African-American pastors are being recruited in Virginia by proponents of a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.
The goal, of course, is to entice the pastors of African-American churches to mobilize their congregations to turn out at the ballot box and vote for this amendment. Remember, Virgnia is the home base of both Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, so there's plenty of right-wing money and influence to go around, but supporters of the amendment aren't taking any chances.
"African-American churches and social conservatives have more in common in our belief system than anyone could imagine," Chris Freund, of the Family Foundation, told a group of mostly black and Latino ministers last month at Pat Robertson's Regent University.
I hope pastors are sharp enough to see through this transparent and very temporary alliance. I hate seeing any group of well-meaning people used, especially in a campaign designed to restrict the rights of a state's citizens.
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Sadly, this alliance will "take," at least as far as LesBiGay issues go. Conservative ideology that speaks to human sexuality is indeed shared across racial lines. The only hope we have of derailing this Hate Train is for Christians of conscience to speak out within the churches . . . and that includes Lesbian and Gay Christians of conscience. One of these days, the Supreme Court needs to address the glaring injustice of ballot measures that rob citizens of their civil rights. I really don't understand how it can be considered constitutional!
ReplyDelete"You still have the white/black Sunday morning separation there," McFarland said. "But when it comes to morality, I think we line up."
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, "sex," be it same-sex love or opposite-sex love, is viewed synonymously with "morality," and not the sins that cause the death and degradation of our fellow human beings, such as war and poverty. Where are the professing Christians, Black or White, who lament and condemn as "immoral" the fact that there are currently 45million Americans without needed health insurance?
Why the single-minded obsession about condemnation regarding sexual matters, and actually believing that with all of the corporate sins that exist, God is unduly concerned with who loves who and who sleeps with who? As I mentioned elsewhere, such single-minded obsession with condemnation, allying oneself with the most rabid, right wing forces in society, and with those who have historically made it necessary for there to be Black churches in the first place, tells us far more about the intelligence, discernment, emotional makeup, spirituality, and the understanding of the Gospel of grace by those who condemn than about anything else.