Obama’s Other Pastor
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Get a load of the pastor to whom Sen. Obama turned for guidance and support during those early days on the political trail…the Rev. James T. Meeks:
A spring 2007 newsletter from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) named Meeks one of the “10 leading black religious voices in the anti-gay movement”. The newsletter cites him as both “a key member of Chicago’s ‘Gatekeepers’ network, an interracial group of evangelical ministers who strive to erase the division between church and state” and “a stalwart anti-gay activist… [who]… has used his House of Hope mega-church to launch petition drives for the Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a major state-level ‘family values’ pressure group that lauded him last year for leading African Americans in ‘clearly understanding the threat of gay marriage.’”
How nice to know that homophobia remains as bipartisan as ever.
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Who says being a homophobe is bad? It is my view that the advent of the term homophobe was an attempt to paint those against homosexuality as suffering from a mental illness or something. Nothing like trying to turn the tables.
By the way, I am on the road right now and while on the road have trouble getting to WiFi hotspots. I am not attempting to fire and forget, but I do have trouble getting back.