Sunday August 9th

By: Luis Garcia

It was an amazing day for the Equality Walkers today. We attended service at Scottsdale Bible Church on 76th street and Shea Blvd., which is the church that Cathi Herrod belongs to.

If you don’t know who Cathi Herrod is then you should become more familiar with her and the organization she leads (Center for Arizona Policy). The group was instrumental in lobbying to put Prop.102 on the ballot. After service we spoke with some of the pastors of the church. We met for over 45 min and talked about our view points on marriage and equality. Before we left the pastors lead us in prayer and invited us back for service and more dialogue any time we wanted (when I said we that mean the entire LGBT community). We then walked south to Scottsdale City Hall and had lunch on the lawn. The offices were closed since it was Sunday so we did not get to speak with city officials. A big thank you goes to Jim Vigil for providing lunch for us from the Orange Table.

We made our way down to ASU and attended mass at the All Saints Catholic Newman Center where we learned the Fr. Fred Lucca was being removed from that church because he ”preached love and acceptance for everyone”. Yes you heard me right. We learned this from a woman named Lisa who was attending mass. At first she thought we were conservative Christians who were there to protest his last sermon. It must have been our “Do you believe in marriage? I do” shirts. =) Fr. Lucci and the entire Dominican order has been removed because they are more accepting of things like LGBT people. His last sermon was amazing by the way. Fr. Lucci told the crowd that God is Love and not to let anyone tell you who to love and how to love them. Hmm sounds like something Jesus would say. The service was so inspiring that one of our walkers, who is not religious, said he would attend church if Fr. Lucci was the pastor.

Total miles walked today 15.