*Pastor and cultural apologist Voddie Baucham challenged Christian broadcasters at their annual convention on Saturday to not buy into the “gay is the new black” propaganda, but instead to remain committed to defending biblical marriage on the airwaves.
Baucham, who preaches at Grace Family Baptist Church in Spring, Texas, knew that he would make a lot of people uncomfortable or squirm in their seats by raising the issue of homosexuality at the opening session of the 2011 National Religious Broadcasters.
“When it comes to Christian broadcasters, we are nervous, even afraid to deal with this subject matter,” he told NRB attendees at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center.
The African-American minister pointed out that Christian broadcasters feel the need to apologize several times to the public before speaking about homosexuality on their shows. They will try to prove they don’t hate gay people by saying they have many gay friends or gay family members, he said.
“The reason is the homosexuals have effectively co-opted blackness…to where now, we actually believe gay is the new black and we actually believe homosexual marriage is a civil rights issue,” he explained.
He stressed, however, that being gay is not the same as being black.
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i agree with him about gay people comparing that to being black, it’s not the same thing & i hate when the comparison is made. no one has to know you’re gay but i can’t hide being black nor would i want to.
To Snicker: The choice vs. non-choice, or whether or not something can be HIDDEN, is IRREVELANT. This insinuation that IF homosexuality is a choice (LIKE RELIGION) or can be hidden then that somehow justifies bigotry, hate, and discrimination is appalling, AND it shows the HYPOCRISY of the individuals opposing Equal Rights (including Gay Marriage), when they don’t DENY Equal Rights to religious people or to HETEROSEXUALS, who may CHOOSE and DO NOT HIDE their religion or sexual partner. People have a right to choose their own religion, what they want to eat for dinner, etc. and should not have to hide that religion or food, etc. And Yes, Straight AND Gay CONSENTING adults should have a right to choose who they are going to have sex with and who they want to MARRY, and shouldn’t have to hide who they want to marry. You don’t have to agree with gay marriage, but Guess what, they may not agree with your choice for a partner in marriage. Many people do not care whether or not YOU think it is normal or moral, or a sin. If you are not gay, then don’t marry a gay person, and REALIZE that two gay people getting married has NO IMPACT on your marriage. The POINT AND ISSUE here is EQUAL RIGHTS. If straight people can marry the consenting adult of their choice, then gay people should also have that right, PERIOD. Also, please NOTE, MANY people consider Divorce, Bigotry, Sex without marriage, Working on Sunday, etc. to be immoral and a SINFUL, and people engaging in these activities are NOT being denied Equal Rights, so people should FOCUS on getting THEMSELVES straight (as in, for example, rejecting bigotry), INSTEAD of focusing on denying equal rights to people because they are not straight (as in sexual orientation).
Also, the DEGREE of discrimination and inequality may or may not be different in groups (i..e. race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disabled, etc.), but that STILL DOES NOT erase the fact that ALL GROUPS should be entitled to Equal Rights. For example, Religious people may not have been discriminated against AS MUCH as Blacks, Women may not have discriminated against AS MUCH as Religious people, Gays may not have been discriminated against AS MUCH as Disabled people, etc. , but ALL of these groups (Blacks, Religious, Women, Gays, Disabled, etc.) should have Equal Rights. Equal Rights are not determined on a SPECIFIC DEGREE to which a group has or has not been discriminated? Listed below are some of the atrocities that have occurred against the above groups, and I would hope that people in general, ESPECIALLY those in these groups would NOT want to perpetuate the same type of injustice (for example, being denied equal rights) against others that have been perpetrated against them.
Blacks – Slavery, beaten, killed, unjustly sent to prisons, no equal rights.
Gays – Beaten, killed, raped, unjustly sent to mental institutions (lobotomized, etc.), no equal rights.
Women – Beaten, killed, raped, abused, no equal rights.
Religious People – Beaten, killed, persecuted, no equal rights.
Disabled People – Beaten, abused, unjustly sent to mental institutions (lobotomized, etc.), no equal rights.
One COMMON denominator in the above groups is that they have ALL at one point regardless of the DEGREE (or extent), have been terrorized, discriminated against, and denied Equal Rights. Everyone has a right to their opinion/beliefs, but their opinion/beliefs should NOT DENY others Equal Rights, and the SAME respect that you would expect from others.
The church always chooses what sins to judge others. How about stop polluting the Sunday Sabbath. * Exodus 31:13-17. They want entertainment folks.
Oh the hypocrisy of it all. The church sucks!