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Posted on 07/05/2006 7:21:07 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
NEW YORK (CNN) -- During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians. That sentiment is even more appropriate today, more than a year-and-a-half after evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House.
We are a country now locked into an unrighteous conflict overseas, a country where racial equality is still far from realized, and a country that continues to allow poverty to run rampant from coast to coast.
Yet, some high-profile black ministers continue to employ an agenda focused solely on sexually-based themes, like denying a women's right to choose an abortion or a gay couple's right to marry, to rally their congregations and drive a wedge through our people.
Not only are they speaking narrowly on the issues of gay marriage and abortion, but even as the Supreme Court is today taking on affirmative action, there has been silence from the black church.
Many African-Americans recognize the narrowness of scope of these beliefs. To that end, we held a conference -- The National Conference and Revival for Social Justice in the Black Church -- in Dallas, Texas, last week where more than 100 ministers restated and reemphasized what issues are of dire importance to the black populace as a whole.
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Yes, let us take that 40 Ouncer from the hand of the poverty stricken and replace it with a paint brush.
We have people coming up from Mexico willing to work at almost any prce and we have people born here who think $6 an hour is "below them."
Yeah, we "allow" poverty to run rampant.
In a word yes! LOL
This issue has united more black churches, the ones that I know of.
I am wondering what rights Rev. Al has been denied? He is all worked up over something, but it don't look like he has missed any meals. And high dollar suits too. I am sure he is worth mega times my worldly accumulations but that's okay. I had to work for mine.
Pagones v. Maddux, Mason and Sharpton
...Brawley, now 25 and called Maryam Muhammad, appeared after 10-year silence at a Brooklyn rally the night before her advisors' trial began to insist once more that her charges are true.
Her case was ultimately thrown out in 1988 when a grand jury determined that her story was not credible.
Justice S. Barrett Hickman of the New York State Supreme Court has allowed that report to be included as evidence in the current trial.
On July 13, 1998, after a trial lasting almost eight months, a jury found the three advisors liable for defaming Pagones.
Somewhere, somehow this bloke got a certificate that lets him put a Reverend in front of his name.
But he spends less of his time ministering to his flock and most of his time playing politics.
Ironically, only Leftist clergy are allowed to opine in the political arena. Conservative clergy are forbidden due to the maintenance of the separation between church and state... The arbitrary application is proof that there is something wrong with current interpretation of that particular clause in our bill of rights. Especially considering since those words don't even appear in the text.
LOL Mega Barf!
Why does our media publish anything this idiot has to say?
I hate to tell him this, but conservative black preachers are busy teaching the Word of God, holding church services that worship Him and try to win souls to the Lord Jesus Christ. Their motives are not political, nor should they be.
How he and Jackson can call themselves "Rev." is a mystery to me.
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And the most absurb use of the civil rights movement and Blacks by the homosexual/pederast/lesbian/transgender/bisexual community of loving perverts is to suggest that perverts are undergoing a similar struggle for freedom. Blacks are highly resentful of being compared to sexual deviants and who can blame them.
Whenever we try to lock it up, Sharpton and his crew start protesting.
I thought that Christians should be going and preaching the gospel. Not promoting "equality" in his sense of the word. Equality, is equality in Christ's eyes. For ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Homosexuals are sinners just like drunks, liars, adulterers.... they are treated equally in that they are given the chance to repent. Any Reverend worth his weight would desire for these people to repent of their sins and move into a relationship with Jesus Christ. Christianity is about a relationship with Christ to further Christs kingdom. Peace and equality is nothing if the truth of Jesus is not shared.
PS. FYI. Check out "The Party of Death" and you will see that one Jesse Jackson had a very different idea than his current one about the truths about abortion, back before he injected himself into the camera lens.
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