainer of all there is.
We come to you at this time of great distress, when human rights are being
eroded, when transphobia is on the rise.
We ask for your justice in this time of hatred, we ask for wisdom to know
how to resist, and we ask for love to soothe our broken hearts.
We ask for wisdom for politicians of all parties, that they may know your
path of justice.
We ask for strength for our activists, that they would have your courage to continue their work, seeking a fair and just society for all people.
We thank you for the transgender people in our church community, and, we thank you for all transgender people throughout Scotland.
We ask that we would know your peace and grace.
We ask for comfort for all those who have been traumatised by transphobic political processes.
We know that you are with us and that you will never leave us.
So, we thank you for the Creator, the Risen One, the Wisdom of Sophia
and for your limitless Love.
In Your many names.
Amen.