As we celebrate the final day of HRC’s “7 Days to a Better Financial You” campaign, in less than one hour, a group of GLBT ministers and faith leaders will converge on the Atlanta Regional Postal Facility in Hapeville, GA to raise awareness and call attention to the tax inequity faced by their gay parishioners.
Dr. Cindi Love (pictured below), an ordained minister in the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) and the current executive director of MCC worldwide, will be among the clergy taking a stand against the unfair tax laws at the Hapeville post office this morning. She knows first-hand the legal and financial struggles her GLBT congregants continually face throughout their lives to lead productive lives (Southern Voice):
I have seen firsthand the struggles that marriage inequality causes. In my capacity as an ordained minister and executive director of Metropolitan Community Churches world-wide, I regularly witness the effects economic disparities have on the emotional and spiritual lives of LGBT people. These gaps are never more obvious than in those situations where we find ourselves with a loved one in the emergency room at the hospital, at the Red Cross shelter, on the phone when a lay-off occurs, when a chronic health condition dictates a move to assisted living, at the funeral home or when a break up in relationship occurs.
As a person of deep Christian faith, I am often frustrated by the unnecessary and unfair burdens we place on LGBT families, particularly in hospitals and courts when they are already forced to cope with traumatic life events. As difficult as these situations are, I find myself even more frustrated by the denial and ignorance of the economic plight LGBT families face. We have to stop perpetuating stereotypes that all LGBT people are wealthy latte drinkers living in affluent neighborhoods. We come from all different economic and racial brackets, with all different kinds of families. And, as with all injustice, when economic discrimination is allowed to stand, it is the LGBT families where members are earning minimum wages, don’t have access to health insurance, and are supporting children who shoulder the largest burden.
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