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"Churches" and Groups That Target Gays

St. Elijah's Orthodox Church - Encino, CA. This is apparently a gay cult. Its home page states: "A traditional Ukrainian Orthodox Church dedicated to the Salvation of all who enter our life without discrimination regarding sexual orientation, gender, race or national origin."

The Western Rite Orthodox Catholic Church - Nashua, NH. This statement tells it all: "'Traditional' in our Old Catholic Faith and Sacramental Life, yet... 'Progressive' where it matters the most, in pastoral ministry and outreach. All are welcome in the WROCC without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, financial or social standing." (Remember, same sex activity is condemned as a sin by Christ's Holy Body, the Orthodox Church.)

AXIOS - Eastern and Orthodox Gay and Lesbian Christians - Somewhere in the United Kingdom. (This link is dead. The organization in the UK may have been disbanded.)

Byzantine-American™ Orthodox Church of Central Arizona - Phoenix, AZ. This group's web site states: "We reach out to the disenfranchised, the ones that other churches look at and disregard. Gays, lesbians, transgendered people are a primary focus, but we minister to anyone that other churches have cast out, be they black, white, red, yellow, purple with green polka-dots, disabled, differently-abled, whatever and whoever wants to have a church home with us, and wants to praise Jesus. In other words, God's Lost Coins."

AXIOS! AXIOS! AXIOS! - This organization is associated with the religious group immediately above. The web page states: "Yes, Jesus is worthy of all praise! Welcome to the website of the Phoenix [Arizona] Chapter of Axios, an organization for Orthodox and Eastern Christian Gays, Lesbians, and Transgendered People. Who are we? Axios is an international lay organization. The national president is Nick Zymaris. The Phoenix Chapter is provisional at the moment, and is facilitated by Bp. +BASIL (Isaacks) and Archimandrite Brendan-Benedict."

Orthodox Catholic Church in America - Little is known about this gay jurisdiction, including where it is headquartered. It does offer all Holy Sacraments and ordains gays to be priests and priestesses. Parishes claiming to be part of this group include:

St. Luke The Physician Church - Gulfport, FL (Rt. Rev. Donald J. Herbert)

St. Aelred’s Orthodox Parish - Lacey, WA. (Rev. Robert L. Withrow) No known web site. This abomination's primary apostolate is to the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and trans-gendered community, and offers the Sacrament of Matrimony to same-sex couples. They are an open parish that meets in Tacoma.

Fullness of Life Community Church, St. Oscar Romero Orthodox Ministries - Garland-Sachse, TX. (This is the parish church of the web-famous Rev. Tony Begonja and wife, the Rev. Fran Begonja. Tony's web site is either enlightening or depressing, depending on which side of the bed you got out on. See: http://www.ind-movement.org/). Tony claims that his ministry is "Progressive · Inclusive · Eucharistic · Sacramental · Pastoral · Scriptural · Spirit-Filled · Independent Catholic · Alternative Catholic · Autocephalous Orthodox" all at the same time.

Pride Church International: An Orthodox Catholic Community - Somewhere in Florida or North Carolina. This homosexual cult's home page contains the "Rainbow Award" emblem purportedly given by a group calling itself Gay America. The webmaster claims to be a member of the "International Guild of Gay Webmasters. This faction uses something called the Divine liturgy of Bishop Serapion which, it claims, is a fourth century Egyptian work.The cults main "clergyman," Vladimir Sergius II," is also known as Floyd Wilson Sehorn, and he claims to be the former first hierarch (no reason given for his deposition) of the American Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of North Carolina. Mr. Wilson, aka Sergius II, claims to have been consecrated by the Orthodox Church of Christ of New York, Mid-Atlantic Diocese. See entry for The Orthodox Christian Fellowship of Mercy.