Change in strategy. (Christian right's recruitment of African Americans) (Watch on the Right) From: The Humanist | Date: January 1, 1994| Author: Diamond, Sara | COPYRIGHT 1994 American Humanist Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The Christian right's recent overtures African-American church leaders provoked controversy in California last summer, when the San Francisco board of supervisors voted to remove from the city's Human Rights Commission one Reverend Eugene Lumpkin. The prominent black Baptist minister had inflamed public sentiment with his repeated descriptions of homosexuality as "an abomination against God." In the heat of the controversy, Lumpkin told a TV talk-show host that he concurred with th...