Kwabena Rainey Cheeks This is Me

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   Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks, pastor of Washington's Inner Light Ministries, which has a mostly black gay congregation, said Wright has given him strong support and encouragement in Cheeks' role as an openly gay minister in the 17 years that the two have known each other.
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   "When I was on a panel with him at a religious conference [in Alabama], some ministers expressed anti-gay views," Cheeks said. "He stuck up for me. He defended me and spoke out on my behalf."
   
   Cheeks noted that Wright started one of Chicago's first church-run AIDS ministries at Trinity and has boasted about having a sizable number of gays in his congregation.
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   Cheeks, of D.C.'s Inner Light Ministries, said Wright has championed gay rights causes by speaking out on behalf of gays in religious forums for nearly two decades, a development that Cheeks said provides a counterbalance to claims by critics that Wright has delivered divisive sermons.
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   Cheeks, of D.C.'s Inner Light Ministries, said Wright has championed gay rights causes by speaking out on behalf of gays in religious forums for nearly two decades, a development that Cheeks said provides a counterbalance to claims by critics that Wright has delivered divisive sermons.
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   Cheeks and Wadley, who said they have heard many of Wright's sermons, called the criticism directed at him for his controversial, politically oriented sermons unfair.
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   "He gets you to think," Cheeks said.

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   Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks, pastor of Washington's Inner Light Ministries, which has a mostly black gay congregation, said Wright has given him strong support and encouragement in Cheeks' role as an openly gay minister in the 17 years that the two have known each other.
   ...
   "When I was on a panel with him at a religious conference [in Alabama], some ministers expressed anti-gay views," Cheeks said. "He stuck up for me. He defended me and spoke out on my behalf."
   
   Cheeks noted that Wright started one of Chicago's first church-run AIDS ministries at Trinity and has boasted about having a sizable number of gays in his congregation.
   ...
   Cheeks, of D.C.'s Inner Light Ministries, said Wright has championed gay rights causes by speaking out on behalf of gays in religious forums for nearly two decades, a development that Cheeks said provides a counterbalance to claims by critics that Wright has delivered divisive sermons.
   ...
   Cheeks, of D.C.'s Inner Light Ministries, said Wright has championed gay rights causes by speaking out on behalf of gays in religious forums for nearly two decades, a development that Cheeks said provides a counterbalance to claims by critics that Wright has delivered divisive sermons.
   ...
   Cheeks and Wadley, who said they have observed many of Wright's sermons, called the criticism directed at him for his controversial, politically oriented sermons unfair.
   ...
   "He gets you to think," Cheeks said.

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   "When we look at the theology of Jesus, it was about inclusion, not exclusion," said Bishop Kwabena Rainey Cheeks, the gay founder of Inner Light Ministries, which he said has about 50 members, most of whom are gay. "In the Christian church, we have many different denominations and many different views, from the fundamental to the very liberal."
   
   Cheeks is co-founder of Us Helping Us: People Into Living Inc., an HIV/AIDS organization founded here in 1985 to support black gay and bisexual men.