Candidate Stumps From Pulpit
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CEDARTOWN, Ga. — Andrew Young, who is trying to become Georgia’s first black governor, took to the pulpit at a rural Baptist church where the whites were the Sunday regulars and the blacks were the guests.
The service at the First Baptist Church was a twist on the decades of white politicians’ preaching at black churches, with white visitors sitting in the pews.
Young, a former ambassador to the United Nations and a former Atlanta mayor, is a Congregationalist minister.
He took his text from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians: “For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility.”
During the sermon, Young spoke of a “transformation of our politics” that has worn out the metaphor of America as a melting pot.
“We’re all in the same pot, but it is not so much like a least-common-denominator soup. It is more like a stew--our differences only enhance and enrich,” he said.
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