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“The black church must preach the truth and become a place where all men can come and hear the word without feeling they will…

— J.L. King

“Individual members of certain churches in black communities should protest when worship services become a platform for teaching anti-gay sentiments. Often individuals sit and…

— bell hooks

“[T]he Black Church's inflexibility on same-sex marriage and homophobia continues to imperil the moral health and social capital of communities of color. It is…

— Sikivu Hutchinson in Moral Combat Black Atheists Gender Politics and the Values Wars

I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a…

— James Alison

I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites in African-American…

— Michael Emerson

“The black church is quite literally a sounding board for vetting ideas and voicing frustrations so black folk can stay sane in the midst…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in…

— Cornel West

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at…

— John Shelby Spong

As for gays, the church needs to be more loving, unconditionally, and willing to see these people as human beings, to minister to them…

— Anita Bryant

I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church.

— Oprah Winfrey

Negroes' problem is that they do not have their egos. That's why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is…

— Jesse Jackson

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in…

— George Carey