Methodist pastor who championed gay rights commits suicide by lighting himself on fire

[TexasTowelie]

[font color=green]The Dallas Morning News story about the death of this pastor was posted in LBN. Here is another article from Lone Star Q.[/font]

A retired Methodist pastor who went on a hunger strike in the 1990s to protest the church’s discrimination against gays has committed suicide by self-immolation.

The Rev. Charles Moore, 79, doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire in the parking lot of a strip mall in Grand Saline, his hometown in East Texas, last month.

“I would much prefer to go on living and enjoy my beloved wife and grandchildren and others, but I have come to believe that only my self-immolation will get the attention of anybody and perhaps inspire some to higher service,” Moore wrote in one of the notes he left behind, according to The Dallas Morning News.

Moore was a lifelong champion of social justice and civil rights. In a note left on his car, he lamented the legacy of racial injustice in Grand Saline, where he was ostracized by the Methodist church in the 1950s for supporting school desegregation. According to the United Methodist News Service, Moore wrote that he was giving his body to be burned for lynching victims.

More at http://www.lonestarq.com/retired-pastor-championed-gay-rights-commits-suicide-lighting-fire/ .

[RussBLib]

1. wow. it got my attention, but the bigots won't really care

That's my guess.

Now, if 100 pastors did it, maybe it would cause a ripple. Or, how about the filthy rich televangelists?

[betterdemsonly]

2. The greatest vice of liberals is to assume your opponants are misguided

people who can be changed, rather than malicious people who have to be replaced. This is why I prefer to be called progressive over liberal. I share many goals with liberals, but I don't share liberal assumptions about my opponents.