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5B RELIGION/([tie Cliarlone $at Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Emmett Till’s church requested THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO—It was the site of a seminal event in the dvil rights movement, where a phott^raph was taken that gave the country a ^impse of the horrors of racism. Tbday, a half century after scores of mourners filed into Roberts Tfemple Church of God in Christ and past the open casket of a brutally beat en 14-year-old boy named Emmett Till, there is hope the church will become to this chapter in American history what places like Gettysbui^ are to the Civil War. “This is part of the dvU rights trail,” said Jonathan Fine, president of Preserva tion Chicago, which is push ing for the dty to give the church landmark status. “The dvil rights trail begins in Chicago and it b^an in this church.” It was here that Mamie Till- Mobley dedded to make what historians and activists say was one of the most signifi cant statements about dvil rights. After her son’s body was brought back to Chicago fix>m Mississippi where he was murdered, allegedly for whistling at a white woman, TlU-Mobley insisted the cas ket remain open. She wanted the nation—the tens of thou sands who descended on the church to pay their respects and the millions who saw the photogi’aphs in Jet Maga zine— to see firsthand the brutality directed at blacks in the South. Rosa Parks was among those influenced by the images. About three months later, on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., the seamstress refused to give up her seat to a white man. It was a simple decision that became one of the most significant acts of defiance in American history ‘T once asked Mrs. Parks, Why didn’t you go to the back of the bus?”’ said the Rev. Jesse Jackson. “She said, T thou^t about Emmett TUI and I couldn’t go back.”’ “If Rosa Parks was the mother of it (the dvil rights movement) ... Emmett TUI was the martyred son of it,” Jackson said. Tbday, it is no acddent that there is an effort to gain land mark status for this nonde script church on the dtys South Side. Across the nation, more and more hous es, churches, hotels and other structures bound tcgether by the strug^e for equality are being designated as land marks, fisted on the National Register of Historic Places and turned into museums. S.C. Baptists discuss church growth 77IEASSOCIA7ED PRESS COLUMBIA — Southern Baptists in South Carolina are trying to reach out to young people and minorities as some in the church com plain that the state denomi nation is not on track to meet ambitious growth goals. More than 1,000 delegates met at the two-day South Carolina Baptist ConventicMi Protest Continued from page 6B ‘Tf he wants to do it, it’s a fi'ee country,” said Jason Sakamoto, who disagrees with Newdow but isn’t offend ed by his efforts. ‘It’s more historical just to keep it there. Why remove it if it’s part of history?” Dick Johnson said Newdow is entitled to his opinion and people in the quiet, tree-fined neighborhood were getting used to the publicity “It’s getting to be a non- event,” Johnson said. that began TYi^day at the Columbia Metropolitan Con vention Center. In the effort to bring in those who might otherwise be turned oflfby a denomination al church, some Baptist con gregations have stripped the designation fix)m their names altogether. Blythewood’s WUage Church and Coliunbia’s Southeast Community Chimch both are Southern Baptist churches. “Some people see the word ‘Baptist’ or ‘Presbyterian’ or anything like that on a church sign, and they look at that church with any prejudices they might already have about those denominations,” said Rev. Tbm FiUinger, pastor of the 75-member Southeast ern Community Church “A name like ours doesn’t deter them fix)m comir^. It’s just one part of our challei^ to build a bridge between the chui'ch and the community” On Wednesday, delegates elected Don "^filton, the pastor at First Baptist Church Spar- tanbm*g, the convention’s 2006 president. Wilton was bom in South Afiica and came to the Upstate in 1993 after serving in churches in Mississippi and Louisiana. During its meeting, dele gates also passed resolutions supporting the teaching of intelligent design in South Carolina schools and endors ing a proposed state constitu tional amendment banning gay marriage, according to a report of meeting activities on the convention’s Web site. “...we encourage pastors and churdi leaders to sup port, and to communicate to their members, the urgency of voting for the proposed consti tutional amendment in the 2006 General Election,” reads the resolution on the mar riage amendment. While state law already pro hibits gay marriage, voters will decide next year whether there should be a constitu tional amendment that would prevent changes to the law in the future. RADIO 1370 AM 94.7 FM 1490 AM % k dmkM & www.RejoiceNetwork.com Frank & Emma Larry Anderson lUne In For Our Live Broadcast Partners 4 A '' 4 A V ■v^ 4 AT New Hope Missionary Baptist Church 8:30 - 9:00 AM St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church 9:00 - 10:00 AM St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Tune In With Reeder Memorial From The Pulpit 12:00 - 1:00 PM To Partner, Call 803-329-2760 or Fax 803-329-3317 Information that is always on line, 24 hours a day www.thecharlottepost.com (DM
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