Sorry, but anyone telling you that America’s largely White/Southern Evangelical #prolife movement had nothing to do with racism — is lying to you.
It started as an anti-black movement.
#TrayvonMartin
Pastors, Not Politicians, Turned Dixie Republican forbes.com/sites/chrislad…
“No one needs to say “N..r, n..r” anymore. With help from evangelical pastors, this new generation of politicians has found a new political party and a fresh language with which to stir old grievances and feed their power. “ — Chris Ladd
“By merely refining their rhetoric and activating evangelical congregations, a new generation of Southern conservatives grow ever closer to winning a fight their forebears once thought was lost.”
— Chris Ladd
Public perception that a “Southern strategy” conceived and initiated by clever Republicans turned the South red is worse than false.
By deflecting responsibility onto some shadowy “other” it blocks us from reckoning with the past or changing our future.
“History is a powerful tide, especially when it runs unseen and concealed. A refusal to honestly confront our past leaves us to repeat our mistakes over and over again.“ — Chris Ladd
“The cross and the Confederate flag cannot co-exist without one setting the other on fire.”
— Russell Moore, the President of the Southern Baptist Convention
Russell Moore became the President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s social outreach arm in 2013. In that capacity, he began to challenge many of the darker elements of the church’s history.
Moore criticized those who stirred up hatred against refugees and ignored matters of racial justice. He drew sharp criticism when he denounced the Confederate Flag, explaining, “The cross and the Confederate flag cannot co-exist without one setting the other on fire.”
The real fury came when Moore applied to Donald Trump the same standard of conduct Baptists had demanded of Bill Clinton.
Southern Baptist leaders in the 90’s savaged President Clinton as the details of the Lewinski Affair began to surface.
Moore drew the obvious comparison last year between Trump and Bill Clinton, urging voters to reject the 2016 Republican nominee.
As religious leaders lined up solidly behind Trump last fall, Moore commented, “The religious right turns out to be the people the religious right warned us about.”
In the end, evangelical voters backed Donald Trump by a steeper margin than their support for Romney in ‘12.
Today, W.A. Criswell’s Dallas megachurch is pastored by Robert Jeffress, who has remained faithful to the most bigoted strains of the olde tyme religion.
He has led an effort to withdraw funding for Russell Moore’s organization. Jeffress has called the Catholic Church “a Babylonian mystery religion.” He explained that Obama was sent to pave the way for the Antichrist. He has demogogued relentlessly on gay marriage.
And naturally, he endorsed Donald Trump.
The Black Church” and authentic Black conservatives have observed Lily-White Evangelism for over a century ....
WE HAVE WATCHED FROM THE MOUNTAINS, WE HAVE WATCHED THEM IN DISGUST and
We Will NOT Have It O!
Our heartbreak and betrayal has turned into righteous RAGE 🔥 ...
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