What’s Jeremiah Wright up to these days?
Where’s America’s favorite America-damning pastor? The Institute for Religion and Democracy keeps you up to date:
An abortion rights coalition comprised primarily of mainline Protestant denominations is hosting controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright at its upcoming National Black Religious Summit on Sexuality in Washington, D.C. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) will sponsor the event July 9-11, 2008 at the Howard University School of Divinity. The Institute on Religion & Democracy is urging RCRC and its member denominations to withdraw the invitation to Wright.
Wright has been denounced by his former parishioner, Senator Barak Obama, for his numerous incendiary comments, among them that the U.S. government was responsible for infecting African Americans with the virus that causes AIDS.
Washington-based RCRC defends unrestricted abortion rights in the name of its denominational members. The Washington-based United Methodist Board of Church and Society and the New York-based United Methodist Women’s Division both belong to RCRC, as do the Episcopal Church and Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
UM Action Executive Director Mark Tooley commented,
“That Mainline Protestant denominations continue to belong to a shameless abortion rights coalition is outrageous. That they would do so after the coalition invited Jeremiah Wright is nothing short of a scandal.
“RCRC is not a faith organization. It is a radical political lobby that advocates limitless abortion on demand. It is funded primarily by left-wing foundations, while appropriating the credibility of mainline churches for a religious veneer over its abortion rights extremism.
“It is bizarre that RCRC would invite Jeremiah Wright after he had ignited so much controversy. But in some ways it is fitting that a group as extreme as RCRC would choose an equally extreme spokesman.
“Hosting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom even Senator Obama has denounced, further showcases how radical RCRC is. If RCRC will not withdraw the invitation, hopefully there will be further motivation for RCRC’s member denominations to withdraw from RCRC.”
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So this is what religion is like when you get all of the God, right and wrong, and morality stuff out of the way. Interesting.
Sounds like they’re planning the next Holocaust.
Agreed. How does a church reconcile abortion with Biblical teachings? The sad fact is that these “churches” will answer for their choices. Meanwhile – babies are still being slaughtered.
Reverend Wright and all the pro abortion supporters on this site (and also those who are indifferent) have something in common.
How nice.
This “rev” is no more a man of God than my neighbors cat.
Yep.
Really – what’s the point to going to church if all it is is a rehash of the DNC’s talking points? A faith that tells you everything is a-okay, you can do what you want and not worry, all truths are relevant, etc.? You’d be better off at brunch and it’d be far more honest to put a picture of yourself on the altar and worship it rather than a wishy-washy, moral-free, great big hermaphrodite in the sky (for those churches offended by the thought of God being male).
We’re always told that it’s wrong to say one religion is better than another, to believe your faith is the true faith (and provide reasons for saying so), but I don’t know how any one could look at this cabal of churches that supports the slaughter of innocent children and claim it’s just as good as a conservative church that respects, cherishes, and protects the dignity of life.
It’s probably just cheaper to hide behind the tax-free facade of a church whilst lobbying.
These
peopleanimals are sick.Wright has been denounced by his former parishioner AND PROTEGE OF TWENTY YEARS, Senator Barak Obama,
We feeeex for joo!
Different subject, How do you suppose the Rev. Wright would explain the stark
contrast with the way that Iowans are
responding to the flooding in that state when compared to the aftermath of
Katrina, no shootings, no rapes, no
looting, no murders? Right-brain vs.
left brain…?
Inviting Rev “I Hate the USA” Wright is crossing the line, but killing babies is okay?
Perhaps the libs are rethinking the whole church and state thing.
Careful there. Piss off the cat lobby and they barf in your shoe.
Guess they didn’t get to the part where it says Thou shall not murder?
You CANNOT be for abortion and be a Christian. I don’t care what anyone says. You cannot promote, support or participate in the murder of unborn children and be a Christian. People may still call themselves Christian but they are just fooling themselves.
…. holding up a sign that says:
“Will use the Lord’s name in vain to curse the United States of America for
foodattention.“ ?I wouldn’t be surprised at all if liberal administration found a way to work the Constitution to create state-approved (read: liberal and politically correct) churches and punish those who didn’t toe the line.
Everyone knows that only applies to criminals on death row. Unborn children are burdens, “unwanted”, “lumps of tissue” that aren’t really human anyway. And if they *are* human – no matter. They’re inconvenient to someone’s lifestyle (not to mention a blight on the fragile planet) and it’s the woman’s “choice”…
/sarcasm
GOD DAMN the RCRC ! !
How much is the paycheck?Who is the revs booking agent now?Here’s betting it tracks back to BHO’s people.
Anyone who would follow such a numbskull are easy prey for cults. Which makes it even more scary that a presidential candidate would have had this guy as a “spiritual advisor”. Sick.
And it cracks me up when newspapers now claim that obama denounced this guy without also saying he at first backed him up when he damned America..and then it took him long enough and much public pressure I’m sure from his followers to issue a denouncement which to me, was just TOO convenient. If one has to be convinced for that long to do the right thing, they aren’t ready for ANY type of leadership, let alone the most important office in the Free World.
englishqueen01 Re: “I wouldn’t be surprised at all…”
Yup, that is exactly where I was going… they have learned from the Soviets demise. You can’t deny the people their faith… but just maaaybe you can regulate it. We should all be very afraid.
“It is bizarre that RCRC would invite Jeremiah Wright after he had ignited so much controversy. ”
Yes, I find organizations who do this are looking for attention. Look at the NAACP giving michael vick an award right after the whole dog fighting and rape sticking dogs came out inthe public that he plead guilty to? Weren’t there other blacks they could have awarded that had their hands clean from this type of evil stuff? My answer is yes, apparently the NAACP’s answer was no. Sick.
Yep.
I belong to a UCC church. Donations are down in my church and several other local UCC churches, despite living in a rather affluent area. The Material the UCC sends out is, to me, not about religion, but how they try to twist religion to fit their personal political views.
Abortion? Rev. Wright to speak? What’s next, unregulated euthanasia? That is some collection of “Christians”. They should all be ashamed of themselves.
Topic of discussion: “Why do they keep setting up abortion clinics in black neighborhoods?”
Greenfaire, I think you’ve hit on an interesting point. It amazes me that religious folks like the Rev Wright and the Faux Catholics think abortion is fine. Which always amazes me-what about thou shalt not kill? Bur for the record, I think death row imates should be put out to pasture with a Sheriff Joe type and never be able to see their families again either but I digress. I was discussing this the other day with my neighbor who was lamenting that very same thing, having driven her grandson to Howard and passing 4 different death factories. She’s sickened that her Alma Mater will be visited by this fiend (her words) and wonders how they can continue to call themselves a “divinity school”. I have to agree though, I really wonder how these people can call themselves religious and be pro-death.
Can someone please explain to me how the great minds on the Supreme Court can give constitutional rights to self-avowed Islamic killers who were not born in the US, and at the same time say innocent, almost-born children in this country have no constitutional rights?
Hey SCOTUS, how about giving the right of habeas corpus to unborn children who have been given a death sentence without any hearing? Wouldn’t that make sense?
This whole thing used to be debated at great length on the old Coulter board. You could argue until your fingers went numb, and you still couldn’t convince any of those liberals that it was inconsistent to be totally in favor of abortion, including partial birth abortion, and adamantly opposed to capital punishment.
My wife and I are sitting here dumbfounded that these so called main stream Protestant churches are OK with murdering the unborn. Then again from our observations since we found out about this radical brand of theology we can’t consider the “Black Libertarian Marxist Churches of What’s Happening Now” to be part of any mainstream religion we could ever follow.
englishqueen01 (posting #15) said:
A liberal administration and court would merely ignore the words of the Constitution and claim something else takes precedence if it suits them. Just as gun laws only fetter the law-abiding, the Constitution only limits those who believe what it says.
So it was an even match: your fingers against their brains.
I miss Rev. Wright. I hope he returns in Sept to sink the Messiah for good. Hey, at Wright is being his real self. Obama is the phony Chicago politician.
And everyone that thinks Obama is not a re-tread socialist from the 60’s, is just plain stupid. Everyone of his ideas are old, proven failures.
If you mean that I have more brains in my fingers than they have in their heads, I agree.
The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) and the rest of them will answer for these millions of murders. Why do the Heathen Rage? They rage because they are Heathen. But there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
According to the mainline churches, the Decalogue has become the Ten Suggestions.
So that’s where Obama got
the idea that he wouldn’t want his girls
“punished with a baby”
Whatever you see the Reverend Wright doing,
whatever you hear him saying
is a window into the souls of Barack Obama and Michelle “Aunt Esther” Obama.
Terry_Jim, exactly right.
The Obamas are on the same mind set as their affiliations and I think we can all recite those affilations by heart.
These buildings are not churches and these “Reverends” are not Reverends.
I will never forget how Obama had no problem with baby killings outside the womb and even made a horrendous statement, like what is the difference?
Of course he and those that think like that are not Christians.
How people can still fall for his and his wife’s lines and so called “family values” is amazing.
I see more and more “moneylenders” are “defiling” more and more “temples”. The churches are, once again, becoming the political pawns of the politicians. It’s easier to gain power and prestige by becoming a “pastor” than to run for office. Separation of church and state depends now, on what state and what pc church. It seems a lot of “Houses of God” are dropping that, to just become “churches”.
Yep. Your fingers, their brains: Numb & Number.
amen brother!
The liberal churches will tell you that nowhere in the Bible is abortion mentioned. While that is most likely true, consider this: God told his people child sacrifice was an abomination. You see in the OT where certain Hebrew kings and other people “allowed their children to pass through the fire.” That means they allowed their children to be sacrificed to false pagan gods.
If abortion isnt child sacrifice, what is it? A child’s life is sacrificed because two adults could not control their urges, and now this child is “inconvenient.” The socialist democrats worship at the alter of child sacrifice. When a socialist democrat invokes his “god”, i wonder – is he/she talking about Baal or Molec, both of whom required child sacrifice.
The fact of the matter is this country is going to be judged for its constitutional “right” to allow our children to pass through the fire.