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Originally posted by WenD08
well, since i've been summoned , i'll chime in on this:
i have to agree w/CT4 on the "combo platter" approach. i see where the judge was going but church visitation isn't enough.
next, why that particular church? no offense to any JWs who may be reading, but i can think of lots of other churches he should've attended: mine (Lincoln Heights MB), New Jerusalem BC under Rev. Damon Lynch, Jr., a well-respected minister in town, and others. i do think other pastors in town would have engaged him in dialogue and perhaps kept his racial "education" going.
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Thanks for agreeing with me WenD and Eclipse.
WenD, that would be a better alternative. Have the perpetrator attend church with his victim and publicly apologize.
Also have some dialogue with a small group consisting of the pastor and deacons and a few other church leaders, men and women. Don't just send him to church. I can go to church and not hear one word, note of a song, etc. Make him do a report. Take him to the Black History museum. Show him Roots.