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'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
Posted on 08/16/2019 9:31:31 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; antichrist; apostasy; bible; blackchurch; christianvote; lastdays; prophecy; spiritofantichrist
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To: thoughtomator
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posted on
08/16/2019 11:36:08 AM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
I don’t know how any “practicing” homo can even speak of their “faith”.
Does he repent and ask forgiveness after every rump romp?
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posted on
08/16/2019 12:56:37 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
To: Salamander
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.
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posted on
08/16/2019 1:32:27 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
Yep. Some things are non negotiable.
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posted on
08/16/2019 1:48:28 PM PDT
by
SisterK
(its a spiritual war)
To: SisterK
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.
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posted on
08/16/2019 1:59:44 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
How can a homo called buddy gig run for POTUS and not be a global laughing stock...
To: northislander
[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.
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posted on
08/16/2019 2:15:44 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
The world is overflowing with blind guides...
To: SaveFerris
If they were really conservative, they wouldn’t be DemonicRats.
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posted on
08/16/2019 6:02:35 PM PDT
by
Old Yeller
(Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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