NJ: UFC Congregation Fights for Gay Marriage

When Kevin E. Taylor was a teenager, he and his mother had one of those serious talks that kids and parents occasionally have about the future. "At 13, my coming-out conversation with my mother included her asking me if I was ever going to get married," he said. "Why you ask a 13-year-old boy that, living in the projects, I don't know. But that's what my mother asked me: "Baby, are you ever going to get married?' "And in 1977 I said, "Yes, ma'am, as soon as they make it legal.' " He's still waiting. Now 45, Taylor is pastor of Unity Fellowship Church in New Brunswick, a 200-member congregation that is largely like he is, gay and African-American. Built eight years ago, it's the 12th church in a movement that began in a Los Angeles community in 1985. The denomination, which also has churches in Newark, Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., was founded to provide solace and a sense of community amid the horror and confusion in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Full Story from NJ.com: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-15/1258842313325500.xml&coll=1

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