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The mainline churches have done you a great disservice. The very institution that should have been loving, compassionate, and understanding has failed for the most part to see you with the same welcoming spirit that they see each other. You are wrongly perceived by many as a threat to family values, doctrinal stability, and standards of decency. Your people have been cruelly treated without apology and often without proper explanation.

It would be very understandable if you don’t want to have anything to do with the church anymore. If the way you’ve been treated is typical of faithfulness without love, why would anyone want to associate with that kind of hypocrisy? Your contempt for the prevailing religious attitudes would not be one bit surprising.

Having said that, I want to also state that not all of us feel the same as those who are shunning you, ridiculing you, threatening you, or abusing you. Some of us who are not gay have matured in our thinking to where we acknowledge your rightful place in society and the church of your choice. We want to see you have every benefit and blessing of religious affiliation that is available to everyone else. You’ve been deprived of a place at the Table for far too long. We want to say that you’ve been missed and we’re asking that a place be reserved for you just in case you want to come back.