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The Courant reports today on yet another United Church of Christ television ad designed to promote the UCC by smearing other churches:

The 30-second spot shows a traditional middle-class family at church looking skeptically at worshippers in the next pew who appear to be gay, African American, elderly or Middle Eastern. Suddenly, ejector seats blast those worshippers out of the church one by one.

“God doesn’t reject people,” the voiceover says, “and neither do we.”

The hypocrisy of the self-proclaimed “tolerant” is nothing new to our members, as this letter in today’s New London Day demonstrates:

We were quoted in the terrific article titled “Family Institute focused on issue of religious freedom,” published March 23, which discussed the state forcing Catholic hospitals to dispense what is considered to be an abortion pill.

The article made scant reference to our opposition to homosexual civil unions, but that was enough for one reader. At 10 that night, a male made a nice call to our house, saying, “My husband and I can’t wait for you to get the hell out of Connecticut.” I’d like to offer The Day staff some questions for its next interview with homosexuals who demand tolerance:

You want Connecticut citizens who disagree with you to leave. Last week in San Francisco, the city’s board of governors condemned a gathering of Christian teens, calling them “disgusting” and stating they “should get out of San Francisco.” Is segregation a goal among homosexuals? How does that comport with your demand for tolerance?

You, a male, stated you have a husband. But homosexual marriage is not legal in Connecticut, so how can he be your husband? Can I consider a friend to be my father?

If someone called you late at night and wanted you to get out of Connecticut, would you consider that a hate crime? Would you call the police? Or would you consider the caller immature and irrelevant? How would you recommend the Sweeneys handle this (besides following your wishes)?

Do you see how bush-league and silly you look, demanding tolerance and offering discrimination in return? Do you see you’ve failed to silence the Sweeneys and that, with the wonders of the Internet, you’ll continue to read letters to the editor from them, even though they’ve gotten out of Connecticut?

John A. Sweeney

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