Reverend Carlton W. Veazey is a minister in the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A.

National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.

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, and the President of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice was founded in 1973 by clergy and lay leaders from mainline denominations and faith traditions to provide interfaith support for the new constitutional right to privacy in decisions about abortion...

 (RCRC). Veazey founded RCRC's National Black Church Initiative.
Veazey was the 7th pastor of the Zion Baptist Church of DC from 1960 to 1993, when he was removed by vote of the membership.
Veazey is a graduate from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff

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 and the Howard University School of Divinity

Howard University

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In addition to being an outspoken proponent of reproductive rights

Reproductive rights

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, he has also been an outspoken critic of theocracy

Theocracy

Theocracy is a form of organization in which the official policy is to be governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided, or simply pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religious sect or religion....

 in the United States and Christian fundamentalism

Evangelicalism

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He is a collaborator to the bulletin Religion Dispatches

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