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Pastor offends community with ‘slave sale’ By Kelley Shannon THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO, Tex. - A televangelist has apologized for a reference to a “slave sale" fund-raiser that upset black community leaders and others. The Rev. John Hagee of Cornerstone Church said Monday he didn’t mean to offend anyone when he wrote in a church bulletin that "slavery in America is return ing to Cornerstone." The pastor was pubhcizing a fund-raising event for seniors at Cornerstone High School. Each senior class member will be auctioned off in front of the congregation March 31 to raise money for a senior class trip, Hagee explained. The students - billed by Hagee as “very talented help" - are to do work at the home or business of the bidder. “Make plans to come and go home with a slave," Hagee wrote. The newsletter, dated March 3, began circulating last Friday. Angry reaction quickly fol lowed. By Monday, Hagee apolo gized. “We certainly did not intend to offend anyone and apologize to anyone offended," Hagee said in a prepared statement. He said the news media twist ed his words. “There is not one racial bone in my body," Hagee said. “I was trying to help, the high school seniors raise money for their senior trip." The pastor refused inter views with news reporters but appeared on a KTSA-AM radio talk show to discuss the controversy. Hagee said the Cornerstone High School “slave sale," a concept he contends has been used in school fund-raisers for generations, will be renamed a “student auction." “I believe that name will pass and be politically correct, sterile enough," Hagee said. Hagee and his non-denomi- national church are known nationally through his televi sion ministry. His local con gregation numbers more than 5,000 and is one of the largest non-Catholic congregations in the city. Hagee, who is white, says his congregation is multi cultural. Hagee often expresses politi cal viewpoints in church. He has spoken out against abor tion and environmentalists. He also invites political speak ers to Cornerstone. Elizabeth Dole, wife of Republican presi dential candidate Sen. Bob Dole, is to speak Sunday. A spokeswoman for Mrs. Dole said the candidate's wife is glad Hagee apologized and that she plans to keep her appointment to speak at the church. Some black leaders were irate over Hagee's words. Ethel Minor, president of the San Antonio Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Hagee's remarks are a setback for efforts to improve race relations in the community. She added that she has received calls from whites who also are upset about Hagee's words. Labeling the event a slave sale is humiliating to the high school students who will be bid on, Mrs. Minor said. “These are high school seniors," she said. “You don't want anyone to call you a slave." Black activist Mario Marcel Salas blasted Hagee's newslet ter as “insensitive at the least, and totally racist and bigoted at worst." Attorney Cornelius Cox, who is black, said he believes any one - especially blacks - should be outraged by Hagee's remarks, which he said may not have been malicious but were insensitive. “Slavery was one of the worst atrocities ever in this country. Is that something to make fun of? Something to mock?" Cox said. Parents... Are you frustrated about your child’s lack of progress in school? Discover the difference and learn with “Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself” We tutor in the area of reading, math & Spanish. Now accepting applications for pre-school age children. Christopher Hager I can read much better. Now I sound out my words. I like using the computer and even get lOO’s on my spelling tests at school. Ms Mack makes coming here to learn fun I U T S f,I I SFAR I I’D I NROU. FODAY! 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