Open and Affirming

"This church [...] declares itself open to all persons, and affirming of each person without regard to race, sex, color, physical or mental abilities, sexual orientation or gender identity." -RUCC O&A Statement

Genesis 1:27, 31

So God created humankind in his image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good.

Matthew 22:37-40

[Jesus] said to him, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

Galations 3:28

There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 12:14-15, 24-26

Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

[...] But God has so arranged the body, [...] that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.