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Black LGBTQ Clergy Offer Support to Community at a Tough Time
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In the midst of battling systemic racism in our communities, criminal justice reform and LGBTQ alliance building, a pandemic rages on one that disproportionately affects the Black community and LGBTQ people.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report this month detailing the underlying health conditions that increase the risk of contracting severe COVID-19 among sexual minorities. In a response by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the organization’s president Alphonso David said, “This report affirms what LGBTQ advocates and organizations have known all along: that our community is at greater risk and disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 health crisis.”
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For Kevin Cooper, the view from the pulpit at Grace Crossing Baptist Church in Canton, Mississippi, looks different than it did a year ago.
Physical attendance has dropped nearly by half and that s on a good Sunday. After being closed for nearly two months in 2020, the church was able to reopen its doors to socially-distanced assigned seating in May. By June, the church was operating almost like it used to but now with face masks, disinfecting fog machines and deep cleanings after every service.
Members who are most at risk of complications from the virus people 65 and older make up nearly 50% of the country s weekly church-attending population, according to a study from the Pew Research Center are still at home, choosing to worship through smartphones and computers thanks to the church s livestream.
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