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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyJuly 27th, 2016
Perry’s life had always been difficult. His bootlegger father died when Perry was twelve. His mother married an alcoholic who reduced the family to poverty and was physically abusive. Troy ran away from home and stayed with relatives, who introduced him to Pentecostalism. He became a preacher and self-styled “religious fanatic” at age fifteen. At nineteen-year-old, he married a Church of God pastor’s daughter and became the pastor of a CoG church in Jolliet, Illinois — all this despite knowing that he was gay and was sexually active with other men. He merely told himself that it was a phase and that he wasn’t really gay. After all, it was impossible to be both gay and Christian, his superiors in the church had reassured him. But when the elders at the church he was pastoring found out, they forced him to resign.
The couple moved to California, where they joined the Church of God of Prophecy, another Pentecostal denomination. While there, his wife found hidden in a mattress a copy of Donald Webster Cory’s groundbreaking The Homosexual In America (Sep 18). That led to an immediate divorce, with his wife taking their two young sons with her.. That meant that he had to explain things to his COGOP superiors. They acted as CoG had: they kicked him out.
Perry spent the next several years, which included a stint in the Army, trying to figure out what he was: was he gay, or was he Christian? In 1967, he tried to kill himself after breaking up with a boyfriend. In 1968, he was on a date at a gay bar near Long Beach called The Patch when when police decided to randomly arrest two of the bar’s patrons (Aug 17) . His date, broken and demoralized by the experience, decided that no one cared about gay people, including God. That’s when Perry decided it was time to show that young man, and all gay people, differently. He placed an ad in The Advocate announcing a worship service designed for gays in Los Angeles, and twelve people turned up on that first Sunday. That would be the genesis for the Metropolitan Community Church, the only Christian denomination founded specifically to address the spiritual needs of LGBT people. MCC now has 250 congregations in 23 countries around the world.
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