There is plenty time to party and celebrate this weekend at Piedmont Park and local bars as part of Atlanta Pride weekend, but there is also a spiritual side to the weekend, too, as part of Stride Into Pride events.
Integrity Atlanta holds its 25th annual Gay Pride Eucharist on Wednesday, Oct. 10, from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at All Saints' Episcopal Church. The church is located at 634 West Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30308.
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled 6-1 today in favor of the national Episcopal Church in a property dispute case with the oldest church in Georgia that broke away from the national church after it affirmed its first openly gay bishop.
Savannah Christ Church, founded in 1733 and known as the "Mother Church of Georgia," joined the Episcopal Church in 1823. In 2007, four years after the Episcopal Church USA affirmed Gene Robinson as its first openly gay bishop, 87 percent of the Savannah congregation voted to break off from the national Episcopal Church and instead join an Anglican diocese in Uganda.