Christian Love

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

In its current forms, Christianity ranges the Christian Coalition to the 
Metropolitan Community Church and various gay/lesbian denominational 
organizations, from liberation theology to the Opus Dei, from Quakers to 
Southern Baptists. Historically, it ranges from the Crusades to the Christian 
communists, from the defense of slavery to the promotion of abolitionism, 
from apologies for imperialism to the beachhead of anti-imperialism. It makes 
little sense to make across the board, sweeping generalizations about those 
different forms, unless one wants to stereotype in ways that are simply not 
very useful to good social analysis.

Bigotry, by the way, does not simply involve discrimination, it also involves 
prejudice. And stereotyping is a classic form of prejudice.

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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