Reverend León vs. Dr. Carson

National Review ^ | 04/02/2013 | Jonah Goldberg

[SeekAndFind]

I’ve been out of pocket, so I missed most of the hullabaloo about Reverend Luis León’s indefensible Easter sermon at St. John’s Episcopal Church in front of the Obama family. Among his comments he said the “religious Right” wants “blacks to be back in the back of the bus, for women to be back in the kitchen, for gays to be in the closet, and for immigrants to be on their side of the border.”

Once you get beyond the nasty, clichéd and divisive insinuations about conservatives being racists and the basic inappropriateness of the whole spectacle, it seems to me the obvious point is to compare the reaction to Ben Carson’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast and the reaction to León’s remarks. When Carson made his pointed, but hardly outrageous, comments at the National Prayer Breakfast, he came under withering and outrageous assault from many liberals. He sullied a nonpartisan event! Well, what the hell do you call an Easter-morning church service? Carson didn’t call anyone racist. He didn’t denounce anyone’s fidelity to their faith. He offered some conservative public-policy proposals, touted his scholarship fund, and recounted his inspiring personal story. And that was supposed to be an outrage. It will be interesting to see who leaps to León’s defense and more interesting to see who doesn’t.

[Bob]

If it weren’t for double standards, leftists wouldn’t have any standards at all.

[Rummyfan]

Among his comments he said the “religious Right” wants “blacks to be back in the back of the bus, for women to be back in the kitchen, for gays to be in the closet, and for immigrants to be on their side of the border.”

All I want is for leftist loons like Reverend Leon to STFU!

[Servant of the Cross]

"If it weren’t for double standards, leftists wouldn’t have any standards at all."

Now that's a tagline!

[mardi59]

This is a true man of God. Perhaps Leon could learn something from him. God bless our Pope Francis.

[SMARTY]

No problem. “O” is habituated to sitting still for barely-disguised hate speech, idiotic loudmouth drivel and patently irreligious rants from pseudo ‘pastors’ and ‘reverends’.

That ‘reverend’ was where he wanted to be all his life and “O” was in the ONLY place where he actually BELONGS...front and center at an Anti-American rally which is passing for a church service.

The blind leading the stupid!

[Dr. Ursus]

Ya,gotta play to you audience!

[bandleader]

“The Left”ALWAYS accuses us of what they are doing!They spew HATE and INTOLERANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Taft in '52]

Last night on Fox News, Sean Hannity was debating radio talk show host Leo Terrell on this issue. Hannity asked Terrell to name one member of the "religious right" who advocated sending blacks to be back in the back of the bus, women back to the kitchen, homosexuals back into the closet, and immigrants to the other side of the border. That question silenced the motormouth Terrell, whose expression resembled that of a deer staring into the headlights of an oncoming truck. After several seconds of dead air, Terrell lamely tried to change the subject.

Hannity was at the top of his game last night.

[7thson]

Do not forget Cal Thomas who blasted Dr. Carson. Let’s see if he does the same to Rev. Leon.

[rcrngroup]

Do not forget Cal Thomas who blasted Dr. Carson. Let’s see if he does the same to Rev. Leon.

Oh, but Dr. Benjamin Carson's remarks were at a "non-partisan prayer breakfast" while Reverend Leon's remarks were only at an supposedly tolerant, forgiving, non-judgemental, liberal theology, loving "Easter" morning service.

Therefore according to RINO / CINO Cal Thomas - Dr. Carson - BAD!!! Reverend Leon - silence SHhhhhhh!

Not a single Repub or GOP-e will rebuke Reverend Leon's hateful remarks!