Posted on 03/11/2015 2:48:35 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
One pastor asserted that Obama cannot relate to the struggle of those who marched 50 years ago.
During a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march in Selma, Ala., Barack Obama offered a speech that left many minority leaders flabbergasted.
“Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was 30 years ago,” he said, leading a number of faith leaders to criticize his equation of the relative struggle for inclusion by blacks and homosexuals.
Breitbart spoke to Coalition of African American Pastors’ member William Owens, who explained backlash to Obama’s comments was near-universal.
“I marched with many people back in those days,” he said, “and I have reached out to some of my friends who marched with me and all of them are shocked.”
Owens went on to criticize Obama even further for the perceived slight, calling him a “disgrace to the black community” and asserting that he is “rewriting history” by including gay rights in a discussion of the 1965 civil rights march.
“We didn’t suffer and die for gay marriage,” he said. “We marched for opportunity, equality, justice, freedom from oppression.”
Furthermore, Obama was not an active member of the civil rights movement, Owens said, but rather a recipient of the advances those activists helped secure.
“He has benefited from those of us who did march,” he said, “but for President Obama to say we marched so that gays would have the right to marry today is a disgrace and a lie.”
Finally, he accused the gay rights movement of using the civil rights message as a catapult from which to launch its own social agenda.
“The LGBT community hijacked our movement,” Owens said, “a movement they know nothing about. President Obama is delusional to compare our struggle with the struggle for marriage equality. Gays have not had fire hoses or dogs unleashed at them. They have not been hung from trees or denied basic human rights.”
Now the hatefull groups of hate groups are going to start hating each other. The enemy of their enemy is the enemy. Obama sure has a way of uniting people, huh.
All those black pastors can go f*ck themselves. They’ve been carrying his water and licking his hand for 6 years and it hasn’t improved anything in the black community. Now I know that at the end of the day, only the black community can fix itself. But, the First Black President has been throwing that entire community under the bus from day one and now a whole fleet of buses is coming with amnesty.
The civil rights movement is a battle for morality. The homosexuality agenda is a battle against morality.
Legit social movements have had their momentum hijacked by unsavory elements since forever.
The communists were experts at that particular tactic.
Obama is more homo than black.
That is why he can’t understand how his comments trivialize what these blacks believe.
something good may yet come out of this!
they tell me that many conservatives are formal liberals who’ve been mugged.
these guys have been mugged...
The same black pastors who flog their congregations to get to the polls and vote in Obama and the rest of the baby-killers.
57 million babies killed, and not a peep from any of these prostitutes.
Many municipal and state laws do, but I think from a Federal standpoint, it is perfectly legal to deny public accommodation to homosexuals.
The issue really is not that the Sodomite community has not 'paid their dues'. The issue is that no one should be discriminated against due to the amount of melanin in their skin. The Bible is clear that we are one family (dysfunctional as heck perhaps, but one family), descended from Noah. Loving your neighbor as yourself, therefore, is going to be colorblind.
Loving your neighbor, though, would not turn a blind-eye to someone trapped in sin, and celebrating a perverted lifestyle. For Obama to equate both movements: the 1960s 'Civil Rights' movement and the current Sodomite perversion celebrations - is obnoxious to the extreme.
What an idiot. When in front of an aggrieved group, you don’t mention other aggrieved groups!
He can’t even do liberalism right.
...And to America.
Here is a black pastor I respect for sure. He tells blacks that they should hold their ground against the world/politicians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4TJie4qwvs
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Your broad brush has missed the mark badly!
There are plenty of Black Pastors that have stood up for the truth.
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'Amen!
Leftist “progressives” distort everything.
Leftist “progressives” distort everything.
His sacred cow has changed and he wanted to let the old cow know it was jilted.
What else do we expect from a Christian hater
0bama is what he is. He threw his grandmother and his pastor of 20 years under the bus to get elected in ‘08 so what the heck did you think he was going to be?
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