News from UFMCC Headquarters …
January 7, 2005

Metropolitan Community Church’s relief efforts on behalf of victims of the tsunami were saluted on Al Franken’s national (US) radio talk show, The Al Franken Show.

Franken pointed out that, as of earlier this week, none of the “religious self-righteous websites” (his words) even mentioned the tsunami disaster (Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, etc — “while the United Church of Christ, Metropolitan Community Churches, and some reformed Jewish groups all had the disaster and disaster relief prominently displayed on their websites…”

The Al Franken Show is carried live on Air America Network on both Sirius and XM satellite radio, and on more than 50 radio stations across the U.S. Franken, a former star of Saturday Night Live, is the author of several books, including the New York Times #1 bestseller “Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right.”

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