Now here is something I thought we would literally NEVER see. Sure, there was controversy and debate, but the fact that it actually happened... well, some might just call it a miracle. Thanks, HRC!

I thought I would leave you all with this piece of good news on the social progress front before heading out for the weekend. Have a good one!

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Rift Over Gay Unions Reflects Battle New to Black Churches - washingtonpost.com

Never in a "million years" did Robert Renix think he would find a Baptist church that would accept someone like him: a black Baptist gay man. Never mind one that would allow what happened one Saturday last month, when a tuxedo-clad Renix stood in front of the pulpit at Covenant Baptist Church in Anacostia, exchanging vows with his partner, Antonio Long.

Covenant Baptist works with the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization, on outreach to black churches and is the only Baptist church listed with the city's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Affairs as being welcoming to homosexuals.