I thought this was a very interesting article from the site BlackNews.com. He tracks the public dialog about tolerance toward toward gays in the black community back to former NFL star Reggie White (an ordained Pentacostal minister) and the intolerant remarks he made about homosexuality before the Wisconsin state legislature in 1997.
The article cites poll results that show the Africian-American community remains overwhelmingly opposed to same-sex marriage, and that the numbers really aren't moving.
The writer also walks through the process where supporters of a state constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage in Virginia used black ministers to help them pass it.
Here's how the article is summed up:
".....the few black ministers that preach a message of tolerance even as their church’s hemorrhage with dwindling memberships and collections should be applauded. That’s the true Christian message; a message that many Christians seem to have forgotten."
Amen to that.
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Just wandered over to this site and I have a general question about the name of this site:
ReplyDeleteWhy straight, and not narrow? Didn't Jesus say the door to life was narrow in Matt 7:14?
I took the name because that was a phrase one of my gay church brothers used to describe me. It signifies a straight person who is not narrow minded, who is open to receiving the FULL revelation from God regarding the place of GLBT people in His kingdom.
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