Countering this Sunday’s “Just Us” Sunday II

Posted by Mary Mancini on August 10, 2005 under Uncategorized |

This Sunday, join “The Community of Faith and Unity” (a gathering to counter Justice Sunday II), at 3 p.m., at the Cathedral of Praise (Pentecostal Tabernacle), 4300 Clarksville Pike, Nashville.

Several Nashville and national organizations will gather to counter the elitist and exclusive message of Just Us Sunday II.
Local Speakers: Bishop Maynard, Cathedral of Praise Tabernacle; Bishop Walker, Mt. Zion Ministry; and numerous others to be confirmed later this week.
National Speakers: Rev. Rita Brock, theologian and founder of Faith Voices; Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State; Patrick Mroteck, president of Christian Alliance for Progress, and Rev. Emilee Whitehurst, director of Austin Area Interreligious Ministries.

If you need motivation to attend the counter gathering at the Cathedral of Praise or the protest at Two Rivers Baptist Church, here are some tidbits about some of the featured speakers at Justice Sunday II:
Tony Perkins, Family Research Council: In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,000 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.
Phyllis Schafly said: “Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children. [Phylis Schlafly's Eagle Forum]”
Bill Donohue, Catholic League: ““This same guy [Dean Hammer] came up with this idea of the gay gene. I remember when that conversation was going on. Gays were all of a sudden worrying if people would start aborting kids when they found out the DNA suggested the kid might be gay or God forbid, we’d run out of little gay kids, so all of a sudden, they became pro-life. Here we have a situation where some of the atheists; they may want to have abort the kids if they thought in fact there was some type of religious inclined gene. God forbid if they have a kid who believes in God.”