Posted on 02/19/2008 5:19:44 AM PST by abigail2
Charles Barkley Must Apologize For ‘Fake Christians’ Remark Or Face Suspension, Says Rev. Peterson
Former NBA star and TNT basketball analyst Charles Barkley attacked Christian conservatives Friday on CNN’s The Situation Room news show, referring to them as “fake Christians” and “hypocritical” people. Barkley has endorsed Barack Obama and has a problem with conservative Republican stances against abortion and homosexual marriage. He repeatedly told CNN anchorman Wolf Blitzer “I’m pro-choice” and “I’m for gay marriage.” Conservative radio talk show host Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is calling on Barkley to apologize for his bigoted remarks or face pressure for TNT to suspend him.
“If a white conservative Republican commentator called liberal Christians who support Obama and Hillary ‘fake Christians’ he would be publicly repudiated by the liberal press,” said Rev. Peterson. “Barkley is getting a pass because he’s a black liberal Democrat attacking Christian conservatives. The man is a bigot and has no moral character. He should apologize for his remarks.”
Since the early 90’s Barkley has had a checkered record. In two separate incidents he was reportedly arrested and charged with assault and disorderly conduct for allegedly throwing one man through a plate-glass window and breaking another man’s nose. In 1991 he allegedly spat on a young girl in New Jersey while trying to go after a heckler. He’s also been caught on tape saying, “I hate white people.”
“I can think of at least four white public figures who have been fired or suspended for comments deemed offensive to blacks including: Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.); shock jock Don Imus; Dune “DOG” Chapman; and The Golf Channel’s Kelly Tilghman. Despite making public apologies, all these people were mercilessly hounded and excoriated by the liberal press. So, where’s the demand for an apology and suspension of Barkley for his offensive comments about Christian conservatives?” asked Rev. Peterson.
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is the founder and president of BOND, the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny. He's also the host of “The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show.” For more information, visit www.bondinfo.org
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LOL,good point... they are supposedly “Christians”.
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Reportedly? allegedly?
Either did or he didn't. Did he go to trial? Was he convicted? This sort of unsubstantiated character attack is not what one would expect of a Reverend, is it?
We just want an apology and suspension.
suspension...look like going for his head and censorship...I prefer to let him talk....mho
Are people in AL really waiting to elect him governor after they voted for Oprah’s O BAMA in the primary?
They need some affirmative action. It doesn’t matter if they are the best tallent, they need to be exposed to some different culture and lifetyle than the gansta-hiphop-bling thing. Wonder how that ideas going to fly?
Sir Charles makes Mc Cain’s demeanor seem measured.
The NBA is still around?
I agree. Let him keep talking. That way there will be more footage to use against him when he runs for Governor of Alabama as he keeps promising, er, threatening to do!
Barkley should stick to what he knows...basketball and eating.LOL
I’ll listen to Charlie when he talks about something he knows about, i.e. jock itch.
HAH! Well, I have something in common with him! Eating!
Funny that the left makes fun of Bush, and assumes he’s an idiot, because he can’t speak eloquently,
but if anybody were to make fun of Barkley’s STUPID, rambling, INCOHERENT speach, they’d be branded a racist.
Addressing the content of his speech, Barkley uses the same arrogant, ignorant, self serving leftist misinterpretation of a certain bible passage - judge not lest ye be judged - to say that we shouldn’t judge anyone. How TOTALLY STUPID. God is all about judging sin, that’s why we have to have Jesus as a savior, because we all sin.
Charley - the rest of the passage is “by the same measure”, meaning, we shouldn’t hold others to standards that we ourselves are not willing to uphold. Get it, you idiot leftists?
The BEST part is how right after he makes all of these stupid remarks, he says that he is positioning himself for his run for governor of Alabama.
The good news is, all his remarks will NOT DETHRONE GOD!
The Word of God will stand forever!
And, the bible has many passages refuting, or downright condemning, the concepts of socialism that the left supports.
No way can they be biblically literate and support socialism.
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