A series of inflammatory emails is causing a lot of controversy at one of the District's largest black Baptist churches. The notes expose more than 100 member of Mount Calvary Holy Church as gay.

The woman who wrote them addressed them to the pastor, but forwarded them to more than 300 other parishioners. Six pages of detailed activities and allegations gives explicit details, outing married men, deacons, ushers, and even teenagers. The email asks the pastor to monitor them very closely... Because they are ushering in a presence of sin, lies and a spirit of homosexuality."

All of the people listed are members of the various Mount Calvary choirs and while no one on the list is talking publicly, other member of the church were. "I think that is a bad thing. That they would put someone's name in an email and send it out without permission."

Kevin Broadus called the emails troubling and an invasion of privacy. One member of the choir said while the email may have not been proper, he does agree with their author that homosexuals within the church should seek counseling.

"We all come to the church to be delivered from one thing or another. So homosexuality should be one of those things," said Captain Young.

Bias against homosexuals is not unfamiliar to the black church, according to religious scholar Sylvia Rhue. "African Americans are the most likely to take biblical passages literally. As slaves we were taught that the bible was literal."

As Rhue and other members of the Black Justice Coalition work for change, they see in the emails they have a long road ahead. "Regardless of who you are or what your secrets might be, this is not the way any of us would want those things revealed," said H. Alexander Robinson with the Black Justice Coalition. Mount Calvary has been the focus of topics like this before.

Two years ago, Bishop Alfred Owens used derogatory terms for gay men during a Palm Sunday sermon. The mayor demanded an apology.

As for the emails, Bishop Owens' office says he has no comment.