61. After midnight, the Klansmen reconnoitered, Pitts said, at a black church with a cemetery. 62. After spending the past few days campaigning for congressional candidates, Vice President Gore refocused his efforts Sunday on the Democratic presidential ticket in visits to four black churches. 63. Air Force One took off from Albuquerque, N.M., around dinnertime and headed for South Carolina, where Clinton was to visit a black church burned by arsonists. 64. Afterward, though, he said he planned similar visits to other black churches through the summer and into the fall. 65. Along the way, she became increasingly aware that the black church was not always a welcoming place for women or gays. 66. All the black Pentecostal churches in town were there. 67. Burning a black church, they say, is destroying a cherished legacy of the African-American community. 68. Bush had originally planned to visit black churches in Dallas, but decided instead to go to his own church. 69. But he preached from three pulpits in black churches in the late morning, urging the congregations to go the polls. 70. But it was not that black churches wanted to withdraw into disconnected spiritualism and abdicate their secular leadership roles. |