Monday, December 21, 2009

GLBT Spiritual Site Marks Third Anniversary

JesusInLove.org is adulatory its third celebration as an online ability for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) adherence and the arts. Since November 2005, it has presented a absolute eyes of GLBT adherence and tracked censorship of anomalous religious art.

“I founded JesusInLove.org because Christian address was accepting abolished to absolve abhorrence and bigotry adjoin GLBT people,” says Kittredge Cherry, a lesbian Christian author, art historian and minister. “I hoped to activate chat and alertness of love, and that has happened over the endure three years. JesusInLove.org has taken off and become important in the world.”

JesusInLove.org was launched on Nov. 17, 2005 with a account absolution blue-blooded “New Website Dares to Show Gay Jesus.” Since again it has accomplished bags of humans all over the apple and co-sponsored the aboriginal National Festival of Progressive Spiritual Art. It has developed from a individual website into an online arrangement that includes a blog, videos, e-newsletter and an angel archive.

“We accept won abounding ceremoniousness -- and we aswell get a lot of abhorrence mail from bourgeois Christians,” Cherry says. She letters that a archetypal animadversion is, “Gays are not capital in the commonwealth of Christ! They are casting into the basin of fire.”

“Right-wing Christian bloggers labeled me ‘a hyper-homosexual revisionist’ and denounced my projects as ‘garbage,’ ‘insanity,’ and ‘a arrant act aspersion and blasphemy,’” Cherry says. “The advancing religious bigotry proves that JesusInLove.org is bare now as abundant as ever. Jesus admired everyone, including animal outcasts.”

JesusInLove.org will abide to advance adherence and the arts for GLBT humans and their allies by announcement and discussing art on accelerating religious themes. Cherry categorical the afterward dreams for the future:

• Sponsor a challenge of GLBT and/or accelerating airy art with banknote prizes and a able-bodied accepted judge. Winners can be displayed online, fabricated into a calendar, even apparent at a gallery. There are abounding possibilities.

• More complete tracking and advertisement of censorship of GLBT religious and airy artistic/literary expression. This aspect of JesusInLove.org generates a lot of inquiries and interest.

• Build an annal of GLBT religious and airy images with permission from anniversary artisan for use -- acting as abettor for the artists and possibly accession fees for them. JesusInLove.org already gets abounding permission requests from humans who ambition to use the images.

The aboriginal JesusInLove.org account absolution from the aboriginal barrage is accessible in the Jesus in Love media room, alternating with added above account releases from the accomplished three years.

For added info, appointment the Jesus in Love Blog (www.jesusinlove.blogspot.com), JesusInLove.org, or acquaintance info@JesusInLove.org.

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