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** The [[wikipedia:Metropolitan Community Church|Metropolitan Community Church]], as an international Protestant Christian denomination with a specific outreach to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities, was founded by [[wikipedia:Troy Perry|Rev. Troy Deroy Perry Jr.]] a few years after he was forced out of the [[wikipedia:Church of God of Prophecy|Church of God of Prophecy]] for being gay.
* As parodied in ''[[Monty Python's Life of Brian]]'', political groups (especially radical fringe groups) are very splinter-prone. Just for fun, try to find a list of your local political parties and see how many different leftist groups there are. Also happens on the far right.
** It's not just political parties. Any organisation which tries to bring together multiple disparate groups – each of which has its own strongly-held beliefs − is prone to this. It's a wonder that the average LGBT
** It's not just third parties, either. In 1824, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote in the presidential election as one of four candidates running under the banner of the Democratic-Republican Party, but the Electoral College was split. The party elite in Congress ended up awarding the presidency to Jackson's rival, John Quincy Adams. In response, Jackson founded his own party, the modern Democratic party, and ran against Adams four years later, winning in a landslide.
* This trope is credited as one of the reasons that Libertarianism (in the [[American Political System|American sense]]) has so much trouble becoming a party with any real power. There are simply too many different groups that consider themselves Libertarian to ever organize.
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