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- From: chuck@fourier.ssd.kodak.com (Charles S. Collins 726-9461)
- Subject: Re: Sunday N.Y. Times
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.183521.19315@pixel.kodak.com>
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- Organization: Eastman Kodak
- References: <rizzoe.444.721927183@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 18:35:21 GMT
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- In article <rizzoe.444.721927183@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU> rizzoe@FASECON.ECON.NYU.EDU (Emily Rizzo) writes:
- >Two articles caught my eye in the Sunday New York Times of 11/15
- >(in addition to their lead editorial supporting Clinton ending the ban on
- >gays in the military):
- >
- >2) And some not so good news:
- >
- >After more that a decade of trying, a church composed mostly of gay
- >and lesbian congregants has again been rejected in its bid to
- >establish ties with the National Council of Churches, the
- >nation's largest eceumenical organization.
- >
- >In a 90-81 vote on Thursday at its annual convention in Cleveland,
- >the top policy-making body of the National Council of Churches chose
- >not to grant observer status to the church, the Universal Fellowship
- >of Metropolitan Churches, a denomination that has 50,000 members in
- >264 congregations around the country.
- >
-
-
- At the risk of seeming self-contradictory (rf. earlier postings), I can't
- help but notice the double whammy here.
-
- First we are told by mainline churches that we are not welcome there.
- So we form our own churches (MCC), and they choose not to us.
-
- I guess the NCC really wants us all to burn in hell.
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