LGBT-friendly Christians have taken their 'I'm
Sorry' campaign to Chicago Pride since 2010.

It was an unlikely sight: a group of Christians at Chicago Pride parade stood in front of protesters with signs apologizing to the LGBT community. The “I’m Sorry” campaign, created by the Marin Foundation , was conceived as a means for Christians to apologize to the ways their fellow believers have caused harm.
The foundation has become a fixture in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood, working with both conservative and progressive religious entities to create safer spaces for LGBT people. The foundation's approach has received both praise and harsh criticisms from both LGBT and Christian activists. Its work has also won awards, invitations to the White House, and contract work with the United Nations.
The “I’m Sorry” campaign started in 2010 at Chicago Pride and since has spread to multiple cities, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, and even Sydney. “We view this campaign as our commitment to making the first step towards
relational reconciliation in a tangible way,” says the Marin Foundation’s website in explaining the campaign.

The campaign took off in 2010 after a photo of Andrew Marin, founder of the Marin Foundation, went viral; being shared over 34 million times. The photo was of Marin hugging a paradegoer who was in his underwear and Marin’s blog post “I hugged a Man in His Underwear. And I’m Proud.” told the story of a straight, white, male Christian being sorry for his former homophobic ways. The picture made the #1 spot on Buzzfeed’s “21 Pictures That’ll Restore Your Faith In Humanity.”
Four years later, the campaign is going strong with a record number of participants. “In the midst of our country’s cultural shift where many, including evangelical Christians, are moving toward a more progressive and, I would contend, Christ-centered understanding in discussions surrounding the intersection of faith, gender, and sexuality — there is a need for some folks to acknowledge the harm done toward the LGBTQ community in the name of
God and religion,” Marin Foundation executive
director Michael Kimpan tells The Advocate. “The 'I’m Sorry' campaign provides such an opportunity, to offer an apology and reparations face to face, building bridges of reconciliation between those who once spoke words of hate and intolerance and now desire to speak words and actions of love.”
Kimpan wrote a refection piece on the experience on his personal site, saying LGBT people passing by protesters were challenging him to be a better Christian. The parade participants marched by protesters and responded to the hate with “We still love you!” and “Even though you hate us, we love
you!”

Despite the hate-filled protesters, Kimpan said, love prevailed because love is and always will be louder. See photos below and on the following pages:























www.advocate.com/politics/religion/2014/07/05/photos-christians-say-sorry-chicago-pride?page=0,1

Bunch of sinners..hell awaits you

Wow this is lovely

Yooguyz: Wow this is lovely

Hello love, Hope you're good?

cbrass: Bunch of sinners..hell awaits you

When last did you understand a tn u read in the bible?

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You are going to hell first for telling someone else that hell is their final destination.Stop Judging.

Cyrus Levi: When last did you understand a tn u read in the bible?

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You are going to hell first for telling someone else that hell is their final destination.Stop Judging.

This is why sin will always abound, where did I judge here nw. This what people keep saying so as to continue in their sins rather than ask forgiveness and repent of it.
Let me tell you something, even if you are not LGBT but if you support them in anyway you are partaking in their sins, and as I said ealier HELL AWAITS YOU TOO if you donnot repent

God has asked us to live in peace with our fellow human being. This is really worth emulating

On rapture day,we wld be shocked when God wil find us wanting for lack of love.

GSKing:

Hello love, Hope you're good?

am good. Thumbs up for your recent threads keep it up.

Yooguyz:
am good. Thumbs up for your recent threads keep it up.

Thanks love, I see you're still doing your JW/WT thing

cbrass:

This is why sin will always abound, where did I judge here nw. This what people keep saying so as to continue in their sins rather than ask forgiveness and repent of it.
Let me tell you something, even if you are not LGBT but if you support them in anyway you are partaking in their sins, and as I said ealier HELL AWAITS YOU TOO if you donnot repent

You say again,in Capital fronts-HELL AWAITS YOU TOO.

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Guy,Sky Daddy has cleared you a mini-flat in Hell.

GSKing:

Thanks love, I see you're still doing your JW/WT thing

LOL.

@GSKing, what do you think about my profile picture?

Yooguyz: @GSKing, what do you think about my profile picture?

Is that you?

Dayuuuuuummm!

sexy as hell!

I love you and i wish you the best! God loves you i hope you seek him.

GSKing:



Is that you?

Dayuuuuuummm!

sexy as hell!

LOL
not me really! Looks very much like me, the eyes, nose, skin color, everything. Except for the side-beards.

When my distant cousin saw the pix, she thought i had grown a side-beard overnight

Yooguyz:

LOL
not me really! Looks very much like me, the eyes, nose, skin color, everything. Except for the side-beards.

When my distant cousin saw the pix, she thought i had grown a side-beard overnight

You're this cute? Pictures or you know nah...

GSKing:

You're this cute? Pictures or you know nah...

Not on a forum like nairaland, not when i have blood-sucking-murderous-hatefilled monikers like BERNIMOOREE, BARISTARD, and co after my neck.

I don't want to wake up one morning and see my face on those homophobic newspapers.

Abeg i no won take risk.

Yooguyz:

Not on a forum like nairaland, not when i have blood-sucking-murderous-hatefilled monikers like BERNIMOOREE, BARISTARD, and co after my neck.

I don't want to wake up one morning and see my face on those homophobic newspapers.

Abeg i no won take risk.

lolsss, unlike me, i live in nija, but can post my pix here if i so desire, fúcks on nl can't do anything about it

zeb04: God has asked us to live in peace with our fellow human being. This is really worth emulating

On rapture day,we wld be shocked when God wil find us wanting for lack of love.

Please don't mock God

Cyrus Levi: You say again,in Capital fronts-HELL AWAITS YOU TOO.

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Guy,Sky Daddy has cleared you a mini-flat in Hell.

Have you been to Hell to a mini-flat has been cleared for me?

cbrass:

Have you been to Hell to a mini-flat has been cleared for me?

Ds one thinks am smiling