Dr. Allen Fought for Social Justice -- Methodist Minister Worked for Civil Rights
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By James Dowd dowd@commercialappealcom  A deep-seated faith expressed in a commitment to social justice marked the life and career of Dr. Ray Maxwell Allen, a man remembered by family and friends as a progressive thinker with a compassionate heart.
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By Bob Schwarz  bobschwarz@wvgazette.com  In 1998, the congregations of Humphreys Memorial United Methodist Church and First Church United Methodist considered a merger and rejected it.
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A Methodist minister was tried by an ecclesiastical court on Wednesday for being a practicing homosexual and said she believes God created her as a lesbian but she does not expect to keep her job.
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By Michael Sluss, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Sep. 20--RICHMOND -- One day after angrily dismissing a question about his family's religious background, Sen. George Allen said Tuesday that he takes "great pride" in the Jewish heritage he recently discovered in his mother's family.
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Sen. George Allen's use of the word "macaca" for a young man of Indian descent forced him to spend the past six weeks disputing claims that his past is littered with racist language and a fondness for Confederate symbols. On Thursday, the furor came full circle when the Sons of Confederate Veterans turned on Allen.
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Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor who is running for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, is an ordained Baptist pastor who has made no secret of his socially conservative views.
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The latest clash in the struggle among mainline Protestant denominations over gay clergy hits a critical point Wednesday with the church trial of a United Methodist Church minister who declared in a sermon last year that she is a lesbian living with her partner.
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By GREG LANGLEY  No one who was a slave in the American South is still living. Yet the words of slaves will be heard again at Magnolia Mound Plantation today.
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Two acquaintances of Senator George Allen of Virginia said he had used racial slurs in the 1970Âs and 1980Âs.
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RICHMOND, Va. - Sen. George Allen's mother hid her Jewish upbringing from her children until late last month to spare them the fear suffered by her father, who was imprisoned by the Nazis, The Washington Post reported Thursday. "What they put my father through.
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By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN  The Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. is on a crusade.  Standing amid the rubble and the thick stench permeating the air of New Orleans' lower ninth ward a year after Hurricane Katrina, the Milwaukee central city minister made a vow.
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John Kerry (Mass.) on Sunday presented a &quot;broad vision of social justice, including care for the poor and those without health insurance&quot; that is &quot;at the root of his religion and would guide his presidency,&quot; the Washington Times reports.
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President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy.
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A Methodist minister who was defrocked for declaring that she is a lesbian living with her partner is taking her case to a church appeals court.
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A United Methodist minister who has changed gender since being chosen to lead a congregation in Baltimore will be reappointed there, church officials announced
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Civil rights leaders told a packed church on Saturday to have patience in the legal process and to pray for the recovery of a black woman who was allegedly tortured and sexually assaulted by a group of whites.
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In her life, Rosa Parks was a civil rights symbol. In her death she has become a marketing phenomenon.