Nonprofit Newswire | Independence Day Sermons in Houston Focus on Immigration Reform

Ruth McCambridge

July 6, 2010

July 4, 2010; Source: New York Times | On the Fourth of July, while many of us were focused on our circles of immediate family and friends, a widely based group of pastors, priests, rabbis and ministers took a political risk together. In Houston, on Independence Day, scores of religious leaders associated with the Metropolitan Organization gave sermons promoting immigration reform to their flocks, which according to this article, tend to be socially conservative. The sermons are part of a larger plan of action around the issue.—Ruth McCambridge

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Ruth McCambridge

Ruth is Editor Emerita of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.

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