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North Carolina Neighborhood Unites Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Church
As a church in Asheville, N.C. held a "Rally for the Family" event, local residents united in support of their LGBTQ+ neighbors.
Greater Works Church in the community of Five Points held the event Saturday in partnership with the anti-queer South Carolina group Christian Families Against Destructive Decisions (CFADD), an organization seeking to uphold the values of the nuclear family.
...In response, Five Points community members decided to send a message of love and acceptance to local LGBTQ+ residents. Outside the church on Saturday, residents engulfed the sidewalks with colorful chalk artwork in a show of solidarity — and a dig at church leaders.
The messages featured sayings such as "Welcome to Five Point's rainbow road," "God = Love," "Love is Love," and a poster board sign reading "Hate is no way to show love."
“A lot of the groups associated with the event are very anti-LGBTQ, and there’s a lot of LGBTQ families in this neighborhood,” Micah Nielsen, who participated in drawing on the sidewalks, told WLOS.
Greater Works Church in the community of Five Points held the event Saturday in partnership with the anti-queer South Carolina group Christian Families Against Destructive Decisions (CFADD), an organization seeking to uphold the values of the nuclear family.
...In response, Five Points community members decided to send a message of love and acceptance to local LGBTQ+ residents. Outside the church on Saturday, residents engulfed the sidewalks with colorful chalk artwork in a show of solidarity — and a dig at church leaders.
The messages featured sayings such as "Welcome to Five Point's rainbow road," "God = Love," "Love is Love," and a poster board sign reading "Hate is no way to show love."
“A lot of the groups associated with the event are very anti-LGBTQ, and there’s a lot of LGBTQ families in this neighborhood,” Micah Nielsen, who participated in drawing on the sidewalks, told WLOS.
https://www.advocate.com/news/north-carolina-church-neighborhood-unites