Rev. Jeremiah Wright Gets LGBT Support

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=17869
03/25/2008

"Media frenzy and a flood of criticism over past comments made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who recently retired from leading Chicago's 8,000-member Trinity United Church of Christ ( UCC ) , have caused some unease among Americans, including members of the LGBT community."

You have to listen to the man in context.  You need to really listen to what he says. "We", as a nation, have killed tens of thousands of people in our illegal conflict.  Yes, we should be held accountable.  All we see on the tele is him saying "God damn America".

I don't believe that God will damn America.  He doesn't have to.  "We" are doing a good job on that score without him.

Cindi

Bringing facts to a campaign involving the Clintons is like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

Bringing facts to any campaign seems like an exercise in futility.  I thought we might see something different this year.  It started out sort of civilized. 

Cindi

That's only because it stated out so damn early.  Now is the normal season, and we're getting the normal personal attacks, and the complete absence of any real discussion of real problems.   As per normal.  Sad to say.

" ... They picked five minutes and 15 seconds of a sound bite, without politically and spiritually addressing what the whole sermon was all about and what was he really saying," Jackson added. "Instead, he looks like a madman."

With all due respect, five minutes is hardly a sound bite.  Most ministers are held to much higher standards than this.  I, for one, refuse to support someone just because they are friendly to the LGBT agenda.  If his 8,000 followers like the hate and blame, race card game, fine.  I happen to believe that America can do better than this. 

Kristi

Any black person in America can play the race card, as it is, they are dealt nothing but cards from the black suites.  Its not a matter of how much you feel you might have risen above it, but how much this nation has got beyond it.  Given current events, not too far.  What the Rev. said, in context is true.  At least compared to what Pat Buchanan and the rest of the mighty white crowd's reaction has been.

Reflecting on my personal experience, it is not an easy thing to just go to another church.  It can tear you to pieces if you are a believer. It nearly killed me to leave mine. It took me years to come to terms with it. I talk with my mother about her belief in the Mormon faith.  She knows what they did to me. She was part of it.  She regrets it deeply.  She knows it was flatly wrong. And still she clings to her church like a baby to her mothers tit.  She would never consider attending a different church. And... she's not a zealot.  Many people are this very same way. They can see the wrong that is done by the failures of their churches, yet they continue to support them.  I hope that we can break this trend in coming years, but for now, that's what we have to deal with.

I honestly and truly believe that this is a non issue as we face so many other more important problems..... like requiring someone to be a faithful Christian in the first place to run for office.  Okay, even that falls pretty low on the list.

Cindi

How about we elect someone with real qualifications, who might have some real ideas about how to solve real problems?

I didn't have any problem with what that Wright guy said.   

A black man raises his voice and old whitey starts a-quiverin'.  Well, boo Hoo.  Try listening to the words and feel the tone.


     If I ran a TV station, it would be to make enough money to pay the employees and cover the costs.  I would only broadcast actual news and not innuendo.  I wouldn't play video over and over while having idiots give their worthless and biased and elitist opinions.
     I would have my people work on a story for real behind the scenes and then broadcast it when it's ready and fact checked.  I wouldn't consider opinions to be stories. I would interview people who are involved in the story for 30 to 60 minutes instead of 3 minutes.
     Anyone who speculates, "so and so is going to have to..." would have their teeth knocked out on camera.  I guess that's what would give me my ratings.  Heh heh   >
     
     Real life: it's about the quality and NOT the money.     


   oh yeah, i almost forgot I agree with Tekla's qualifications statement.  In fact, all candidates should take an SAT, a personality test, and a serious psych test with all results shown to the public.
   

serious psych test with all results shown to the public.

The old joke (thought its too true to be funny) is that if your willing to go through what is needed to get the job in the first place, your pretty much too crazy to have it.