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Obama’s first casualty: The Gay Community?

The Washington Times printed an exclusive article today that writes of Obama delaying the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.  According to the article, Obama will not move for months and perhaps not until 2010 before asking Congress to end the ban on open homosexuality.

Reading the responses to the article someone commented how the Gay community is Obama’s first casualty – his first broken promise perhaps?  This was one of his promises to the Gay community as outlined on his transition website for “change” where it says of the repeal under his section labeled “civil rights agenda” and support for the LGBT community”:

Repeal Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell: Barack Obama agrees with former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff John Shalikashvili and other military experts that we need to repeal the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The key test for military service should be patriotism, a sense of duty, and a willingness to serve. Discrimination should be prohibited. The U.S. government has spent millions of dollars replacing troops kicked out of the military because of their sexual orientation. Additionally, more than 300 language experts have been fired under this policy, including more than 50 who are fluent in Arabic. Obama will work with military leaders to repeal the current policy and ensure it helps accomplish our national defense goals.

Apparently, it’s the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that he’s more concerned with following rather than the past who have alluded to the following statement:

“However, Mr. Obama first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus and then present legislation to Congress, the advisers said.”

Hopefully, it’s the consensus of our nation to also honor marriage between a man and a woman that will motivate him in not repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and supporting amendments for the states and/or the nation as a whole. Obama has always operated under whatever is politically expedient and if Americans as a whole have a “Pearl Harbor moment” as they did in 1993 to sway public opinion banning homosexuality in the military, and as it seems the gay community is having right now regarding marriage, then Obama can gauge that Americans do not want homosexuality accepted as a lifestyle for marriage or the military.

The “Pearl Harbor moment” actually came from a comment within the article by Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute at the Media Research Center when he said:

“Homosexual activists are overconfident because they have not yet seen a counterforce emerge as occurred in 1993.”

And also,

“But as the threat grows stronger, we will see groups forming and the resistance building,” he said. “Americans go about their business and are not activists until they have a Pearl Harbor moment. That has yet to happen, but it will.”

Again, Knight was speaking about the American activism against gays in the military, but that activism appears to be growing for the support of same-sex marriage.  I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not knowledgeable to the whole political structure and how “consensus” actually works within the government heirarchy, but this will be very interesting to see how it ends up.  Will Obama actually see that the consensus is against same-sex marriage and homosexuality in the military? Does public opinion truly matter with the military – moreso than public opinion regarding gay marriages?  Is the Gay community placing to much hope in the “change” that may never happen?

Time will truly tell us all we need to know about Obama and homosexuality.

Excellent article by Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby. He clearly shows the difference between what gays are fighting for compared to the bigotry experienced and fought by blacks during the civil rights era. He breaks it down showing examples of TRUE hatred compared to their forced cries of imagined bigotry from those against same-sex marriage.

My favorite part in his article is where he writes:

“Well, let’s see. The civil rights once denied to black Americans included the right to register as a voter, the right to cast a ballot, the right to use numerous public facilities, the right to get a fair hearing in court, the right to send their children to an integrated public school, and the right to equal opportunity in housing and employment. Have gay people been denied any of these rights? Have they been forced to sit in the back of buses? Confined to segregated neighborhoods? Barred from serving on juries? Subjected to systematic economic exploitation?”

Absolutely great writing with excellent points. The shame of gays becoming angry at blacks for not “understanding their plight” as if we share the same experiences of bigotry. We don’t and we need to get this message out to Governor Schwarzenegger and those activist judges: Gay Rights do not equal Black Civil Rights! Sexual preference is changeable but race is inherent and can never be changed.

Jacoby goes on to describe how ridiculous it is of gays trying to equate their rights to those civil rights of the past by saying:

“Plainly, declining to change the timeless definition of marriage deprives no one of “the civil rights once denied” to blacks, and it is an absurdity to claim otherwise. It is also a poisonous slur:”

He also makes the excellent point that if support of Prop 8 means we’re all bigots, then blacks are no better than the very racists who mistreated them in the past! We blacks overwhelmingly rejected same-sex marriage and why? Jeff Jacoby explains it best when he said this:

“. . . because they know only too well what real bigotry looks like.” (warning, very graphic image of lynching, something I’m sure no gay today has had to endure as a fact of life).

So the message to gays should be this: STOP PLAYING THE RACE CARD!

Please read the complete article here on the Boston Globe:

Playing the Race Card on Gay Marriage – Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe Columnist

ADDENDUM: See California’s Governor Schwarzenegger play the race card using interracial marriages:

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The homosexual community is planning a nationwide protest on Saturday, November 15 and will probably continue throughout the year and perhaps even through next year and forever until they get their demands met. They have a website committed to providing links to area blogs and sites that give the place of each meeting. That can be found on this web page: Join the Impact!

Why the demonstrations? They said on that page:“This is an issue of equality across America. Stand up and make your voice heard!”

The LGBT community is still comparing their rights to the California issue of interracial marriages and how the courts had to override the vote of the people of California in 1948 which voted to outlaw interracial marriages. What they refuse to accept is that skin color is morally neutral while sexual preferences is not! Interracial couples can marry and bare children. Interracial couples, whether having their own or through adoption, can still provide the stable environment that ALL children need, a mother and father in a true female and male biological makeup.

They are making this a campaign against hate (see their “Fight the Hate” icon above). Is that true that we who oppose them hate them? Only partially. We HATE their HOMOSEXUALITY which is outright immoral. We do not hate the individuals at all. We have the right to hate immorality. Hollywood and San Francisco and all that support them are not recognizing and understanding why those of us who voted for Prop 8 can possibly be so “hurtful” towards the LGBT community. For one, Hollywood and San Francisco are great examples of the immoral sewage that is spilling out of California, so it makes sense that these two places would support homosexuality.

Yes, it hurts for the LGBT community to be told that homosexuality is immoral.  But there are major differences in fighting for continuing immoral acts compared to fighting for civil rights of those with different skin colors from the majority.  An example is the 4Simpsons blog which gives a quick rundown on the why not to support those unions here.

See next post on Playing the Race Card on Gay Marriage to show why gay rights does not equal civil rights of the past.

There has been a disturbing trend in our nation of people calling themselves Christians, while obviously living a lifestyle of sin. I don’t mean just homosexual “Christians” which seems to be our hot topic these days, but heterosexuals who show no sexual constraints at all and yet will sit up in church Sunday after Sunday. Drug users, alcohol abusers, wife-beaters, liars, cheaters, and the list goes on. They wear the name of Christian, but make no attempt of leaving behind their lives of sin.

I’m not speaking of those who are battling with sin, who are honestly seeking God’s will while struggling with sin in their lives. People who repent, and seek the strength through Christ for righteous living are not the ones I’m speaking of here. But the ones who are proudly living a life of sin while excusing or ignoring it while yet calling themselves Christian, but in reality are the true children of the devil.

What first prompted me to write about this topic isn’t only the ongoing discussions with homosexuals who are proud of calling themselves Christian while practicing homosexual sex, but the tons of others who also call themselves Christians while living quite loosely. The 70% of blacks who voted against same-sex marriage leave me wondering what percentage of that number are responsible for our high divorce rate, out-of-wedlock-births, STD’s and AIDs and that list goes on.

If any call themselves Christian, then a very urgent self-examination is required. Take a look at these scriptures:

7 Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.

8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. – 1 John 3:7-10

The “practice” of sin is the emphasis of these verses. If we take the time to give ourselves a quick self-examination to see if we are in the faith, we would probably be able to answer our own question: Am I of the devil or of God?

5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified. 6 But I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified. 7 Now I pray to God that you do no evil, not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may seem disqualified. – 2 Corinthians 13:5-7

The article below goes into depth of the verse, 1 John 3:10, by one of our foremost of Christian theologians and bible teachers Dr. John MacArthur, head pastor of Grace Community Church. So if you’ve been living a questionable lifestyle, please carefully read below:

Marks of a True Believer

Why Christians and Sin are Incompatible
by
John MacArthur

UPDATE: In addition to the article, there is a Conclusion at the end which summarizes it, Questions/Quiz, and a section titled: “Pondering the Principles” which gives helpful suggestions in tackling habitual sin in one’s life – for those who truly desire to live after God! An excellent bible study!

Racism is reeling its ugly head as reports of anger by the LGBT community directed towards blacks is growing.  Looking for scapegoats in their anger and frustration is driving many gays to vent at those they blame.  The Mormon church has been getting the brunt of most of their frustrations but now many are turning their anger toward blacks and apparently, it doesn’t even matter if the blacks are on their side with their No on Prop 8 signs.

According to sites such as a gay blog, Rod 2.0, many blacks, gay and straight have been verbally abused by many gays.  One example is of Geoffrey, a black UCLA student who had joined the protest outside of the Mormon Temple in Los Angeles.  He said the following:

“It was like being at a klan rally except the klansmen were wearing Abercrombie polos and Birkenstocks. YOU N****R, one man shouted at men. If your people want to call me a FA****T, I will call you a n****r. Someone else said same thing to me on the next block near the temple…me and my friend were walking, he is also gay but Korean, and a young WeHo clone said after last night the n****rs better not come to West Hollywood if they knew what was BEST for them.

Two other black gay men who were even carrying No on Prop 8 signs during the protest, were still subjected to the racially verbal abuse when told:

Three older men accosted my friend and shouted, “Black people did this, I hope you people are happy!” A young lesbian couple with mohawks and Obama buttons joined the shouting and said there were “very disappointed with black people” and “how could we” after the Obama victory. This was stupid for them to single us out because we were carrying those blue NO ON PROP 8 signs! I pointed that out and the one of the older men said it didn’t matter because “most black people hated gays” and he was “wrong” to think we had compassion. That was the most insulting thing I had ever heard. I guess he never thought we were gay.

This racism was highlighted in an excellent article by ex-gay Christian activist James Hartline titled: Racism & Bigotry Are Big Components of Gay Leaders Fighting Prop. 8. Just viewing some of the comments on his blog it is apparent that many are in disbelief that this is even happening.

According to James’ article, even gay leader Wayne Besen makes some surprising comments regarding blacks who voted against gay marriage and for Prop 8 by saying in 365gay.com:

“I can understand why white gay people are angry. I certainly am.  But let’s take a step back and look at this dispassionately. I believe our failure with the African American vote (70 percent voted in favor of Prop.) has more to do with education levels than race. In general, people with lower levels of education – of any race – do not vote for gay rights. White people are twice as likely to graduate college as black people. This accounts for the difference by race on Prop. 8.”

and he continues:

“people with lower levels of education” do not vote for gay rights.

Now, this is from a man who has called for no racism on his organization’s blog, TruthWinsOut.org (TWO) when he says:

“It is reprehensible to look for scapegoats and target innocent people with vile racial epithets,” said TWO Executive Director, Wayne Besen.

It is apparent that Wayne Besen doesn’t understand the depth to his own racism.  Blacks are idiots who voted for Prop 8.  Just getting them educated is his theory.  Wow!  Please read James Hartline’s entire post on this subject!

I’m going to share my theory to why 70% blacks voted for Prop 8 and something that was recognized by even the black lesbian writer, Jasmyne Cannick in her Los Angeles Times editorial, No-on-8′s White Bias when she says:

“But the black civil rights movement was essentially born out of and driven by the black church; social justice and religion are inextricably intertwined in the black community. To many blacks, civil rights are grounded in Christianity — not something separate and apart from religion but synonymous with it. To the extent that the issue of gay marriage seemed to be pitted against the church, it was going to be a losing battle in my community.”

Here is a lesbian who gets it while white LGBT’s are busily demeaning the intelligence of black people by saying their lack of education is the reason.  No, the reason is because of the culture of Christianity which most blacks adhere to and the teaching that homosexuality as a sin.  There is no separation of one’s firm religious convictions and how they may vote on an issue.

Black ministers joined forces with other Christian pastors in getting the word out that Prop 8 was against what God has ordained: sex between a married man and a woman.  Of course, the black community has much to explain in why it’s babies out of wedlock and divorces are so high, but the fact remains that it at least recognizes that marriage between two same sexes isn’t the norm.

Spread the word: Blacks are not ignorant, they just happen to believe that homosexuality is sin accoriding to biblical teachings and that marriage of two immoral people is completely unacceptable.  It doesn’t take a PhD for a Christian to understand that.

So the message to the LGBT community is this: don’t waste your time “educating” black people unless you can convince someone that Jesus Christ never existed and His word is a book of fables.

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Prop 8 Protesters (video updated weekly with new video)
(click into picture for larger view)

UPDATE 11/12/08: (Reports added as news comes in)

• Watch church lady meet same-sex ‘marriage’ protesters
• Lesbians, condoms go wild in attack on Christian church

Pro-homosexual, pro-anarchy organization named Bash Back

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In California, over 70% of blacks voted in favor of the ban. 70% of Californian blacks have decided that gay rights does NOT equal civil rights!

The sad part of this entire gay marriage debate is that gays are clueless as to why so many do not support their lifestyle. The fact that so many people became alarmed that they don’t want their children exposed to the homosexual lifestyle without their consent and voted for the ban should send a strong message. Something isn’t right if our children have to be shielded from it!

If it was natural and morally good, parents would welcome homosexuality. But it’s not and now must be reduced back to where it belongs: in the privacy of one’s own bedroom.

I’m sure this will be fought and I hope President-elect Obama takes into consideration that the most liberal state in the nation, California along with Florida which both voted for him and Arizona, have voted against gay marriages. In considering the democratic process, either Obama will leave it to the states or support a federal amendment banning same sex marriages forever. How he’ll actually deal with it will be very interesting.

Now for my gay commenters who post here regularly, I didn’t vote against YOU. I voted against the act. You may insist on continuing calling me a bigot, but that’s your own opinion with nothing else to back it up. It is not bigotry to vote against something that is WRONG! Remember, it is not wrong to be black and there is no ACT to being black. The act of homosexuality is the problem and that’s why so many have voted against the marriage of two homosexuals.

I won’t dare ask you NOT to stop being homosexuals. It’s deeper than that.

I’m asking you to consider Jesus Christ to change your life. That will be the only way to experience true happiness. The only way to experience TRUE CHANGE!

You must be born again! (John 3)

Wow! Mixed emotions. Very sad that McCain wasn’t elected, although not surprised it would go down this way. But at the same time it was very historical that a black man was voted as President. The only way Obama could make it to the White House was through a concerted effort by Americans of ALL colors and backgrounds.

Martin Luther King’s dream was looking more and more real while looking at the sea of people in Chicago’s crowd to welcome Obama into the presidency. A black president and a black first lady. Historical!

Perhaps if nothing else some real racial healing can finally take place. The pain of past slavery can truly be tucked away. Where’s the white supremacy that many blacks complain of? Perhaps that cry can now be silenced. No more excuses. No more finger pointing at others. Yes – ALL black people CAN!

As a conservative black woman, I can’t help but to be concerned for our future. But I’m praying that things go well and our country becomes stronger, wiser, and … well, I’ll just wait and see.

I can’t wait for November 4th! I’m tired of the debates, the commercials, the stealing of signs, attacks of people who don’t agree with anyone’s sides and the tension within the family that politics usually always brings.

Right now I care very much for the issues and who wins for President, but my life won’t stop if things don’t go my way and won’t be too ecstatic if things do go my way. Life will continue, and as a Christian, as much as I hope for the best, biblical prophecy warns that things will only get worse for the Christian and for the world – preparing the way for Christ’s eventual return! People in alarming numbers will continue turning their back on God, rejecting Christ and worship the idol of man himself. Man serving only selfish desires while ignoring biblical principles for God’s human creatures. (Romans 1:18-32)

Doom and gloom? Where’s the joy? The joy is this – that I belong to the one called the Almighty God! I have peace in knowing that Christ is my Lord and Savior and that I will share His message to as many as possible! I possess life eternal (1 John 5:11-12) and what awaits me past this life (2 Peter 3) (John 14:1-3) is so incredible that even the bible can’t describe it (Revelations 21:1-2). I have no fear of not being with God because He promised that once you accept him as Lord and Savior, you will never lose your standing with Him – you are sealed for the day of redemption! (Ephesians 4:30)

So with that, my perspective is put everything in its proper place: do my civic duty and vote for whom I believe will serve our country best as well as the issues. I’ll pray for all those involved and be happy with whatever outcome because no matter what, God is still in control!

Update: Please check out Pulpit Magazine’s thorough breakdown of Romans 8:28 as it pertains to this election! Thanks to Lois for the link! Also check out fellow blogger La Shawn Barber’s post on similar topic simply titled “Eve.”