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I've been to many churches in my life. The church I remember most fondly was the First Presbyterian Church (http://www.fpcnyc.org/) in NYC in the late 90's. I was a paid chorister there. It was a big beautiful old stone church with a long history and an incredible music program, whose Scottish pastor gave inspiring intelligent sermons advocating for the poor and outcast. I was in my twenties and fully welcomed there. First Church in New York was a revelation to me for I had been to various churches in my teens (the 80's) here in Kentucky but recoiled at the hateful ignorant lies being spread by these churches about gay people like me and the dumb pseudo-religious arguments being passed around by these churches about basic fundamental rock solid facts of science, like evolution - the basis of modern biology. My intelligence was insulted as was my sense of fairness and what was moral and right. I think something like that is happening now for more and more young people, generally.