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IN METHODIST STRONGHOLD, A DIALOGUE ON GAY RIGHTS
Ocean Grove has a substantial gay populatn, and many of them live full time the Grove. Except for a few notable clash wh the Camp Meetg Associatn, most gays town like livg here. I recently asked a gay Grover what the difference is between the gays the Grove and those who live Asbury Park.
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But recent years, tensns have flared as gay rints and vatners have flocked to Ocean Grove, which is next door to Asbury Park, a cy that has evolved to a thrivg gay travel statn. Harriet Bernste, 70, a retired schoolteacher and longtime Ocean Grove rint, has been at the center of a ntug bate between the muny’s Christian learship and s expandg gay populatn. ” The latt skirmish epted last weekend when Kirk Cameron, a former s actor who is now a nservative Christian activist, gave a lecture here on strengtheng marriag, over the objectn of gay groups who had wanted the town’s learship to ncel the event.
Cameron me unr fire this year by gay-rights groups after an terview wh Piers Man on CNN which he scribed homosexualy as “unnatural” and “stctive. Cameron’s talk generated anger, another episo last weekend showed that those on different sis of the issue of gay rights were tryg to reach some Mr. Paster among members of the Camp Meetg Associatn and several gay-rights advot.
Whiln said of Ocean Grove’s gay muny. Reprentative Frank Pallone, a Democrat and a supporter of gay rights, sat near Mr.