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By: Victor Trammell
Due to President Barack Obama’s pro-gay marriage stance, black clergy members across the country are not willing to urge black voters to participate in the upcoming election.
This could adversely affect Obama because black Christian communities across the country turned out to vote in record numbers to help him get elected in 2008.
Black pastors all over America have expressed disappointment in the president for anouncing this past May that he backed same-s*x marriage. African-Americans are more conservative when it comes to issues of religion, crime, and education.
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David W. Johnson Jr.
September 21, 2012 at 2:57 pm
You Fake Pieces Of Trash Want To Stop President Obama From Getting Re-Elected But You Also Want To Rape And Molest Children In Your Churches. Like I Keep Saying, I Wish God Would Get Rid Of All You Sorry “n****r” Pieces Of Trash And Save Our REAL AFRICAN AMERICAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS Like President Obama And Michelle Obama.
Larry
September 20, 2012 at 5:31 pm
Michael Baisden’s Commentary To Non-Voters: History is repeating itself as the strong minded fight for the rights of the lazy citizens who only want to reap the benefits of those who stand up and speak out! When you say you won’t vote, you are not only disgracing those who fought and died for your right but you’re also allowing the enemy to laugh in our faces as they walk into the White House, knowing they cheated their way to victory. So be it…step aside, lay down, get out of the way and allow the REAL men and women to lead! It’s 2012, why should anyone, especially a person of color, have to be persuaded to vote? You have truly been suckered, played, bamboozled, hoodwinked, and led astray! ~ Michael Baisden
Larry
September 20, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Every non vote is a vote for Romney and proof that these people belong in his 47 percent! They are Romney’s boys! The ones he says can be his servants when they get to heaven! Yowza boss, ib not gon vote for no Bama! Yowza boss! ib gon be a good boy!
edwa
September 20, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Too many people have lost their lives defending their right to vote in this country for any person particularly those of color not to vote. Any pastor who is encouraging his or her congregation not to vote is simply an Uncle Tom being manipulated by folks seeking to halt the black vote in this November’s Presidential election. Wake up people!!
Untitled
September 20, 2012 at 12:53 pm
I agree with the prior comments and will add that if this is the stance some Black clergy is willing to take in such a high stakes situation as this upcoming election I recommend Black folks vacate the churches as fast as possible because so called leaders as these are not worth your time to listen to or follow. Wake up everybody!!! Every vote counts but not every bit of rhetoric no matter from whom it comes.
Deborah
September 20, 2012 at 10:40 am
This is just another shameful display of intolerance from a community that has suffered the same kind of action for decades and decades. Let us hope that those with a mind of their own in the African American community will ignore this so called advice and vote for Obama.
What do these pastors think that they are playing at? They want to criminalise Obama’s stance on gay marriage, and yet I have been regularly reading in this website about the preying of pastors on females in their church! Hypocrisy, if ever there was! Why don’t they look at THEMSELVES! Look at their own hoods, and the total mess that they are in! What business is it of theirs that people who love each other want to marry? What have they done to rectify their own problems? Very little!
And yet, when it comes to promoting rights for all Americans, they suddenly become concerned. This is pathetic, aand I hope that ultimately, this intolerance will not prevail over common sense, and decency and equality.
They want to deny Obama the vote over gay marriage, instead of over the economy, and jobs and foreign policy. Yes, that is how ignorant and narrow minded the so called religous leaders of the black community have become, or may have always been.
Pathetic.
Edward Smikle
September 20, 2012 at 8:39 am
What does love and marriage have to do with religion?.The reason why there is so much HIV/AIDS, in the black community is because they are such hypocreticx. They are sleeping with other man, while denying them the right to marry, or love each other.
Sometime when we look at how hateful we are as a race of people, one can understand why we are so devided. Ignorance and stupedity is the most destructive method in the black communities all over the world.Sometime when I listen to black people I come to the conclusion that we are where we are because we are too f*@*ing ignorant and hateful.
Rosalyn
September 19, 2012 at 5:33 pm
This is one of the most ignorant things I have ever heard; don’t vote. You may not agree with all of the presidents actions since he has been office, that’s natural because you can’t please everyone. You need to think about the whole picture, even though you may not agree with the issue of same s*x marriage, think about the other issues that are being presented and think about how worse you will be if you don’t vote. You may not like this issue but sometimes you have to take something you don’t want in order to get some of the things that are good for you. It’s one of those cases where you take the lesser of two evils; if you think he is a bad president because of this issue think of what you will get if the other guy wins. MAKE UP YOUR OWN MINDS, DON’T LET YOUR PASTOR MAKE UP YOUR MIND FOR YOU. I go to church and I listen closely to what is said but I don’t let him make my decisions for me.