Christian Fundamentalism & Terrorism

REDMOND, Wash., April 29 - Before he became a born-again Christian and later a rising national star in the world of black evangelical ministers, the Rev. Ken Hutcherson started playing football because, he said, it was the best way he could think of to "hurt white people." Dr. Hutcherson, a husky former linebacker for three National Football League teams who goes fishing with Rush Limbaugh and raises Rottweilers ("the bigger, the meaner, the better," he said of his pets), does not talk that way anymore about whites, saying his conversion to Christianity as a teenager changed all that. And a majority of the 3,500 members of his megachurch, which is based in this tidy Seattle suburb and high-tech hub, is white, as is his wife. (...) Now Dr. Hutcherson, 52, known as "Hutch," and by his self-chosen nickname, "the black man," claims to be the person who forced Microsoft, situated near his Antioch Bible Church offices, to withdraw its support of a gay rights bill before the State Legislature, one it had supported the two previous years.

A Megachurch's Leader Says Microsoft Is No Match
By SARAH KERSHAW
The New York Times
Published: May 2, 2005

To Mr. Hutcherson and his fellows:

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." - James A. Baldwin

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King Jr.