Meet the High Priest
Posted on 08/01/2005 6:40:25 AM PDT by Crackingham
The words that the Rev. James A. Forbes chose to share with the roomful of black gay and lesbian faithful might have come straight from the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. Forbes reminded his listeners that discrimination has no place in this world and urged them to lay down the notion put forward by some black ministers that they are less favored by God.
"Your job is to get up every day and be grateful to God for your DNA," Forbes said. "It took an artist divine to make this design!"
Forbes, senior minister at the Riverside Church, was among several religious leaders and politicians who attended a revival meeting Sunday aimed at countering what organizers said was a surge in anti-gay rhetoric coming from pulpits in conservative parishes.
The program for the event bore the pictures of 10 black men and women who were murdered, or severely injured, in recent years in attacks believed to have been motivated by their sexual orientation.
Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields likened the treatment of homosexuals today to the discrimination she faced growing up black in the old South, and Arun Gandhi, a grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, drew parallels to the repression once experienced by nonwhite citizens in South Africa.
Religious conservatives have chafed at similar comparisons between the gay rights movement, and civil rights struggles of the past.
The issue has been an especially sensitive one in some predominantly black congregations, where pastors have maintained that homosexuality is a sin or a social disorder that should not be compared with race or ethnicity.
Last winter, hundreds of black clergy attended summits aimed at opposing gay marriage held in cities across the country. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s youngest daughter even led a march through Atlanta to advocate a ban on gay marriage.
Speaking at the Riverside Church, the Rev. Cari Jackson of the Center of Spiritual Light said some conservative black clergy had, perhaps unintentionally, incited hate against lesbians and gays by repeatedly condemning them as sinners.
"Like our slave ancestors," Jackson said, "we are being spiritually, psychologically and physically abused."
What about discrimination against a child molester who wants to be your babysitter?
Love the sinner, hate the sin.
You don't want to be at this church for the Laying On of Hands and the Speaking in Tongues.
A different kind of anointing indeed.
Sick, un-Christian and utterly outside the true church.
How in the **** can they compare slavery to this?
Slave to their passions...maybe.
Again, as I've always said -- these churches need to START THEIR OWN CHURCHES and stop doing hostile take-overs of established faiths. But that would involve "work", and an openess of the secular left ideologic agenda. Can't fool people with that...
Sick, un-Christian and utterly outside the true church.
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Agreed, and we have already seen what is happening to "progressive churches" that do pander to queers. They are losing support VERY FAST.
proof positive that being wrong isn't limited by the color of your skin.
He's just remembering his days in prison.
Note that black preachers that disagree with the homosexual aganda will now be painted with the dreaded conservative word. That will hasten the move of blacks out of the Dem party.
"Embrace" homosexuality.
That carries some disgusting connotations.
How anybody who believes in the God of the Old and New Testament can condone this vicious unnatural perversion is totally beyond me.
It's amazing how some of these black preachers have gotten on board with every racist and destructive aspect of the lefty agenda - especially the open genocide of black babies through Margaret Sanger's "eugenic solution" as made manifest in Planned Parenthood - but I think this espousal of homosexuality could pull the masks off these phony lackeys for the left establishment. In reality, they are the "Uncle Toms" betraying their people for personal gain and should be despised.
Meet the High Priest
At Riverside Church the religion is Leftist Liberalism. All else is negotiable.
Ping for the list.
There IS no comparison! Gays are economically better off than the average AMERICAN, let alone the average Black American. NOBODY knows what your sex life is like unless you tell them; they can't tell by looking at you. Unlike skin color. This is why the Black community reject Gay claims by something like 90%. And most black gay men aren't interested in long-term relationships. It's about sex and "getting a freak on". So, we don't buy into this gay marriage movement, either.
The title of the article generates some disturbing mental images.
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