GWINNETT INTERFAITH ALLIANCE

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to promote understanding and respect among the different faiths of Gwinnett County by interaction, communication and education.  We will strive to create and enrich the community by working together to promote inclusion and acceptance.  
We will focus on our commonalities while embracing our differences.

You are welcome to join us and help keep our community one that celebrates and gains strength from its diversity."

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Next Meeting - Time: Oct 1, 2020 07:30 PM Eastern Time
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Interfaith Prayer Circle
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Topic: Unity of Mankind
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For more information email Steve Darnowsky at  gwinnettinterfaithalliance@gmail.com.

Gwinnett Interfaith Alliance Endorses Removal of Confederate Monument: 

The Gwinnett Interfaith Alliance strongly endorses the removal of the confederate monument from the lawn of the historic courthouse in Lawrenceville.  As a group consisting of members of many different faiths, we hold in common the core value of using the public space in a way that is respectful of all of Gwinnett County, and not in a way that glorifies a cause that brutalized the ancestors of many members of our community.  The monument was erected in 1993 against a background of expanding growth of the African American population in Gwinnett County.  Instead of memorializing events in Gwinnett County of which the residents could be proud, it marks the approximate location of the lynching of Charles Hale back in 1911.  Both the location and the monument itself are offensive to the Gwinnett Interfaith Alliance, which is trying to foster community and understanding among the many religious faiths of Gwinnett County.  It is offensive to the African American population of Gwinnett County as a reminder of the unjustified belief of white supremacy among those who erected it over a quarter of a century ago.  It is time for the monument to come down.  

STEVE DARNOWSKY ON THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN PUBLIC SPACE