Cortland Queer Church welcomes all (if respectful) – Cortland Standard 2018

Joe McIntyre/staff photographer – Cortland Protestant/interfaith chaplain Rachel Ditch, left, and her partner Courtney Stafford, right, sing together Thursday at the Interfaith Center in Cortland.

Cortland Standard / October 29, 2018

By RENÉE K. GADOUA
Contributing Writer

On a recent Sunday evening, two local couples discussed faith, relationships and LGBTQ identity over a dinner of soup and sushi rolls. The casual conversation at Wild Ginger Asian Restaurant on Main Street, Cortland, included the challenges of defning sex and gender beyond the binary (he and she), religious language that’s hurtful to  LGBTQ people (the Catholic Church’s teaching that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered”) and how gay people of faith and partners (dating apps).

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