From "Sharing 'Your' God With Others"

So often out of fear that we may be trampled, rejected, disrespected or hurt by mortals, we create and cling to a brand of faith that is circumscribed by the limits of our own vision, but true faith binds our kinship with all who yearn to be free from the yoke of sin.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was willing to endure all manner of questioning from his own ranks in order to declare this universal message. When he spoke out against the Viet Nam War, his own accused him of overreaching his boundary, of focusing on things that were not his business. The principalities and powers accused him of abandoning his mission by focusing on economic rights rather than civil rights. And in these days when we "honor" him, we have recaptured him and re-domesticated him as a leader of Black people only.
The Apostle Paul still cries out from the grave, begging the church to affirm our universal calling, laity and clergy alike, Jew and Greek alike, male and female alike, black and white alike, gay and straight alike, citizen and immigrant alike. For all God's children belong to one another. He is their Lord and ours.
(Ref. 1 Corinthians 1:2)