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Obama’s Shocking Comparison Has Black Pastors Calling Him A ‘Disgrace’
Western Journalism ^ | 3-11-15 | Christopher Agee

Posted on 03/11/2015 2:48:35 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

One pastor asserted that Obama cannot relate to the struggle of those who marched 50 years ago.

During a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march in Selma, Ala., Barack Obama offered a speech that left many minority leaders flabbergasted.

“Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was 30 years ago,” he said, leading a number of faith leaders to criticize his equation of the relative struggle for inclusion by blacks and homosexuals.

Breitbart spoke to Coalition of African American Pastors’ member William Owens, who explained backlash to Obama’s comments was near-universal.

“I marched with many people back in those days,” he said, “and I have reached out to some of my friends who marched with me and all of them are shocked.”

Owens went on to criticize Obama even further for the perceived slight, calling him a “disgrace to the black community” and asserting that he is “rewriting history” by including gay rights in a discussion of the 1965 civil rights march.

“We didn’t suffer and die for gay marriage,” he said. “We marched for opportunity, equality, justice, freedom from oppression.”

Furthermore, Obama was not an active member of the civil rights movement, Owens said, but rather a recipient of the advances those activists helped secure.

“He has benefited from those of us who did march,” he said, “but for President Obama to say we marched so that gays would have the right to marry today is a disgrace and a lie.”

Finally, he accused the gay rights movement of using the civil rights message as a catapult from which to launch its own social agenda.

“The LGBT community hijacked our movement,” Owens said, “a movement they know nothing about. President Obama is delusional to compare our struggle with the struggle for marriage equality. Gays have not had fire hoses or dogs unleashed at them. They have not been hung from trees or denied basic human rights.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackpastors; civilrights; gaymarriage; lgbt; obamaselmaspeech; obamaspeech; selma; selmaanniversary
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1 posted on 03/11/2015 2:48:35 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Now the hatefull groups of hate groups are going to start hating each other. The enemy of their enemy is the enemy. Obama sure has a way of uniting people, huh.


2 posted on 03/11/2015 2:52:18 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

All those black pastors can go f*ck themselves. They’ve been carrying his water and licking his hand for 6 years and it hasn’t improved anything in the black community. Now I know that at the end of the day, only the black community can fix itself. But, the First Black President has been throwing that entire community under the bus from day one and now a whole fleet of buses is coming with amnesty.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/09/naacp-leader-slams-obamas-executive-amnesty-our-kids-have-dreams-too-video/


3 posted on 03/11/2015 2:52:46 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The civil rights movement is a battle for morality. The homosexuality agenda is a battle against morality.


4 posted on 03/11/2015 2:55:17 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Legit social movements have had their momentum hijacked by unsavory elements since forever.

The communists were experts at that particular tactic.


5 posted on 03/11/2015 2:57:32 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Obama is more homo than black.

That is why he can’t understand how his comments trivialize what these blacks believe.


6 posted on 03/11/2015 2:59:21 PM PDT by Iron Munro
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To: afraidfortherepublic

something good may yet come out of this!

they tell me that many conservatives are formal liberals who’ve been mugged.

these guys have been mugged...


7 posted on 03/11/2015 3:00:55 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The same black pastors who flog their congregations to get to the polls and vote in Obama and the rest of the baby-killers.

57 million babies killed, and not a peep from any of these prostitutes.


8 posted on 03/11/2015 3:01:28 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Steely Tom
While many Federal Laws address racial discrimination, I do not think that any touch on discrimination of homosexuals.

Many municipal and state laws do, but I think from a Federal standpoint, it is perfectly legal to deny public accommodation to homosexuals.

9 posted on 03/11/2015 3:01:42 PM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: afraidfortherepublic
...Gays have not had fire hoses or dogs unleashed at them. They have not been hung from trees or denied basic human rights...

The issue really is not that the Sodomite community has not 'paid their dues'. The issue is that no one should be discriminated against due to the amount of melanin in their skin. The Bible is clear that we are one family (dysfunctional as heck perhaps, but one family), descended from Noah. Loving your neighbor as yourself, therefore, is going to be colorblind.

Loving your neighbor, though, would not turn a blind-eye to someone trapped in sin, and celebrating a perverted lifestyle. For Obama to equate both movements: the 1960s 'Civil Rights' movement and the current Sodomite perversion celebrations - is obnoxious to the extreme.

10 posted on 03/11/2015 3:02:01 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

What an idiot. When in front of an aggrieved group, you don’t mention other aggrieved groups!

He can’t even do liberalism right.


11 posted on 03/11/2015 3:04:00 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Owens went on to criticize Obama even further for the perceived slight, calling him a “disgrace to the black community”

...And to America.

12 posted on 03/11/2015 3:10:08 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Here is a black pastor I respect for sure. He tells blacks that they should hold their ground against the world/politicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4TJie4qwvs


13 posted on 03/11/2015 3:14:01 PM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: qaz123

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Your broad brush has missed the mark badly!

There are plenty of Black Pastors that have stood up for the truth.

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14 posted on 03/11/2015 3:14:36 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: qaz123
All those black pastors can go f*ck themselves. They’ve been carrying his water and licking his hand for 6 years and it hasn’t improved anything in the black community.

'Amen!

15 posted on 03/11/2015 3:20:57 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Leftist “progressives” distort everything.


16 posted on 03/11/2015 3:21:33 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Leftist “progressives” distort everything.


17 posted on 03/11/2015 3:21:33 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

His sacred cow has changed and he wanted to let the old cow know it was jilted.


18 posted on 03/11/2015 3:22:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

What else do we expect from a Christian hater


19 posted on 03/11/2015 3:23:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

0bama is what he is. He threw his grandmother and his pastor of 20 years under the bus to get elected in ‘08 so what the heck did you think he was going to be?


20 posted on 03/11/2015 3:28:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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