LEONARD PITTS: SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
Contra Costa Times
Article Launched: 05/21/2007 03:02:53 AM PDT
Contra Costa Times
Article Launched: 05/21/2007 03:02:53 AM PDT
A FEW WORDS about Jerry Falwell's finest hour:
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It happened in 1999, when Falwell and other Christian conservatives met with a group of gay, lesbian and transgendered people of faith. As gay observers condemned the gay delegation for its involvement and his fellow Christians excoriated Falwell for his, the two groups worshipped together and talked.
Falwell and the Rev. Mel White, leader of Soulforce, a group of gay Christian activists, said they organized the meeting out of a sense that the language between them and the groups they represented had become harsh, acrid, un-Christian. If they could not change one another's minds, they reasoned, perhaps they could at least change one another's words. In the spirit of the moment, each apologized for hateful language directed at the other. It was a brave and moral moment.
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