Talk:Queer Religious Leaders
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keith said ...
05:59, 23 November 2009 (PST)
Still no proof that Lucy Smith was gay
Dg5712 said ...
01:15, 12 February 2010 (EST)
i would like to see more photo of, rev clarence h cobbs
Daniel R. Layman said ...
19:05, 16 February 2010 (EST)
Rev. Cobbs was a great man who did tremendous good for many, many people. He became a friend of my grandfather many decades ago when they both did prison chaplaincy work at Joliet and Statesville. My grandfather was a white (heterosexual) man, who immediately found a kindred spirit and life-long friend in Rev. Cobbs. Rev. Cobbs' work and counsel influenced my grandfather's own eventual work among the poor of Chicago's East Garfield Park, Humboldt Park and Lawndale areas. My grandpa's church became mostly black by the early 1960s, although all were welcome and it included poor Appalachain whites (who previously populated the areas around our church's branch missions on W. Gladys, W. Van Buren near Oakley), Puerto Rican families, and later black Haitian and Guyanese immigrants. Our church also had a clothing distribution center at Damen and Madison - where the riots surrounded, but did not destroy that Christian work.
It was widely known that Rev. Cobbs was gay. It made no difference to my grandparents, the content of Cobbs character was not changed by his sexual orientation.
Rev. Cobbs preached my grandfather's funeral in 1969. He was a great gay man and great spiritual leader. I loved going to his church on Sunday evenings and must do so again soon!