Posted on 01/23/2012 3:57:55 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Mother Jones has a profile up about Reverend O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who runs the Worldwide Christian Centor in Pompano Beach, Florida, who currently serves as the honorary chairman of Rick Santorum‘s Florida campaign. Dozier is a well-known social conservative who obviously shares many of Santorum’s views on issues like gay marriage, but has made rather controversial statements that have raised people’s eyebrows over his connections to the GOP candidate.
In a video posted online, Dozier explains his church preaches “the dangers of Islam and Islamic fascism,” and once proudly boasted that God is “100 percent for capital punishment.” But at the same convention where he made the latter statement, he stated that homosexuality is “so nasty and disgusting that it makes God want to vomit.”
[T]he rise of tea party politics gave Dozier a new calling. He campaigned vigorously for Rep. Allen West, an African-American conservative who shares Dozier’s views on gays and Muslims. West has spoken at Worldwide Christian Center’s services, quoting a John Adams letter that claims “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.” And Dozier can often be found on Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale, hoisting signs and holding court with the powerful local tea party. “The tea party is a godly ordained party,” he’s said. At one recent event, he expanded the thesis: “God would never ordain a government to take from the rich to give to the poor, you see, so therefore God is not a socialist. God is not a Robin Hood.”
Those sentiments, and Dozier’s revitalized reputation in the black community, seem to have struck the right chord with Santorum’s campaign.
Santorum hosted a forum with Dozier today called the “Sanctity of Life Sunday.” After initially supporting Cain, Dozier shifted his support to Santorum because “he’s not a compromiser” or “a politically correct kind of guy.”
>> Wanna bet how much more brutally the MSM treats him,
The last thing the Media wants is to indirectly buttress the traditional Black stance on homosexuality. The Media will let this slip away.
God detests all sin in equal measure. That’s why Christ died on the cross to save us from ALL of it. There’s no sliding scale.
"For God so loved the world that HE gave HIS one and only Son, that whoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16
Thank you for posting this thread. I have read each comment and learned much. I am encouraged to learn of this Pastor and his determination to stand with God in the face of adversity. I am a Santorum supporter. I appreciate his understanding of the importance of social issues to the overall health of our nation.
That is his platform - his shoes are filled with self righteousness. He needs to take off his ‘platform shoes’ - they are repulsive.
You seem to refer to this "sin category" thing as some-type of fact, which means it would have to have its source in scripture.
Please direct me to the Bible verses where those "sin categories" are listed.
Considering the Gay members of Government and the media,
Rick will be the one pounded over the head for the next week and I’m sure he will be asked about it at every debate.
I wonder how many voters agree with this Minister?
This guy has made a number of harsh comments about gays, Mormons and others. He does not speak of “hating the sin and loving the sinner.” He uses firey rhetoric like this. No pastor should say something like this — I don’t believe in gay marriage or the gay agenda yet I view statements like this as juvenille and not worthy of a man of God.
And it points out a “double standard” in the media. To put it bluntly, the media covers up the fact that blacks have much harsher attitudes about gays than white people do. Yet that doesn’t fit into a PC narrative about all minorities banding together.
Homosexuality makes ME want to vomit.
I am increasingly wondering how many **CONSERVATIVES** agree with this minister.
Stuff that was pretty much universally believed in the conservative movement a generation ago about the importance of moral values now seems to be up for debate.
I'm concerned and frankly scared by a significant portion of what I see on Free Republic in this election cycle. I know it's not the official position of Free Republic and it's a minority position, but there is a consistent undercurrent of opposition to a moral foundation for government that scares me.
I live in a military community in the Bible Belt where our secular conservatives tend to be pretty straight-arrow people who generally believe in basic principles of decency and family values. I can think of several local Republican politicians who make no claim to be churchgoers but stay married to one woman and have kids who seem to be from decent stable families. I just don't hear locally some of the things I've been seeing on Free Republic recently attacking Christian conservatives, and it worries me if what I'm seeing here reflects trends in the broader national conservative movement.
I've read conservative commentators write that there's been a shift in the way Young Republicans act on college campuses. It's more than going from a button-down preppy look to a grunge rocker look comparable to the nastiest stuff from the sixties — it's a fundamental shift in the definitition of conservative from “family, faith and patriotism” to “get big government out of my life.”
Obviously family values are quite compatible with small government, but when conservative is defined as “getting the government out of my bedroom,” we have adopted the same rhetoric as Democrats of a few decades ago.
That's dangerous.
Being conservative and being libertarian are not the same thing. Ron Paul is not a conservative, and people who advocate libertarian views in the Republican Party simply do not understand that American government was never intended by **MOST** of the Founding Fathers to be a secular government. That's what distinguished the French Revolution from the American Revolution, and led to the growth of America while leading France into the Reign of Terror with its vicious attacks on religion which continue to this day in that officially secular state.
I'm glad that Gingrich told a gay man he'd be better off voting for Barack Obama. Good for him. I wish I could trust the rest of the conservatives in the Republican Party to say the same.
You are correct the Trends are more liberal among many who call themselves Christian Conservatives, the politically correct and hate crime bills that back it made many squeamish about posting how they really feel in this Country.
The Judicial attacks on the Conservative Christians has also helped the left.
That is why Newt Gingrich is proving to be the candidate with enough courage to take them on. So I am with you for Newt Gingrich and pray he can prevail to be our next President.
Clarification: I'm not happy with any of the candidates, but at this point I'm probably going to vote for Rick Santorum. I don't really have much choice in the primary since Gingrich didn't get his name on the Missouri primary ballot, and the race will probably be over by the time the Missouri caucuses are held.
But yes, I probably could vote for Newt Gingrich and if things go the way they seem to be going, he may end up being the best remaining choice to stop Romney.
As I said Rick Santorum must not get into attacking the other candidates as his mantra, instead he needs to attack the Obamanites and show how he will defeat them, or his campaign will have no traction left.
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