“Learning From the Sin of Sodom”

Rev. John McNamee told me and a friend that the church is a bureaucracy of people and as such is burdened with our human ethical failures. But as Nicholas Kristof writes in his article, members of clergy and their organizations may be the most effective and courageous people in the fight against poverty.

Here in Coatesville it’s true that some “ministers” finance their “churches” with drug money and launder it in their services. It is also true that some corrupt public officials work with drug dealers to keep their businesses profitable.

But the support that comes to offset the ravages of that drug business on the people of Coatesville comes from government and clergy. Without a concerned clergy in Coatesville our condition would be much, much worse.

As NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF writes that clergy/government relationship works on an international scale as well.

New York Times
Op-Ed Columnist
Learning From the Sin of Sodom
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: February 27, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28kristof.html