Posted on 05/29/2008 6:48:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Praised Wright, Criticized Traditional Black Churches on Homosexuality By Penny Starr CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer May 29, 2008
(CNSNews.com) - In an Apr. 10 interview with The Advocate magazine, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said "homophobic" messages are coming from the pulpits of black churches because blacks attend church more regularly than other people and interpret the Bible more traditionally. In the same interview, Obama praised the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor and long-time spiritual adviser, for being on the right side of the homosexual debate.
"There's plenty of homophobia to go around, but you have a unique perspective into the African-American community," Kerry Eleveld, news editor of The Advocate , a homosexual publication, said to Obama, during the interview.
"I don't think it's worse than in the white community," Obama replied. "I think that the difference has to do with the fact that the African-American community is more churched and most African-American churches are still fairly traditional in their interpretations of Scripture."
"And so from the pulpit or in sermons you still hear homophobic attitudes expressed," said Obama. "And since African-American ministers are often the most prominent figures in the African-American community, those attitudes get magnified or amplified a little bit more than in other communities."
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I didn't know homosexuality as a sin was interpretable in the bible. Is Barry actually saying one can interpret the bible concerning homosexuality and find that the bible supports homosexual relationships and gay marriage?!?
Leviticus is clear on this point. Any other view is "pick-n-choose" Biblical interpretation.
So how many homosexuals go to Wright’s show?
Well, three of them ended up dead
Is Obama about to convert and become an Episcopalian?
“Is Barry actually saying one can interpret the bible concerning homosexuality and find that the bible supports homosexual relationships and gay marriage?!?”
He has clearly never read the Bible, so disregard anything he says about it.
Maybe his great-uncle did while up in the attic!
“Maybe his great-uncle did while up in the attic!”
Perhaps, but Obama clearly hasn’t while in the closet.
What a load a crap. The bible is very clear about the sin of being a fag. What’s next, let’s all covet thy neighbor’s wife.
When I was in Bible college I did some street ministry in the “gay” part of the city. Those who would actually stop and converse with me would tell me that the only time homosexuality is a sin is when an individual who was not born that way behaved that way.
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