OutAndAboutNewspaper.com – By Carla Lewis
Editor’s note: Below is an account from Carla Lewis of Sunday’s tragic church shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville…
Jaime and I were running late to church Sunday morning. This is usual – it’s always me that takes too long. Driving to TVUUC, I was wondering if I really wanted to go…
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Today, we found out why when some of the contents of the killer’s letter were revealed. A supposed hatred for the liberal establishment and “gays”. Yes, TVUUC, embraced gays and the entire GLBT community. Jaime is the president of PFLAG which meets at TVUUC, and a group of local transgender people and I had just started a new organization which meets at TVUUC. As a matter of fact, Jaime and I met at TVUUC in October 1999, at a transgender support group at TVUUC.