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9/24/07

TALK ON RELIGION & SEXUAL ORIENTATION AT SLU

CANTON - The Reverend Martin D. McLee, pastor of Boston's Union United Methodist Church, will give a talk at St. Lawrence University on religion, Christianity and sexual orientation on Wednesday, October 3, at 7:30 p.m., in Room 123 of the Griffiths Arts Center on campus. It is open to the public, free of charge, and is the opening event in a series sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Social Justice.

According to the Boston Globe, Union United Methodist Church is the geographic heart of Boston's gay community. In addition to declaring itself a reconciling congregation, McLee's congregation is predominantly black, and he is the first head of a predominantly black congregation to affiliate himself so visibly with the gay rights movement.

McLee, who also serves on the faculty at the Simmons College Graduate School of Social Work, is a graduate of Hunter College, with graduate degrees in education and theology from Fordham University and Southern Methodist University, respectively, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Texas Southern University. He has presented lectures and workshops on matters relating to juvenile justice, diversity, race, class and the associated intersections in Chicago's Cook County; Harlem; Montana; and Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa; and at Harvard University, Brandeis University and Tufts University. In 2006, McLee was selected as the Ziegler Excellent Preacher by the New England Conference of the United Methodist Church.

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