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2008-12-08 Home Front: Culture Wars

Hollywood gays go limp on African-American churches

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Posted by tipper 2008-12-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 oh well hollywood has been shoving their politics down our throats for years it's about time someone shoved something back in theirs.

Posted by sinse 2008-12-08 08:31|| 2008-12-08 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Comparing the infringement on civil rights that gays are experiencing to that suffered by black Americans is to begin a game of âtop my oppressionâ that youâre not going to win.

Wait till the 'Black Church' finally wakes up to the Donks other client's [aka the Teachers Union] job on them on their children's children. Time to be pointing out not the hypocrisy of the Obamas sending their darlings to private school [or the Kennedys], but the realization that as parents, its their responsibility to make sure their children get a quality education vice the dumb downed indoctrination from the 'professionals' that own and operate the public system.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-12-08 08:53|| 2008-12-08 08:53|| Front Page Top

#3 "Apparently the religion espoused by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now the enemy, at least among the smart set..."

It's taken the NYT until nearly 2009 to figure this out?

The truth about the 2008 election is this: the one thing that is shared by white Obama voters, more than anything else, is contempt/condescension/bigotry towards all but the most emasculated and exsanguinated forms of Christianity. No other issue is as universally present among them, or likely to be in the near future.

The attitude towards even moderately devout Christians possessed by most white Obama voters is not a whole lot different than that of racist rednecks towards black folks. This is particularly true in those employed in the information/entertainment industry, and the education industry, but not limited to these.

If W had been an agnostic or atheist and done everything exactly as he had the last eight years, BDS would have been about half of what it was. Everything we saw in the area of BDS was written onto a palette of existing antipathy towards Christianity. A lot of these folks were just looking for any excuse to smash Christians and Christianity.

Obama's "faith", such as it is, is tolerated by white elitist anti-Christian bigots only because his church was one which espoused Black Liberation Theology. If Obama had gone to a conservative chuch instead of Rev. Wright's, he would not be president elect - it's that simple.

Posted by no mo uro 2008-12-08 08:53|| 2008-12-08 08:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Great comments.

No mo, you're exactly right. Just yesterday I heard a white Obama voter effortlessly express the proper sort of bemused derision for Christianity, in this case a very rich and tempting target - a neighborhood church-in-a-garage group (ewwwwww! in a nice neighborhood, too!)

The four pillars of "liberal" Democratic politics: anti-religious bigotry, class warfare/envy politics, race-hustling/race-baiting, and befuddled/dishonest pacifism.

Each of these pillars aren't present in the world-views of every lib Dem, of course, but one or more, in some form, are part of the outlook of the vast majority. Do the test yourself - apply this screen to lib Dems you know, or to MSM expressions of their views (i.e., most MSM emanations, whether labeled "news" or "analysis").

Posted by Verlaine 2008-12-08 12:27|| 2008-12-08 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 The other revelation in the Prop. 8 saga was that Hispanics were all for it as well. Catholics, you know. It's actually kinda changed my attitude toward immigration. This, of course, was a pretty hard core attitude until the numbers from the election came out. But now I'm afraid that liberalism as practiced by the white people in this state is a move toward self extinction. They do not reproduce, they despise traditional morality, they just don't seem to have any of the basic survival instincts that keep people and societies going. Enter the Hispanics with their old fashioned Catholicism, their strong family ties and solid work ethic. We're gonna be replaced by these people because we're just too decadent.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-12-08 13:14|| 2008-12-08 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 But now I'm afraid that liberalism as practiced by the white people in this state is a move toward self extinction.

All liberalism is a move toward self extinction. The only variable is father time.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-12-08 13:18|| 2008-12-08 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Basically, nobody from the pro-Prop * crowd is going to go to Watts, Compton, or South L.A. and protest. Much easier to play 'activist' with the Mormons or Catholics.

Posted by Pappy 2008-12-08 19:14|| 2008-12-08 19:14|| Front Page Top

#8 One might expect members of the Film Actors Guild to show a little stiffness.

Posted by SteveS 2008-12-08 22:12|| 2008-12-08 22:12|| Front Page Top

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