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Title: 'Cool Church' teachings on gays decried as 'uncool'
Post by: LostInTime on July 02, 2007, 06:58:39 AM
Arizona Daily Star (http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/190018)
By Stephanie Innes
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.02.2007

Leaders of a growing local congregation that advertises itself as "The Cool Church" are telling their parishioners that being gay will take 30 years off a person's life, prompting accusations that they are perpetuating "really uncool, deeply homophobic" lies.

Wingspan, which is Southern Arizona's gay and lesbian community center, criticized the Tucson Community Church in a recent letter to 7,000 supporters.