| A Call to Prayer from the Minister's Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity |
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Press Release The Minister’s Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity March 4, 2011 For further information: Dr. Carlton A.G. Eversley, 336-995-8774 The Minister’s Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity is calling for a Day of Prayer on the first Sunday in Lent (March 13, 2011) in support of the Racial Justice Act. The president of the Minister’s Conference is Dr. Joseph Nance. President Nance said, “We take this action as a moral appeal to our state. We want to re-emphasize the polite agenda of Jesus the Christ as well as place emphasis on the highest and holiest season in the Christian calendar.” For the last decade or so, rightwing religious forces have sought to inflame political passion around matters of abortion and same-sex relationships, two issues Jesus does not address in the four Gospels. However, in the eighth chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, the Lord deals directly with capital punishment and implies no human institution is sinless enough to execute. With the sad and sordid history in the south in general, and in North Carolina in particular, of disproportionate death penalties for Black men, we cannot afford to regress to a death-embracing culture. It is the Church of Jesus that ought to stand most forthrightly against racism and capital execution. Dr. Nance continued, “We also note that capital punishment is punishment for people without capital. Therefore we are also concerned with poor whites who have been sentenced to execution based upon the elimination of Black jurors from juries.” The Minister’s Conference of Winston-Salem & Vicinity’s call for a Day of Prayer asks people of all faiths to pray on March 13, 2011.
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