Posts Tagged As: Alliance of Affirming Faith-Based Organizations

Al Sharpton: “We Know You’re Not Preaching The Bible”

Jim Burroway

January 16th, 2009

Rev. Al Sharpton spoke last Sunday at the launch of the Alliance of Affirming Faith-Based Organizations in Atlanta. During his talk he called out the churches who seemed to be concerned only about one issue:

“It amazes me when I looked at California and saw churches that had nothing to say about police brutality, nothing to say when a young black boy was shot while he was wearing police handcuffs, nothing to say when the they overturned affirmative action, nothing to say when people were being delegated into poverty, yet they were organizing and mobilizing to stop consenting adults from choosing their life partners,” Sharpton told a packed audience on Jan. 11.

“There is something immoral and sick about using all of that power to not end brutality and poverty, but to break into people’s bedrooms and claim that God sent you,” Sharpton added.

… We know you’re not preaching the Bible, because if you were preaching the Bible we would have heard from you,” Sharpton said. “We would have heard from you when people were starving in California, when they deregulated the economy and crashed Wall Street you had nothing to say. When [alleged Ponzi schemer Bernie] Madoff made off with the money, you had nothing to say. When Bush took us to war chasing weapons of mass destruction that weren’t there you had nothing to say. … But all of a sudden when Proposition 8 came out you had so much to say, but since you stepped in the rain, we gonna step in the rain with you.”

Amen to that.

The Alliance was begun by Rev. Dennis Meredith, who recently came out as bisexual. The Alliance also includes Dr. Kenneth Samuel, pastor of Victory for the World Church; Rev. Paul Graetz of First Metropolitan Community Church; Rev. Geoffrey Hoare of All Saints Episcopal Church; and Rabbi Joshua Lesser of Congregation Bet Haverim.

Al Sharpton Supports Atlanta Pro-Gay Interfaith Alliance

Timothy Kincaid

January 11th, 2009

The Southern Voice is reporting:

Rev. Al Sharpton is coming to Atlanta to bless the start of a new religious organization that aims to unite gay-friendly churches. Sharpton is the keynote speaker at the Human Rights Ecunemical Service today at 5 p.m. at Tabernacle Baptist Church.

The Alliance of Affirming Faith Based Organizations is the effort of a number of Atlanta ministers, including Pastor Dennis Meredith of Tabernacle Baptist Church and Rev. Dr. Kenneth Samuel of Victory Church in Stone Mountain.

    

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