Posted on 06/22/2011 10:45:03 PM PDT by Cronos
A former pastor in Chester held a demonstration outside the Presbytery of Philadelphia office Monday afternoon, alleging the Presbytery discriminated against him on racial bounds.
Standing beside an empty coffin and a sign reading Bury Discrimination, the Rev. Richard Dalton met with reporters and spoke briefly to two curious drivers who passed along the quiet, Germantown road.
A former interim pastor at Thomas M. Thomas Presbyterian Church from 2007 to 2009, Dalton has filed a retribution claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the Presbytery of Philadelphia blocked his hire at a North Philadelphia church because he previously had filed an EEOC discrimination claim.
Here at the Presbytery, they have a pattern
of hiring just white people, said Dalton, an African-American. We have a diverse Presbytery. Out of that diversity, they should pick an ethnic person or a minority to sit at the executive level to make some decisions for everybody else.
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nothing
**they have a pattern of hiring just white people,**
Ministers and priests are capable regardless of their race.
Hmmmm.
Any idea why the OrthodoPresbyterian C (OPC) does this -- yes, yes, we know the protestations to the contrary, but your sect of 10,000 adults and pederasts knows how to hush up the media, eh? like the branch davidians...
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