The Church of the Trinity Metropolitan Community Church has a message it wants to deliver amid the controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A’s anti-gay contributions. And it’s that marriage equality will one day be a reality and MCC’s around the world conduct same-sex weddings.
The Sarasota church held its “Chick-fil-Gay” event on Wednesday, Aug. 29, by hosting a community dinner and screening the film Pursuit of Equality.
Rev. Charles Tigard, who has pastored the church for two years, invited the entire Sarasota-area community in order to start a dialogue about the need for marriage equality in the United States.
“This is about families and about couples,” Tigard told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. “There are real problems in this state when it comes to benefits and inheritance. It’s an issue for all of us.”
The idea for a community dinner was born out of the recent controversy surrounding the fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, who’s chief operating officer Dan Cathy admitted was “guilty as charged” when it came to supporting anti-gay groups like the National Organization for Marriage and Exodus International.
