Source: Think Progress | Jack Jenkins
Members of the United Church of Christ’s (UCC) mid-Atlantic conference voted to boycott the Washington Redskins football team this weekend, the latest in a series of efforts by local faith communities to pressure the club to change its controversial name.
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Sojourners, an evangelical Christian advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., launched a petition drive last month wherein Peggy Flanagan, a Native American person of faith, asked fellow believers to help her “sack the ‘Skins.” In addition, Rev. Jim Wallis, the organization’s president, has publicly blasted the name as “a racial slur, a racist epithet.”