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We Believe?
LGBTQ+ Religious Experiences in Central PA

Community & Religious Responses: Increasing Acceptance

While the LGBTQ+ religious community faced backlash from their fellow religious groups, they also increasingly won battles for acceptance. In response to Mountville, PA residents’ opposition to the MCC buying a building there, Rev. Mary Merriman, the MCC pastor at the time, and Rev. Dean Brubaker, a Church of the Brethren pastor, started “study circles” involving MCC members and those who opposed their move. In the end the community withdrew its objection.
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A September 21, 1994 Patriot News article about the Harrisburg Men’s chorus
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Patriot News December 23, 1995 letter to the editor condemning homosexuality
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A Patriot News article about MCC Harrisburg, October 10, 1992
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  • Home
  • The Long Road
    • Beginning
    • Philadelphia >
      • Philadelphia Part 2
    • Harrisburg
    • Lancaster
    • York
    • Allentown
    • Montgomery >
      • Montgomery Part 2
    • Work Continues >
      • Acknowledgments
  • With Open Hearts & Open Arms
    • Gay LIfe in Pre-Castro Cuba/Homophobia/What's In a Name? Part 1
    • What's in a Name? Part 1 Continued/UMAP/Mattachine Society
    • Leftist Gays in the US/The Mariel Boatlift
    • The Mariel Boatlift Part 2/Resettlement Camps
    • Resettlement Continued/Press Coverage
    • Immigration/What's In a Name? Part 2
    • LGBTQ+ Organizing
    • The Mariel Generation/Life in PA
    • The Eromin Center/Impact of AIDS
    • AIDS in Cuba/LGBTQ+ Rights in Cuba
    • Acknowledgements
  • We Believe?
    • Early Expereriences >
      • Praying the Gay Away
    • Coming Out
    • LGBTQ+ Groups >
      • Religious Life
      • Social Life
      • Political Life
    • Faith and Identity
    • LGBTQ+ Clergy
    • Responses: Backlash >
      • Responses: Acceptance
    • Looking Forward
  • Duty, Honor, Pride
    • Vietnam War Era >
      • Investigations
    • Post-Vietnam Experiences
    • Closing >
      • Citations
  • Other Resources