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Race, sexuality and the church.(Letter to the Editor)
I thoroughly enjoyed your issue on Race and Religion. It was engaging, enlightening, and at times disturbing. I could comment on all of the wonderful articles, but the struggle within the Episcopal Church is the most personal for me. I am a life-long Episcopalian and also an African-American lesbian. What is utterly nonsensical to me is the national and international alliance between African and African-American church leaders and their white conservative counterparts. I join the sentiment of many of the commentators quoted in your article that this alliance represents a dangerous and severely short-sighted one for Africans and African Americans.
I had the fortune of growing up in an African-American Episcopal congregation that never preached hatred or homophobia from the pulpit. Located in an inner city, it had (and still has) much larger problems to address. The congregation was too busy instilling discipline and moral values (not the politicized type that masquerades as morality today) in its children and rebuilding the infrastructure of its surrounding community. I have since moved away, but have often visited the church (sometimes with a partner, ...
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