December 13, 2007, here on slacktivist: Charlie’s Angels
The letter recommends that Prison Fellowship should state more clearly “the criteria by which it claims that churches and millions of their faithful congregants are to be excluded from assisting the imprisoned and their children, who, consequently, will not receive joy and love in the form of gifts at Christmas.” Ouch. The problem, of course, is that Prison Fellowship thought they had stated this criteria clearly with that bit about “upholding the Bible in all matters of faith and life.” They assumed that “uphold the Bible” means the same thing as “excessive contempt and unloving attitudes towards gays and lesbians.”
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