Gay group reaches out to Lakewood Church

Topix Gay News  May 11 08

The son of evangelical Tammy Faye Bakker Messner will spend his first Mother's Day weekend since her death in Houston, waiting to hear from Lakewood Church Pastor Joel Osteen. Jay Bakker, a high-profile supporter of Soulforce - a group that fights religious and political oppression of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders - wants Osteen to join the nontraditional families at a picnic Saturday and welcome them to church on Sunday. "I want to celebrate my mother's life," said Bakker, pastor of Revolution New York City, "and help spread the message she lived and preached. We need to stop thinking of ourselves as 'us' and 'them. Full story...

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