In response to the vandalism, members of Two Rivers Church gave the club money for repairs. It’s the second window in the past few weeks that vandals have targeted. Surveillance cameras captured a front window of the club being vandalized with rocks just after 4 a.m. “Churches don’t necessarily open themselves up to the gay community and it’s just especially touching when a church opens their arms and their hearts to the community that not all churches embrace,” said Larson. Larson, who was brought to tears by the act of goodwill from Two Rivers Church, says he was raised in a church, but lost his religion because he felt condemned. “The first thing they said (is), ‘We’re from Two Rivers Church’, and that just made me have a renewed a sense of humanity and belief in organized religion,” said Marty Larson, of the Blazing Saddle. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĭES MOINES, Iowa - A recent gesture by a local church had a profound impact on those at the historic gay bar and nightclub in Des Moines’ East Village. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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