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# Why ‘Pride Matters’ to Rev Michael Hydes
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/why-pride-matters-to-rev-michael-hydes/
- Published: 2014-03-30T13:46:56.000Z
- Updated: 2014-03-30T13:46:56.000Z
- Description: Rev Michael Hydes from the Metropolitan Community Church, Brighton explains why Pride Matters to him. “Pride is the ability to hold your head up high. It’s a movement of the heart, a healthy ego expressing itself, an acknowledgement of worth that springs from within. It should be developed by the fa
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## Rev Michael Hydes from the Metropolitan Community Church, Brighton explains why *Pride Matters* to him.

![Rev Michael Hydes, Metropolitan Community Church Brighton](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/web-600155.jpg)

Rev Michael Hydes, Metropolitan Community Church Brighton

*“Pride is the ability to hold your head up high. It’s a movement of the heart, a healthy ego expressing itself, an acknowledgement of worth that springs from within. It should be developed by the family, a part of growing up in a community that supports and nourishes you. Yet often it is starved and beaten down. Feeling the need to conform to some other image the true self hides behind a façade, feeling unworthy and rejected. There is no opportunity for pride, just an inwardly focused prejudice that gnaws away at your identity each and every day.*

*“PRIDE is the awakening of self. It is a family of choice acknowledging its own. It is a wider community accepting and supporting.. The ego is nourished and lifted up. There is no need to conform, just an invitation to celebrate. From hues of grey to a rainbow of colour, the ego expands and comes to understand the eternal truth; that it is perfect just the way it is. In confidence it stretches out, flexes its wings, and flies.”*

Kind Regards

Rev. Michael Hydes