ok, but let’s stop with the FR posts that say gays need to vote GOP for their own best interests. Either stop those posts - or stop snarking and sniping about Obama being supposedly gay. Can’t have it both ways
Moreover, Christians are actually told to not associate with such a one claiming to be a brother when they are flagrantly unrepentant.
What are we then to say?
Paul wrote both that homosexuals cannot inherit the Kingdom and also, immediately thereafter, “and such were some of you” meaning that repentance is possible even from those sins.
But of anyone, claiming to be a brother, who is a: such are you still ... such a person is only fooling themselves.
And if such a person is slyly bringing their sin into the congregation and enticing others to do the same -— never mind if they are bold and demanding doctrine change to suit them ... or just simply subverting it as Wright is described in the OP as doing for this down low sub-culture -— then how much greater will be their condemnation?
Just for fairness sake I would like to point out that while Wright and Obama may have known each other before he started going to that congregation, it would seem that Obama didn’t even start going there till after he needed to seem to be Christian for his political advantage, which was also after he married.
So it seems unlikely to me that Wright helped him find his bride as the OP suggest he may have done for others.
So what we’re then seeing described may actually be two separate things: fear of being seen as critical of Obama and fear of the power of the homosexuals. It does not follow that they are one and the same in Obama’s case.