Join Us in Service of Social Justice

The community of All Saints Beverly Hills is elated that, on Monday 15 June 2020, The United States Supreme Court, in the case of Bostock vs Clayton County, Georgia in a 6-to-3 majority declared that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender workers are protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, national origin and sex. No longer can a person be fired based on sexual orientation or gender expression. This ruling affirms what we at All Saints Beverly Hills have known to be true: through Christ all things are possible, and through the power of the Holy Spirit equality for all is now made manifest. It’s a watershed day in our nation’s history where the long march towards equality, whilst it still has a long way to go, just made a landmark come to fruition. Justice is love, equality is love. God is love.

Galatians 3:18
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man,
there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

We love because Christ first loved us. Our faith’s teachings tell us that each person is created in the image of God and therefore, has intrinsic worth and value. So why when Jesus proclaimed the good news to the poor, release to the jailed, sight to the blind, and freedom to the oppressed did he not mention the rich, the prison-owners, the sighted and the oppressors? What conclusion are we to draw from this? We at Saints Beverly Hills stand up for and with Black Lives Matter. When a church claims boldly "Black Lives Matter" at this moment, it chooses to show up intentionally against all given societal values of supremacy, superiority, and the inherent dangers of complacency. By insisting, without hesitation, on the intrinsic worth of all human beings, Jesus taught his disciples to love publicly in a world of inequality. We live out the love of God justly by publicly saying #BlackLivesMatter. It’s where the Word and the deed go hand-in-hand.