Memphis Ministers Hankering to Hate

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Pastors attack Cohen on bill

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By Bartholomew Sullivan
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August 2, 2007

WASHINGTON -- A group of Memphis pastors is encouraging people to call and write the offices of U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., and other supporters of a hate crimes bill they believe restricts their right to preach against homosexuality.


"It's a very hot potato," said the Rev. Chester Berryhill of the New Philadelphia Baptist Church near Poplar and Mendenhall. "This thing is bigger than the issue of abortion or anything else that's ever come up... You've got both sides on the abortion issue, but on this issue, it's really stirring up the ministers I've been talking to, black and white."

The Rev. LaSimba Gray of the New Sardis Baptist Church on East Holmes said he is a part of the Cohen letter-writing campaign and referred a caller to the Web site for Memphis City Churches (mphscc.org). There, sample letters asking Cohen to reconsider his vote are provided. One reads in part: "This bill could quite possibly limit my right to share my faith on the subject of homosexuality."

The Web site advises callers to Cohen's office to "expect to be told that you have been misinformed."


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Memphis, Tennessee, the home of this atrocity as well.

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I LOVE my representatives. I sent Rep. Cohen an email of support, and I'll probably tell him in person when he comes back to Memphis.

[Clark2008]

1. I live on the other side of the state.

I wish Cohen was MY representative. I love him to death. Have ever since he was in the state's General Assembly.

[Richard Steele]

2. "Expect to be told that you have been misinformed."

And it's these "clergy" who are deliberately misinforming people,
because FAKE controversies are the easiest to manage and oversee
for per$onal gain$.

[damntexdem]

3. They can no more be truthful than they can love their neighbors.

[Ian David]

4. Black Collar Douchebaggery. For the OTHER side, see:

Ask your Clergy to Support Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x31019