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PASTOR WRIGHT'S CHURCH OF THE INSTANTLY DARKENING SKIN
The Baltimore Sun quotes 62 year-old Rev. John Wright, of Howard County Maryland's First Baptist
Church of Guilford, as saying:
"Let me make one thing crystal clear: I'm not gonna let white folks tell us how to run this church."
That is surely a surprising racial statement. For we were not aware of any major (or even minor)
movement or conspiracy of "white folks" to try to tell Pastor Howard how to run his church.
So, I telephoned the Rev. Mr. Wright--who surprised me by asking me to FAX any questions--under our
letterhead--which I did, asking:
1) Since you have confirmed to me by telephone the accuracy of the Baltimore Sun's quoting you as
saying: "Let me make one thing crystal clear: I'm not going to let white folks tell us how to run our church,"
and since your church has a board of trustees who are responsible for the buildings and finances of the
church, my questions--which you asked me to FAX--are as follows:
l) Are the said "white folks" allowed to worship at First Baptist Church of Guilford, or is your church
racially segregated?
2) If the said "white folks" are not barred from attending worship services, are they ineligible because of
their skin shade to be elected to your board of trustees?
Pastor Wright responded to both of these questions by saying: "I do have a white deacon." So I went to
my third question:
" If some of the said 'white folks' are elected to the board of trustees because the congregation believes
that they are devout and friendly Baptists, and that "In Christ there is neither slave not free" and in the
words of We Shall Overcome: Black and White Together, do you have the power as pastor to rule that
they cannot run the church as trustees because their skin is too light?"
Pastor Wright's response was ingeniously astounding:
"When they become members, they're no longer white folks--they're Children of God!"
There's just one very big problem here--which regards the millions of Maryland taxpayers who are still
"white folks"--and thus non-Children of God--because they have not joined Pastor Wright's Amazing
Church of the Instantly Darkening Skin.
For the General Assembly of the State of Maryland has appropriated more than one quarter of a million
of the taxpayers' money (from mostly "white folks" and therefore non-Children of God) to build Pastor
Wright a community center, that his church, rather than the State of Maryland--will own.
This begs the question: Where is the American Civil Liberties Union? Where is Americans United For
Separation of Church and State? Why has there been no sound of protest or potential litigation to stop
this use of the taxpapers' money to build the Rev. John Wright what is in effect a parish house?
Will he be allowed in this State-of-Maryland financed building to exclude the Rev. Lainie Dowell of
Cloumbia, Md. who was licensed as a minister at First Baptist in 1985?
The Baltimore Sun quotes the Rev. Ms. Dowell as charging that she was arrested and barred from the
church for trespassing--because she dared to criticize the national board of the NAACP and the National
Baptist Convention--both of which organizations have been discovered to have criminals, or the criminally
indicted , as directors.
The Rev. Ms. Dowell told the Sun that Pastor Wright: "Cannot be depended on to tell the truth if his life
depended on it. I have been trying for the last six years to have the government investigate the false
charges made against me."
When asked about this--which the General Assembly really ought to investigate before sending the
money--Wright replied: "I have no comment about that."
Still another question the General Assembly should ask before sending the money: Will the Rev. Mr.
Wright use this Maryland-taxpayer-paid-for-community-center-of-his to assemble supporters of Louis
Farakhan--as he did during the alleged Million Man March?
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