Many in the (United Church of Christ) can “understand and appreciate her insistence that she must follow a God of love, justice and inclusion.”

The United Church of Christ is trying to get Anne Rice to join its flock after the Interview with the Vampire author announced her highly-publicized decision to “quit being Christian” this past week.

Just days after Rice’s announcement, the 1.1-million member UCC launched the “You’d Like the UCC, Anne Rice” campaign on Facebook to offer support for the acclaimed author and to introduce her and others to the historically liberal church body.

“Many of us who are Christian share Anne Rice’s values of inclusion and reason,” remarked UCC’s communications director, the Rev. J. Bennett Guess, who initiated the Facebook campaign. “It’s important that she and others know that a church like the UCC exists.”

This past Wednesday, Rice declared in her Facebook fan page that she “quit being Christian” after finding it “simply impossible … to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group.”

“For ten …years, I’ve tried,” the 68-year-old author wrote. “I’ve failed. I’m an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”

After having grown up in a Catholic home as a child back in New Orleans, Rice came to reject her faith when she was 18 to gain freedom and search for knowledge.

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