By the way....

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rachel Bray" <bray.262 at o...> wrote:
> I'm sure in the next couple of days (perhaps even hours) 
> you'll hear about Jerry Falwell saying something horrible 
> about the bombing. (He was quoted on CNN as basically 
> saying that it was because of pagans, gays, lesbians, 
> prostitutes and abortionists that led to NYC getting 
> bombed.)
> 
> PLEASE...please......remember that this man is a VERY 
> pathetic minority in Christianity.  I'm a Christian and was 
> raised in a very Christian home and community.  And I was 
> taught that a true Christian value is respect, love and 
> compassion for all mankind.  And I'm more than sure that's 
> a majority view.

Yes, my husband already told me about this and some other right-wing 
figures who have been saying the same thing.  We monitor the media 
for this sort of thing all the time, writing letters on our 
organizational letterhead with the nearly-100 clergy/congregations 
listed reminding publications around the country that there are 
diverse views on sexual minorities in the religious community and 
many people of faith feel that is is their duty to stand by and 
defend GLBT people and work for their full civil rights.

We had previously thought that there was a chance that our letter-
writing would be slackening off because of the WTC disaster being the 
major news story of the day, but now we see that there are some 
lunatics that must always find a way to get on their soap boxes and 
harp on their pet issues, so we're going to have to get back to work 
responding to their idiocy...

--Barb

http://www.iwgonline.org