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Listen to Mark Thompson Interview The Rev. Irene Monro about “Obama Harkens Back To Slavery With ‘States’ Rights’ For Same-Sex Marriage”

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

Listen to Mark Thompson Interview The Rev. Irene Monro about “Obama Harkens Back To Slavery With ‘States’ Rights’ For Same-Sex Marriage” (MP3 audio)

July 14, 2011 1 min read Free to read

Listen to Mark Thompson Interview The Rev. Irene Monro about “Obama Harkens Back To Slavery With ‘States’ Rights’ For Same-Sex Marriage” (MP3 audio)

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BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member and Columnist, The Reverend Irene Monroe is an ordained minister, motivational speaker and she speaks for a sector of society that is frequently invisible. Rev. Monroe does a weekly Monday segment, “All Revved Up!” on WGBH (89.7 FM), on Boston Public Radio and a weekly Friday segment “The Take” on New England Channel NEWS (NECN). She’s a Huffington Post blogger and a syndicated religion columnist. Her columns appear in cities across the country and in the U.K, and Canada. Also she writes a column in the Boston home LGBTQ newspaper Baywindows and Cambridge Chronicle. A native of Brooklyn, NY, Rev. Monroe graduated from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African-American church in New Jersey before coming to Harvard Divinity School to do her doctorate. She has received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching several times while being the head teaching fellow of the Rev. Peter Gomes, the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard who is the author of the best seller, THE GOOD

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