Westview Community Church welcomes Gay community

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Posted by Administrator in Religious/Spirtual on December 17, 2009  |  0 Comments More from this author  |

As Westview Community Church set to offer its second session of the Living Waters program, which offers homosexual individuals counseling to become straight, Manhattan finds itself in a debate over whether such a program should be offered. Aside from conflicting religious views, therapists and others disagree about whether the program works and if providing such a service would only confuse and damage people seeking help.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate because it makes an assumption that there is something wrong with someone that has to be fixed,” said Rev. R. Kent Cormack, pastor and teacher at First Congregational United Church of Christ.

Cormack, who is openly gay and in a same sex-marriage with the church organist, has been a pastor at First Congregational since 2000. He said his church performs same-sex marriages and encourages its congregation to recognize these unions.

Cormack said not all churches share the view First Congregational holds, but he takes great pride in his church’s history of welcoming Christians of all sexual orientations, genders and races.

He said his church was specifically formed in Manhattan to support abolitionism, and he likes to think his congregation is on the forefront of people’s individual liberty.

Read full article at Kansas State Collegian