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Freda Smith: Bio Contact Purple Grass.
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About Freda Smith .
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Gallery Rev.
Elder Freda Smith is ...
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--The former Vice-Moderator of the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches; Liaison to MCC churches throught the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britian.
Pastor of Metropolitan Community Church of Sacramento: 1972--2005..
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--A political activist in California, known for tireless advocacy working for women's and minority rights.
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--Author of "Dear Dora Dangerous/Derek Diesel Dyke" a narrative poem read to members of the California State Legislature.
Sometimes credited for the tie breaking vote to pass California's "Consenting Adults Act," decriminalizing LGBT relationships in California.
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Recognized by the Sacramento History Museum as "Woman of Courage,".
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Named "Woman of the Year" by the California State Legislature in 1996.
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Licensed by the State of California as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC 31821)..
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--Founder and Orignal Case Manager of Sacramento, California's "Breaking Barriers:" a HIV Prevention, Care, and Advocacy Program.
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--Performed first legal same sex wedding in the United States: Rev.
Freda Smith with Rev.
Robert Sirico performed the first legal same sex wedding in the United States in 1975..
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--Since 1974 in a committed relationship with Kathleen Meadows...39 years and counting....
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MCC History.
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Freda Smith entered the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches in 1971..
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--She first met the Reverend Elder Troy Perry on the steps of the Capitol of the State of California.
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--Both were speakers for a rally to pass the "Consenting Adults Law," to decriminalize gay relationships in California.
(Freda's name has ofte been spelled phonetically by the press: "Freida," "Frieda.").
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Front Cover Frieda Smith Tells It Like It Is August 28, 1971 Speaking for Our Lives: Historic Speeches and Rhetoric for Gay and Lesbian for Gay and Lesbian Rights edited by Robert B.
Marks Ridinger.
This speech was the last one given in Sacramento, California, at the end of the march on the California state capitol on June 25, 1971, led by Reverend Troy Perry to support the AB437, a state bill introduced by Willie Brown to legalize homosexual acts in private between consenting adults.
Contemporary reportage by The Advocate describes this as one of the two most militant addresses given at the rally.
Speaking for Our LivesHistoric Speeches and Rhetoric (1892-2000) By Robert B Ridinger.
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--During a lobbying effort for the passage of the bill, Freda read her narrative poem:""Dear Dora/Dangerous Derek Diesel Dyke," to a select group of legislators.
Lt.
Governor Merv Dymally.
Dymally was visibly moved by the poem and stated that the poem had ""opened his eyes."" Later, Dymally historically broke the tie that had deadlocked the California Senate to pass California's "Consenting Adults Law: AB437.
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--instrumental in spearheading the revision of UFMCC Bylaws to include women at every level of ministry .
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Front Cover.”Melissa M.
Wilcox - 2009 - Queer Women and Religious Individualism - Page 29 "Like any new religious movement, the UFMCC has had growing pains.
One case involved dealing with sexism: in 1973 Freda Smith, the first woman to be ordained in MCC and at that time still the only woman minister, single-handedly convinced the denomination to change the pronouns in its by-laws from “he” to “he and she..
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--Licensed to the UFMCC ministry in 1972...
Ordained in 1973..
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--First elected to the MCC Governing Board of Elders in 1973..
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--Re-elected as elder for five more terms..
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--Served as World Church Extension Elder, liaison to Europe, Canada, Australia, and U.S.
Districts, and as Vice-Moderator of the UFMCC..
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--Appeared nationally on the Tomorrow Show in the U.S., on Canada AM, and on local broadcasts where she frequently debated right-wing religious political advocates..
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MCC Years .
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First woman ordained to ministry by MCC.
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First woman elected to the MCC Board of Elders.
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When Freda entered MCC, the leadership was overwhelmingly male.
As a feminist Freda went to work encouraging women to become active and to change church by-laws to include women in all leadership positions.
At the 1973, General Conference in Atlanta, GA, Freda stood to individually amend every gender pronoun in the UFMCC By-laws to include both men and women..
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Front CoverLike any new religious movement, the UFMCC has had growing pains.
One case involved dealing with sexism: in 1973 Freda Smith, the first woman to be ordained in MCC and at that time still the only woman minister, single-handedly convinced the denomination to change the pronouns in its by-laws from “he” to “he and she.”Melissa M.
Wilcox - 2009 - Queer Women and Religious Individualism - Page 29.
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MCC ultimately became a leader in Christian social action, championing the ordination of women, inclusive language, and a theology of inclusion for all people..
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Freda became the first woman ordained to the UFMCC ministry and was first elected to the Board of Elders in 1973.
She was re-elected as elder for five more terms (20 years) during which time she represented the Church as liaison to Europe, Canada, Australia, and U.S.
Districts.
She also served as Vice-Moderator of the UFMCC.
She appeared nationally on the Tomorrow Show in the U.S., on Canada AM, and on local broadcasts where she frequently debated right-wing religious political advocates..
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In addition to visiting and encouraging nearly every MCC church group in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Mexico and great Britain during her tenure, Freda simultaneously served as Senior Pastor of MCC Sacramento from 1972 to 2005 when she retired to become Director of the Reverend Elder Freda Smith Ministries and an activist/writer to preserve the early history of the LGBTQI Christian Church..
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Performed first legal same sex wedding in the United States.
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Rev.
Freda with Robert A.
Sirico performed the first legal same sex wedding in the United States in 1975.
Anthony Corbett Sullivan met Richard Frank Adams at the Closet Bar in Los Angeles in 1971 and within a few months they were living together.
Sullivan, an Australian citizen had been traveling on a tourist visa, and by 1974 he had exhausted all his legal options to stay in the United States.
It was at this time that Sullivan and Adams decided to fight for their right to continue to live together in the United States.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initiated deportation proceedings in April 1975, but granted Sullivan a continuance to file for political asylum on the grounds that he would face persecution if he returned to Australia.
During the continuance it came to Sullivan and Adams' attention that marriage licenses were being granted to same-sex couples in Colorado; they traveled to Colorado and were married on April 21, 1975, by Robert A.
Sirico and Freda Smith, both ordained ministers of the Universal Fellowship of the Metropolitan Community Church (UFMCC).
Adams then petitioned the INS for spousal status for Sullivan; while the petition was being considered, the INS adjourned Sullivan's deportation hearing.
When the deportation hearing resumed in February 1980, Sullivan sought its suspension, claiming that deportation would cause extreme hardship to himself and Adams.
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) rejected Sullivan's hardship claims and refused to consider Adams to be "a qualifying relative to whom hardship may be shown under the express provisions of the statue." Their lawyer, David M.
Brown, appealed the BIA's ruling in Adams v.
Howerton..
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On September 30, 1985, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the INS the decision to deny Adams' visa petition, holding that, even if legal, the marriage would not meet the standards of federal immigration law.
The court also affirmed the ruling in Adams v.
Howerton rejecting Sullivan's hardship claims.
Sullivan was ordered to leave the United States.
However, after traveling in Europe the couple secretly returned to the United States, where Sullivan, a writer, continues (2004) to live illegally with Adams, who works at a law firm, in an undisclosed location..
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Richard Adams, Pioneer for Binational Couples and Marriage Equality, .
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by Karen Ocamb on December 19, 2012.
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http://lgbtpov.frontiersla.com/2012/12/19/richard-adams-pioneer-for-binational-couples-and-marriage-equality-dies-at-65/.
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After the historic Nov.
5 election where the LGBT community finally turned the tide on marriage rights for same sex couples, scholar Nathaniel Frank explained the gay campaigns’ success thusly: “Its message was ‘love, commitment, family,’ with no mention of rights or benefits.” But for gay binational couples like Los Angeles-based Richard Adams and Australian-born Tony Sullivan, love and the benefits of equal rights have always been inextricably and deeply personally intertwined.
Neither the Immigration and Naturalization Service nor the US Justice Department could tear them asunder – but death did.
On Monday, Dec.
17, Richard Adams died after a brief illness.
He was 65 and for 41 of those years, he profoundly loved and fought for the right to live with Tony Sullivan..
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Board of Elders Members: March on Washington:.
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Nancy Wilson, Clerk; Don Eastman, Treasurer;.
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Jean White, World Extension;.
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Troy Perry, Moderator; Freda Smith, Vice Moderator..
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Biography .
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Freda Smith was born Mary Alfreda Smith on November 22, 1935, to Alfred and Mary Smith in Pocatello, Idaho..
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Alfred and Mary had married while at college in Enid Oklahoma, and moved to Idaho shortly before Freda was born.
(Alfred was 21 years old and Mary was 20 years old).
This was during the depths of the Depression.
Alfred found work as a mechanic at the Union Pacific Railroad.
Later he would be employed as a language teacher (German, Spanish, French, Italian) and Mary would fulfill her early aptitude and education in math and science working for the U.S.
Navy..
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The early years were difficult.
Three children – Freda, Lydia and Alfred, Jr.
– were born in the first four years of marriage.
The small family moved to a remote rural area south of Pocatello.
They were accompanied by Alfred's grandmother, Nazarene preacher Lydia Harriet Smith, who had rescued Alfred from a Denver orphanage and raised him in the small churches where she served.
The Nazarene Church and its ministry was the focus of Freda's early life..
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Baby picture with great-grandmother, a Nazarene preacher.
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Rural southeastern Idaho, in the late thirties and through the war years, was largely a LDS (Mormon) settlement.
The Smith family was the only "Gentile" family "south of town." However all families – both Mormon and Nazarene – were church-goers whose religion dictated the customs of life..
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As Nazarenes, the Smith family (shepherded by Freda's great- grandmother) avoided liquor, smoking, cards, dancing, profanity, and any "near occasion of sin." Mormons danced, while to Nazarenes dancing was a.
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Nazarenes drank coffee, which to Mormons violated the "Word of Wisdom." Aside from these and other surface differences in religious practices and beliefs, the rural southern Idaho community members were united against sin in any form and for chastity, holiness, and a strong work ethic.
They had no apparent knowledge or understanding of alternate lifestyles..
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Freda attended church Sunday mornings and nights and the Wednesday evening mid-week services, as well as weekly home prayer meetings and a home atmosphere of hymns, Bible study, and prayers.
The Nazarene theology embraced salvation and sanctification (the second work of grace), eschewed worldliness (i.e.
movies, etc.), yet presented a joyful, optimistic faith and an abundance of musical celebration.
Altar calls were regular Sunday night occasions where kneelers struggled against temptation and despair, wept, and were blessed by rapturous renewals of faith and a sense of the undeniable presence of God.
These themes of great spiritual striving, the poetical thrust of Biblical drama presented in word and song, and the sense of a divine providence became a sacred "calling" very early in Freda's life.
She determined that she would either be a preacher or a poet.Just before starting elementary school, Pocatello, Idaho .
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Freda entered the first grade in 1941, shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
The war years had a profound effect on her as they had on so many that experienced the heroism, and sacrifice of the times..
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Following the war years and the death of Freda's great- grandmother, the family began to drift from the Nazarene Church and she independently left to become a member of the Salvation Army.
The fire and passion of the Salvation Army, preaching "with heart to God and hand to [man] humanity," coupled with the familiar hymns and the salvation/sanctification struggle for souls and a compassion for the lost, the least, and the forgotten, stirred her early "call" and she began the process of becoming an officer..
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It was also at this time that Freda realized her lesbianism.
True to her early training and upbringing she entered into spiritual battle, seeking to overcome her nature and to find a state of sanctification where all of these feelings of love would be taken from her.
During this struggle she left Idaho to live with her aunt and uncle in Texas.
While there, she read every book in the library she could find on the subjects of homosexuality, lesbianism, inversion, sodomy, and other names given to the "disorder." Each book seemed more condemning and frightening than the one before.
There was no account of a sane, healthy gay or lesbian person; all were criminal, insane, perverted degenerates.
Homosexuality during the early 1950s was universally condemned as criminal and sinful, as well as a mental illness.
Freda spent long evenings on her knees at home and at the altar in the Salvation Army Citadel where she worshiped.
Nothing changed her heart..
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Freda now looks back and sees that God was in the prayer-answering business.
However, God did not want to change her heart.
God wanted to use Freda's passion – along with the passion of others who were similarly struggling – to change the church and the world..
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Leaving Texas, Freda returned briefly to Pocatello for a term at Idaho State College (now ISU) majoring in speech/journalism.
She was still praying for a "cure" and was a passionate speaker and a part of the debate team as she had been in high school.
She had a strong calling to preach and like Jeremiah there was a fire in her bones: "Then I said, ‘I will not make mention of [him]God , nor speak any more in [his] God's name.
But [his] God's word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.’” (Jeremiah 20:9 KJV).
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However, the fire in her bones ultimately gave over to a realization that she could no more change her orientation than .
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she could change her height, eye color, or humanity..
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Following the biggest gay witch hunt in U.S.
history in Boise (1955-56), she determined to leave Idaho and find "others like her." In California, Freda found the gay community and became a closet Christian.
As she once hid her lesbian identity from the church , now she hid her sense of God's calling upon her life from her friends in the gay community..
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Passionate about human rights and activism, Freda was active in Bobby Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and, after his assassination, decided to "come out" publicly as a lesbian as well as a feminist and to work to change laws in California.
This was "before Stonewall," and very few members of the gay community were open about their orientation.
Homosexuality was a criminal offense in California, as well as condemned by the church and diagnosed as a mental disease.
Freda became co-chair of the California Committee for Sexual Law Reform and worked for the passage of Assemblyman Willie Brown's consenting adult law.
It was during this lobbying effort that she wrote her narrative poem Dear Dora/Dangerous Derek Diesel Dyke which she read to a group of legislators which included Lt.
Merv Dymally who voted to break the Senate deadlock to pass the legislation..
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Early in the law reform lobbying effort, Freda learned of the Metropolitan Community Church which had been founded by the Rev.
Troy Perry in 1968.
Realizing that she could fulfill the calling to preach and to minister which had never left her spirit, Freda became active in MCC..
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