Opinion - We'll miss you William Sloane Coffin

(from The Advocate, May 23, 2006 edition)

"For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptual passages that condemn it but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ."
- Reverend William Sloane Coffin

The Reverend William Sloane Coffin, 81, the former chaplain of Yale University and a well-known crusader for social justice, including gay rights (died) of congestive heart failure at his home in Strafford, VT, April 12. Coffin was the inspiration for a character in cartoonist Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury - the Reverend Scot Sloan.