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"Ninure Saunders" |
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10 Nov 2004 08:25:06 AM |
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(!) CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR ANTI-GAY VOTERS |
(!) CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR ANTI-GAY VOTERS
by Cynthia Tucker
Published in the Albany Times Union on: 11/09/04
"The Old Testament did sanction slavery. God said, 'Both thy bondmen and
thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are
round about you. . . . And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your
children. . . .' " "Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural
Institution," Rev. Richard Fuller, 1847
Last Tuesday, there was at least one thing about which blue states and red
states, black Americans and white Americans, Northerners and Southerners
could agree: Gays and lesbians should be denied the right to full
citizenship. Constitutional amendments to ban same-sex unions appeared on
the ballot in 11 states and passed easily from Michigan, Ohio and Oregon
to Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas.
It was a triumph for bigotry based on the Bible. From conservative pulpits
around the country, pastors had implored their flocks to go to the polls
and vote against the "abomination" of homosexuality. They claimed that
preventing gays from getting married would shore up the institution among
heterosexuals though it is not clear how.
It was also a triumph for the Machiavellian madness of Karl Rove. He
understood only too well that many Americans were willing to ignore a
sputtering economy, a profoundly flawed war and soaring health care costs
for the opportunity to enforce discrimination against a despised minority.
Rove also knew that calling out the legions of ultraconservative
Christians who abhor equal rights for gays would ensure that President
Bush won not only the Electoral College but also the popular vote.
And they weren't just white voters. Homophobia oozes across lines of
color, linking black America with white in a common contempt masquerading
as morality. It is deeply disappointing to see black churchgoers
enthusiastically wield the Bible as a bludgeon against another group,
since Scripture was also used against us, as a justification for slavery,
in the 19th century.
"In Genesis . . . soon after the flood Ham's descendants were doomed by
the Almighty to a state of slavery . . . and . . . the descendants of Shem
and Japheth . . . were ordained to be theirmasters." "Slavery: Its Origin,
Nature and History," Rev. Thornton Stringfellow, 1861
Indeed, black Christians have become more hostile toward gays over the
last decade or so. While 65 percent of black Protestants believed that
gays should enjoy equal rights in 1996, that view was held by only 40
percent this year, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Forum on
Religion and Public Life. Among most other religious groups surveyed,
including white evangelical Protestants, support for gay rights increased
(if only marginally) over the same period.
Ultraconservative black Christians helped make the difference for
President Bush in the key state of Ohio. Bush nearly doubled his support
among black Ohioans, from 9 percent in 2000 to 16 percent on Tuesday,
according to senior analyst David Bositis of the Joint Center for
Political and Economic Studies, a Washington think tank specializing in
issues of interest to black Americans. That increase about 50,000 voters
came from black Christian conservatives, he added.
"It is vain to look to Christ or any of his Apostles to
justify[abolition]. On the contrary . . . they exhort 'all servants under
the yoke' to 'count their masters as worthy of all honor.' . . . St. Paul
actually apprehended a runaway slave and senthim to his master!" The
Pro-Slavery Argument, Hammond's Letters on Slavery, (Former S.C. Gov.)
J.H. Hammond, 1853
When American Baptists split over the bondage of black men and women in
the 1840s, the Southern brethren, who backed slavery, formed the Southern
Baptist Convention. Many of its members continued to resist equal rights
for black Americans through the 1960s.
At their Atlanta meeting in 1995 belatedly recognizing theerror of their
ways the messengers of the Southern Baptist Convention issued a broad
apology for the church's support of slavery. The founders of the Southern
Baptist Convention were "good, godly, Bible-believing persons, but they
were notinfallible," the Rev. Charles T. Carter said at the time.
Some 50 to 100 years from now, no doubt, some Christian churches will find
themselves apologizing for their contemptuous treatment of gays and
lesbians, many of whom are fellow Christians. For now, however, the
conservative Christian church black and white has forsaken two of Christ's
most profound injunctions : "Love thy neighbor as thyself" (Matthew,
22:39) and "Judge not, that ye be not judged" (Matthew, 7:1).
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Ninure Saunders aka Rainbow Christian
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| User: "Echo2Drs" |
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| Title: Re: (!) CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR ANTI-GAY VOTERS |
10 Nov 2004 11:44:31 AM |
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Subject: (!) CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR ANTI-GAY VOTERS
From: (Ninure Saunders)
Thank you for this post Rainbow Christian!
You are so right, and it is so sad!
I hear other's complaining about being discrimanated against! They are the very
ones that should know how it feels!
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| User: "Pastor Dave" |
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| Title: Re: (!) CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR ANTI-GAY VOTERS |
10 Nov 2004 07:33:48 PM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:25:06 GMT, while wondering if
all people love cupcakes,
RainbowChristiannohate@Rainbow-Christian.tk (Ninure
Saunders) yodeled:
pastors had implored their flocks to go to the polls
and vote against the "abomination" of homosexuality.
It is an abomination to pinheads like me. But you go ahead and fornicate
and claim that God likes that.
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Pastor Dave Raymond
"I have more understanding than all my teachers:
for thy testimonies are my meditation." - Psalm 119:99
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| User: "Echo2Drs" |
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| Title: Re: (!) CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR ANTI-GAY VOTERS |
11 Nov 2004 11:35:29 AM |
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It is an abomination to pinheads like me. But you go ahead and fornicate
and claim that God likes that.
It's no more sin than a man/woman relationship.
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| User: "Pastor Dave" |
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| Title: Re: (!) CHAPTER AND VERSE FOR ANTI-GAY VOTERS |
10 Nov 2004 03:30:09 PM |
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:25:06 GMT, while wondering if
all people love cupcakes,
RainbowChristiannohate@Rainbow-Christian.tk (Ninure
Saunders) yodeled:
pastors had implored their flocks to go to the polls
and vote against the "abomination" of homosexuality.
It is an abomination. But you go ahead and fornicate
and claim that God likes that.
--
Pastor Dave Raymond
"I have more understanding than all my teachers:
for thy testimonies are my meditation." - Psalm 119:99
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"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of
the Spirit, which is the word of God:" - Ephesians 6:17
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