KACI AND HOLLY CLARK-PORTER
Kaci and Holly Clark-Porter are redefining what it means to be a power couple. Married for three years, the two were recently jointly ordained as ministers at Delaware´s First and Central Presbyterian Church. According to USA Today, they may be the first same-sex couple to ever be ordained together. What made the moment even more unique was that it happened a few days after the Presbyterian Church began permitting same-sex marriages. Kaci and Holly are also making change via The Big Gay Church (biggaychurch.org), which operates at First and Central. It gives queer folks-so frequently alienated by religious communities-a place to feel welcome. “So many people are forced to settle for careers they can hardly abide,” says Kaci. “Yet I go to work every day knowing that there is nowhere else I´d rather be, no others I´d rather work with, nothing else I´d rather be doing and no one else I´d rather serve. It is deeply gratifying, especially as a queer clergyperson. So often we watch the jobs we want go to straight folk, who we know, for many churches, were the ´safer choice´ as a pastor. I didn´t have to settle and neither did my congregation-our relationship is genuine and mutual, and no pastor anywhere could ask for more than that!” -GH
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