Comments on: Pastor Supports Warren Protests http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/09/7915 News, analysis and fact-checking of anti-gay rhetoric Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:03:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Jonathan Justice http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/09/7915/comment-page-1#comment-30306 Jonathan Justice Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:43:42 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=7915#comment-30306 While all of us are saying our various versions of " Thank you Jesus for having such awesome friends!", let's notice that a very large chunk of the religious right sees this stuff as their worst nightmare coming true. A lot of the money and political energy that pushed quietist fundamentalists and evangelicals into militant Republican activism was afraid of exactly this: That someday too soon (any decade of the last 12 or the next 5), religious liberals would no longer be restrained by the "concerns" of their more rightist brethern, and go ahead to do what they had been talking about. Thanks in no small part to the supposed success of the religious right over the last three decades, we have elected to the Presidency a man who is both a member of the United Church of Christ and black by the all too well understood "can he pass for white" standard that applied in most of this country till last summer. That he, and the rest of us, would then be called to the task of equality for LGBT people by the black preacher of one of the largest congregations of that denomination, leaves them spinning out of the loop, in danger of an even more serious fall occasioned by developing shortages of the money that made it all possible. The part about the preacher's church being at Stone Mountain, the site of the unfinished Mt. Rushmore style monument to the Confederate dead, is just icing on the wedding cake. While all of us are saying our various versions of ” Thank you Jesus for having such awesome friends!”, let’s notice that a very large chunk of the religious right sees this stuff as their worst nightmare coming true. A lot of the money and political energy that pushed quietist fundamentalists and evangelicals into militant Republican activism was afraid of exactly this: That someday too soon (any decade of the last 12 or the next 5), religious liberals would no longer be restrained by the “concerns” of their more rightist brethern, and go ahead to do what they had been talking about. Thanks in no small part to the supposed success of the religious right over the last three decades, we have elected to the Presidency a man who is both a member of the United Church of Christ and black by the all too well understood “can he pass for white” standard that applied in most of this country till last summer. That he, and the rest of us, would then be called to the task of equality for LGBT people by the black preacher of one of the largest congregations of that denomination, leaves them spinning out of the loop, in danger of an even more serious fall occasioned by developing shortages of the money that made it all possible.

The part about the preacher’s church being at Stone Mountain, the site of the unfinished Mt. Rushmore style monument to the Confederate dead, is just icing on the wedding cake.

]]> By: Ephilei http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2009/01/09/7915/comment-page-1#comment-30303 Ephilei Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:17:52 +0000 http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/?p=7915#comment-30303 Hey, I thought all black people hate gays? Hey, I thought all black people hate gays?

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