title: Carlton W. Veazey
text: # Carlton W. Veazey
  
  Reverend Carlton W. Veazey is a minister in the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., and the President of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (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 and the Howard University School of Divinity.
  
  From April 3, 1970, to Aug 8, 1973 he was a Republican member of Washington, DC's appointed City Council just before the beginning of home rule, having been appointed by Nixon.
  
  In addition to being an outspoken proponent of reproductive rights, he has also been an outspoken critic of theocracy in the United States and Christian fundamentalism.
  
  He is a collaborator to the bulletin Religion Dispatches.
  
  