While Katie has maintained a
deep commitment to the denomination of her youth, she is not comfortable
with its exclusive
stance against the ordination of openly gay and lesbian persons of faith.
As a result, Katie
has explored and fallen in love with the United Church of Christ. She
declared, “As one who traveled across the country doing diversity
education and working to help churches become more welcoming, I didn’t
know that I was in such need of the kind of welcome the UCC has extended
through the ‘God Is Still Speaking’ campaign and other genuinely inclusive
witnesses.” She is a new convert to the UCC and on November 17, 2005 she
received full standing in the UCC.