In advance of the mid-term elections, African-American churches are organizing to turn out the African-American vote for Democrats.
Prominent black denominations and faith leaders like Rev. Cynthia Hale, Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner and others are calling the final two Sundays before the election “Freedom Sunday” and “Turnout Sunday” and asking congregants to go to the polls, often with a Ferguson-motivated appeal.
Curiously, the “Separation of Church and State” activist crowd has no objection to this.
I wonder if any Democrat mayors will be demanding their sermons.
Of course if the Democrats and the Lefties are doing it, it can’t be illegal.
We can do anything we desire, but the Republicans should follow the rules.
They say tax the churches…I wonder if these churches count too…I guess not…
The numbers of these people roughly coincides with the far right racist fringe. Each want a race war. Each are basically insignificant, numbers-wise.
This is a very good example of why religion & state do not mix, in this country. A reason why we have a constitution that forbids state promotion of religion (separation of church & state is just a general term in the US, unrelated to similar terms around the planet & in some literature). It’s also a reason why we have laws about political promotion & non-profit status.
The question I have is, will the Feds monitor whether political promotion is being directed from these pulpits. The Feds have targeted other churches previously, especially in SoCalif.
An observation I have is, until blacks get over themselves & join the mainstream (yes, it’s white & yes they are in a minority); they will continue to sideline themselves, in uneducated ignorance. I won’t join the club that goes on about the differences between the races. That’s a never ending pit that offends.
Re. #4
At one time everyone in my employ was black (I’m white). Not a conscious thing; but everyone who applied for a job was black. You take what the market offers. One guy is comfortable in his skin, works hard, and generally has a positive outlook on life. Another guy works hard, but sees racism around every corner. Guess which guy still works for me.
The Constitution forbids Federal (Union) promotion of religion. The authors of the First Amendment went right back to their states to write their state constitutions and many included oaths to Jesus/Christianity in order to serve in state government.
Granted, many may be against this practice… but the a u t h o r s of the “separation” clause had a wildly different view (nay, a Constitutional view) of the matter than today’s body-politic.
(Separation of Church and State)
And no… the “liberation theology” aspect of the church is much larger than the racist right wing in a few ways: it’s numbers, and the acceptance by society/media. A rap star can go to an NBA game wearing a racist emblem that promotes Jews and Whites as devils… created on the Island of Cyprus 6,600 years ago, and barely a murmur is mentioned about it. I cannot analogize an equal pop-culture icon donning a Swastika and barely getting an “B-13” page blurb.
▼ Jay-Z Sports a Racist Emblem from the CULT, “The Five Percenters”
See also my post on pointing out to an old cantankerous Democrat that the President of our nation is/was intimately involved in similar views — for 20-years:
▼ Hot-Tub Conversations ~ Discussing Politics on Vacation
#4- You sound like the crybabies in San Fran when the San Fran Gate published that blacks commit the majority of bashings. There is already a race war look up “White Girl Bleed A lot” and “knockout king”. The white casualties will be those that think blacks are equal like Reginald Denny did.
If the food stamp card goes down for 2+days there wont be any white people that believe in equality left in any city with significant blacks. I will be up on the rooftops with the armed Asian shopkeepers, look for the guy with the rainbow feather boa and big scope.
@ Steve, I fail to see how my general statement sounds anything like a “cry baby in San Francisco”. Rioting blacks love to stir up & destroy their neighborhoods thinking their little universe represents a microcosm & the far right fringe of Clive Bundy-esque oafs believe they also represent something substantial. If you don’t understand someone’s comment; ask.
@ P Giorgio, the framers returning to their states to compose constitutions containing form & prose with some Christian wording of the day doesn’t constitute promotion of religion; so no, there wasn’t an implied double standard as if their actions disprove anything I said. Also, I’ve been high & low, far & wide in our country & No; your liberation theology, black church members don’t constitute any larger numbers than the far right (as I said).
There really wasn’t anything controversial in my initial comment. If someone doesn’t like reality, that’s still not negotiable. I posed a question & a statement at the end, neither of which were taken up. In the end, babbling clerics in their pulpits complaining about being hounded by mayors to “report” to the municipal authorities & equally idiotic preachers thinking they can make a difference in some sort of perceived & fictional “Let’s all vote & rise up to get rid of whites, because we are black & that means we are innocent”; doesn’t matter. Minorities are what they are.
@Marc
“Every person, who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust… shall… make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: ‘I do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed forever more, and I acknowledge the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.’” ~ Delaware
“And each member [of the legislature], before he takes his seat, shall make and subscribe the following declaration, viz: ‘I do believe in one God, the Creator and Governor of the Universe, the rewarded of the good and the punisher of the wicked, and I do acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration.’” ~ Pennsylvania
“All persons elected must make and subscribe the following declaration, viz. ‘I do declare that I believe the Christian religion and have firm persuasions of its truth.’” ~ Massachusetts
“No person, who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the [Christian] religion, or the Divine authority either of the Old or New Testaments, or who shall hold religious principles incompatible with the freedom and safety of the State, shall be capable of holding any office, or place of trust or profit in the civil department, within this State.” ~ North Carolina
Just a few examples from my linked paper a few posts up.
@ P Giorgio, I won’t be following your link & you know full well that anything written in, dictated by or implied therein by a state government is subordinate at the Federal level. Nice Christian words & “requirements” of the day, in form & prose as was common because it was a nation of Christians with traditional salutations, prayers & inscriptions; do not constitute promotion of religion as previously adjudicated by SCOTUS.
Our founders were hardly fanatics, on any account relating to religion, but were gentlemen that used the proprieties of the day.
I’m sure you’ll eventually understand, after you’re finished making a mountain out of a mole hill. Thanks.
I get your point, you’re not getting mine.
Papa Giorgio has confused the wrod relgion in the First Amendment. As used in Bill religion does not mean religion in the generic sense but to mean denomination(e.g. Presbyterian). Yet the First Amendment supports the generic definition but stating nor “prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” There is no wall of separation in our Constitution. There was in the constitution of the defunct Soviet Union, Article 51. The fact that Thomas Jefferson used the phrase in his letter to the Danbury Baptists, does not imply that it was the intention of the Founding Fathers. The Bill of Rights was passed in 1791, T.J’s letter was in 1802, eleven years later. The communist ACLU and its marxist founder have cooped the phrase and uses it to stifle the voice Christianity., with the help of radical leftists judges. If the liberal preachers in black liberation churches can’t be stifled, then conservative clergy should be able to stimulate their congregants to go to the polls and vote.