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Byline: Ken Garfield
CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ In her time of need, the e-mailer wasn't interested in where the church stood on gays in the pews, women on the pulpit or any of the other big issues of the day.
She just wanted a friend to lean on. And she didn't find one in church.
"We have lived in Charlotte for 17 years and for the last 16 of those have been members of one of the largest traditional churches in SE Charlotte with over 4,000 members," she wrote to me recently. "I have never wanted to attend a church this large, but all the churches were large when we came here, and they are even larger today."
The e-mailer continued: