'A heavy lift': Religious black voters weigh Buttigieg's bid

AP / Yahoo News and the Church at Laodicea ^ | August 16, 2019 | MEG KINNARD ,Associated Press

[SaveFerris]

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Joe Darby, a South Carolina pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, pondered a sensitive question that he knew was on the mind of his congregation. Would black voters be able to reconcile their conservative religious doctrine with voting for a gay candidate for president?

"It's a heavy lift in the black church," says Darby, who is also a Charleston-area NAACP leader. "Just as nobody who is racist likes to say, 'I'm a racist,' nobody who is homophobic in the black community likes to say, 'I'm homophobic.'"

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"I'm interested to see how Buttigieg is going to play," said Darby, saying that the mayor "does the best job of articulating his faith of any of the candidates" but is inherently running up against barriers with those to whom he's still an unknown. "The most damning comment was at a clergy breakfast, and when his name was brought up another guy said, 'Yeah, that's the guy who kissed his husband on TV.'"

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Jon Black, an AME pastor along South Carolina's coast in Bluffton, said that he presumes the church will ultimately move past any divisions over homosexuality and same-sex marriage, as it did previously with divorce.

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"If it gets down to two or three candidates and one happens to be gay, I don't think that would be a problem for black communities," Black said.

[SaveFerris]

Exactly

[Salamander]

I don’t know how any “practicing” homo can even speak of their “faith”.

Does he repent and ask forgiveness after every rump romp?

[SaveFerris]

The Devil and Satan knew exactly what he was doing when he installed Barack Hussein Obama into power.

Confusion of all that is normal. That's why Isaiah 5:20 has been the order of the day in America since 2008 (especially).

That these people even speak such things is absurdity and spirit of antichrist on display.

[SisterK]

Yep. Some things are non negotiable.

[SaveFerris]

I knew we were in trouble when a man like him was elected. He may not be the guy, but he does a very fine impression with mass delusion of fools.

[northislander]

How can a homo called buddy gig run for POTUS and not be a global laughing stock...

[SaveFerris]

[How can a homo called buddy gig run for POTUS and not be a global laughing stock...]

The same way a dude in Spain wins a beauty contest for women. Spirit of antichrist. World-wide. Global insanity. Next up, a peace deal dividing Israel for 7 years and the Antichrist. I won't pretend to know what date that happens, just that you can rest assured that the blind leading the blind in these churches will be right on board with all of that.

[northislander]

The world is overflowing with blind guides...

[Old Yeller]

If they were really conservative, they wouldn’t be DemonicRats.