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Clergy Says Same-Sex Marriage Isn’t About Civil Rights
4:58 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism| Controversia| GLBT| Politics| Religion| race| society · 1 Comment
19 May 2009
…apparently because being gay “is a choice”:
“We know what we have gone through as an ethnic group. We feel the terminology, the definition itself, has really been hijacked,” he said. “Unfortunately, it’s just another ploy to garner more support from people who may not understand what the civil rights struggle was all about.”Bishop Michael A. Badger, pastor of Bethesda World Harvest International Church on Main Street, said that he doesn’t doubt there is discrimination against gay people but that it is hardly on the order of what African-Americans have encountered and still face.
“As an African-American, I don’t have a choice in the color of my skin. I have a choice in whether I’m abstinent or not,” Badger said. “I don’t think you can compare the two.”
Actually he said because “abstinence” is “a choice”. Well, that makes even less sense.
Just because the two issues aren’t exactly the same doesn’t mean they aren’t both about civil rights. And sorry, I think we can draw more parallels between the civil rights movement and the fight for gay rights than with the fight against gay marriage. To quote journalist Earl Ofari Hutchison: “Homophobia and racism are frequently two sides of the same coin.”
Let’s be honest. I’d rather get schooled on said parallels and what the civil rights movement was about by Coretta Scott King than from this guy.
Oh, and for those of you who wonder why this issue is even important, read this story from today’s NYT.
What do you think?
Via / Buffalo News
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Black church reaches out to Latinos
3:34 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Religion · Comments Off
20 Feb 2007
While some use divide and conquer tactics to create a rift between the Latino and African American communities in this country, one predominantly black church in Georgia is responding to a recent rise in the Latino population with arms wide open:
It’s an unusual scene for a predominantly African-American church, but the area’s Hispanic population has grown from just 1 percent in 2000, to nearly 9 percent today. And New Birth is acknowledging its new neighbors in a way most historically black churches haven’t.Long is trying to attract Latino members by hiring a Hispanic band, adding Spanish-language Sunday services, hiring a Hispanic pastor — even by learning Spanish.
“My message has been geared to challenging African-Americans, but I have to be culturally sensitive,” said Long, whose congregation draws more than 25,000 worshippers. “Now, I focus on using biblical principles that are relevant to everyone.”
What a refreshing idea in this age of “modern Christianity” which attempts to drive a wedge between the rich and the poor, the white and the black, the gay and the straight, etc. Many churches across the U.S., black or otherwise, could learn something from New Birth.
Via / Chron.com
Mexican church calls adultery “a sin and a crime”
12:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Religion| mexico · 2 Comments
6 Dec 2006
The Mexican Catholic church is criticizing the Northern state of Chihuahua’s decision to eliminate adultery from its list of punishable crimes in its “Reforma Penal“:
For Bishop Renato Ascencio León, this change “is yet another manifestation that we are straying off the path” and said that “the only thing that this will cause is, if authority does not intervene, that victims take justice into their own hands.”
Personally, I had no idea that adultery was a punishable crime in Mexico. And people will take justice into their own hands whether “authorities” do or not.
Chihuahua’s penal reform, introduced in November, added child pornography and sex tourism to its list of punishable crimes, but eliminated adultery. Sounds like a decent trade-off to me.
Chihuahua’s Attorney General states that adultery was eliminated because it’s “seldom reported” while the church calls it a “serious sin” that should be “punished by the laws of men”.
Via / El Plural
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