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  • [Methodist] Church Has Inclusive Communion, Invites Gay Judge [Denied Communion at Catholic Church]

    12/03/2019 5:12:50 PM PST · by marshmallow · 51 replies
    WOOD TV ^ | 12/2/19 | Whitney Burney
    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids church is working to change the relationship between churches and the LGBTQ community. The First United Methodist Church on Fulton Street and Barclay Avenue hosted their fourth ever inclusive Communion service on Sunday night. This comes after Kent County Judge Sara Smolenski says she was denied Communion at her home church for being gay. Smolenski says she’s been a parishioner at St. Stephen Catholic Church in East Grand Rapids for 62 years and this has never happened to her before. “Why exclude anyone when they have sincere desire to come to God’s...