Posted on 08/19/2013 3:36:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
The purging of Grammy Award winner Donnie McClurkin from performing at a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 civil rights March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech should serve as yet another wakeup call to Christian black Americans.
McClurkin, a black pastor and gospel music superstar, was asked to step down from his featured performance by Washington Mayor Vincent Gray as result of pressure from homosexual activists. McClurkin preaches against the homosexual lifestyle from his pulpit and says he himself departed and was saved from this lifestyle through God's mercy.
Political correctness and a militant campaign to delegitimize religion and traditional values in America have become more important than our constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech and religion.
Let's recall that earlier this year, the Rev. Louie Giglio of Atlanta, selected by President Barack Obama to give the benediction at his inaugural, was asked to step aside when it was found that over a decade ago he gave a sermon decrying homosexual behavior and lifestyle.
Anyone who thinks this is a good thing, or thinks it doesn't matter, simply doesn't care or get what a free country is about.
When King spoke on the National Mall 50 years ago, he said he came to cash in on behalf of black Americans the "promissory note" guaranteeing the "riches of freedom and the security of justice" transmitted in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
The Constitution's First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
What kind of outrage is it that blacks should be willing to accept, in a ceremony commemorating a signature event in civil rights history, that we witness both abrogation of freedom of speech and freedom of religion?
We live in a free country. Those who don't wish to read the Christian Bible are not forced to. Those who don't wish to live as Christians are not forced to.
But it is quite another thing when traditional Christian values are used as the reason to blacklist a pastor, particularly from an event commemorating black civil rights.
Let's be aware of the concerted effort on the left to purge from memory that Dr. King was a Christian pastor, inspired by the truth of the gospel, who led an organization called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
No reference is made at all to King's Christianity at the new memorial to him on the national mall.
I would argue that it is these very efforts to purge Christian values and replace them with political power that has limited the success and achievement of the civil rights movement.
It is the collapse of black family life, the escalation of crime and disease -- much tied to irresponsible sexual behavior -- that has occurred over the 50 years since the March on Washington that has been so deleterious to black progress.
The civil rights movement was a Christian movement. It is high time that the black pastor, rather than the black politician, return to leadership in black American life. It is time for the Bible, rather than political answers, to define black life.
In a poll done by Zogby International earlier this year, commissioned by BET founder Robert Johnson, 28 percent of blacks agreed and 55 percent disagreed that gay rights are the same thing as rights for African-Americans.
Yet homosexuals have hijacked the civil rights movement. And in doing so, they have interjected the very values that are destroying black communities.
Let's take back our movement.
Rebuild black families by restoring the centrality of traditional Christian values to black life. Only support politicians who sign onto this agenda. And give black parents the choice to get their kids out of public schools and send them to church schools.
Thinking we live in a free country is a great mistake.
This country is only free to those with some sort of minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, Homosexuals ,Dyke women and baby killers are free. For the rest of us -—well ,we just don’t matter.
As for Mayor gray of Washington, no more corrupt ,racist, incompetent ever walked into the District Building.
Unless it was Eleonor Holmes Norton passing through.
The problem with the emancipation proclamation was there was no master to provide direction. Left to fend for them selves, most of the population of freed men learned they were not capable of dealing with freedom. That is still the case, the resurrected village is not capable of dealing with life off the plantation.
For the 5%, adaptation yields the good life.
News flash: the civil rights act was passed almost fifty years ago. It’s over, we’re all free and legally equal. You’re on your own. Make it or fail, it’s up to you. White racism is an irritant, not a problem.
Of course the civil rights industry isn’t going away just because the matter is settled law.
The black preachers need to break their indenture to the Democrat party and refocus on what will truly uplift their flocks.
MLK in reality was just like the modern versions of shamsters. He is just a sacred cow and no one will criticize him. He surrounded himself with commies and perverts and was known to get himself into compromising positions ethically.
I think most damning is his final paper at Chicago Seminary clearly lays out a position on Jesus that precludes MLK from being a real Christian. More of the same quest for the historical Jesus where Jesus didn’t really do any miracles or rise again because he was really only a man and nothing more.
As usual Star knocks it out of the park.
I love Star Parker. May her tribe increase.
I love Star Parker. May her tribe increase.
History is full of examples...and here we are with a few of our own.
If appearances are correct, we have elected a politically radical, muslim bisexual who has told us he is going to fundamentally transform our society.
Many of the "pastors" saw only his appearance and were instrumental in making him our reality, so you'll understand if I skip out on whatever movement is being planned.
This recent adventure in civil rights has given me many a movement ever since it was dumped on US.
It's making us sick. How about we flush this floater?
I deleted my excellant comments on this subject. They were too accurate.
No reference is made at all to King's Christianity at the new memorial to him on the national mall.
Here we go again, pretending that Martin Luther King Jr. was an orthodox chrstian whose movement was stolen from him by those nasty lefties.
King was not an orthodox chrstian at all. He denied all the supernatural chrstian dogmas and his only use for religion was its utilitarian value in promoting secular notions of "justice." He was also a disciple of liberal higher critical German "theologians."
Considering the politics of most Black ministers, I am pretty sure that many of the most vocal and most influential are no more orthodox chrstians than King was. They already control the movement. "Giving it back" to such "pastors" will accomplish nothing.
Why do Black conservatives treat their fellow Blacks like children who aren't yet ready to learn that there is no "Santa Claus?" Why don't they simply tell them the truth about King and his "theology?"
If whites can admit that some of our Founding Fathers were deists, rationalists, and Freemasons, can't Blacks admit something similar about their "founding father?"
Jefferson was accused of the same thing for the same reason. American is a nation based on "self evident" truths that affirm God and religious based morality, i.e. the laws of nature and of nature's God. These are the basis of our Constitution. . .not "correct" theology.
There is the slight difference that Jefferson wasn’t walking around with the title Reverend and speaking at churches as if he’s an ambassador of Christ.
I’m sorry many people don’t like it but liberation theology and black liberation theology especially need to be called out as gross heresy and shunned for what they are - communistic perversions of scripture and Christianity merely using religious garb to hide their twisted interpretations and perversions of historical understood fundamentals of the Christian faith.
MArxist BS through and through imposed in verses and ideas and in code where aren’t. An outright denial of the fundamentals; This isn’t a matter special pleading.
Seminaries shouldn’t teach or reference this stuff as theology except in the modern heresy section. I realize it is treated with kid gloves like so much else because of not wanting to offend and to allow each segment of our society to have something of their own or to have shown they added something of consequence to the table.
Why not just forget the civil rights movement and try to crawl along without it?
The NAACLP version of civil rights should be buried.
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