In a Tuesday statement on her Facebook account, she added her gratitude for those who have offered her support.
“To the Black women who, even in their silence, have rallied behind sexism and misogynoir; and to the Black men who have viciously and thoughtlessly attacked me in their attempt to maintain aspirational patriarchy in the Black Church, ‘the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23),’” she wrote.
Abyssinian is the subject of another lawsuit filed in October by some members of the church seeking to have the “purported election” of Johnson annulled. A GoFundMe page, titled “Help Us To Restore Integrity at Abyssinian,” has raised more than $104,000 toward a $200,000 goal to pay for the legal costs of that suit.
A March 25 update on the page referred to the funeral of Grammy-winning singer Roberta Flack, held at the church earlier in the month, and noted that Johnson had called the church the “Black Vatican” on that occasion.
The update added: “a well-attended celebrity funeral does not erase or correct the many wrongdoings that have occurred over the past year concerning the pastoral election process.”
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