Jimmy Creech is a former

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minister who was defrocked for marrying same-sex couples. He was a founding member of the

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, an interfaith

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, co-author of the Dallas Principles, was a participant in the

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, and is the current Board Chairman of the North Carolina Social Justice Project, a progressive policy and advocacy organization dedicated to eliminating inequality in North Carolina. Creech appeared in ''

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'', a 2001 Sundance Channel documentary film about same-sex marriage. In 2007 Creech became the executive director of Faith In America, a non-profit organisation founded by Mitchell Gold, focused on educating people about religion-based bigotry. Creech's memoir, ''Adam's Gift: A Memoir of a Pastor’s Calling to Defy the Church's Persecution of Lesbians and Gays'' was published by

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in 2011. He was interviewed on '' The State of Things'' on WUNC on April 11, 2011, to discuss his new book.

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