http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/18/southern-baptist-convergence/?ref=politics
The reason for all the excitement is this: the 2012 convention, which opens Tuesday in New Orleans, will elect a black man as president for the first time in Southern Baptist history.Fred Luter, the presumptive nominee and pastor of New Orleans’ own Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, said that his imminent election marks “a new day in the Southern Baptist Convention.” The current president, fellow New Orleans pastor David Crosby,called the vote “a great, hopeful, powerful message to our city, our culture, our convention and our country.” No one claims that the election will usher in a colorblind Christian utopia. “We have a long, long way to go in America as far as racial reconciliation,” Luter told PBS.
i'm encouraged but still reserved as to what will happen as far as policy and action's after the election.
In recent years, conservative white Protestants have made a special effort to reach out to black believers who share their views on theology and social mores — all the more so as Republicans gear up to woo the “black vote” in November. After all, pollsters have found that black Protestants often agree with white evangelicals on the importance of religious faith and the sinfulness of homosexual behavior. They are no great supporters of abortion rights. They ought to be natural allies in the fight to “defend the family” and preserve America from the forces of secular humanism.
is this all just a ploy by evangelical 's to garner black christian supporter? i'm sorry i think it is, given their me,me hate everybody but our own, constant degredation of Blacks majority is trying to raise the "James" Crow laws again, carry guns hate half the country. i would rather not see So. Black Christians not hitch their horse's to that wagon.
Yet to many African-American Protestants, “evangelical” and “the Christian Right” remain white words, and their voting record proves it.
i wrote this last year on this blog, i think it is and will remain a relevant question that deserves and honest response.TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2011
DOES FAITH MATTER EVEN IF IT'S CORRUPTED?
THE TEA PARTY IS MISGUIDED JUST AS THE GOOD 'OL BOYS OF THE PAST. HATING, SO SELFISH THEY WOULD LET US ALL CIRCLE THE DRAIN JUST TO GET THEIR WAY,WHILE WRAPPED IN THE FLAG, THEY HAVE SO MANY FLAGS, HITLER, RACIAL CARICATURES OF OUR PRES., SWASTIKAS WITH THEIR SPECIAL KIND OF RELIGION THEY WILL KILL THE U.S., BUT IT'S OK BECAUSE AT LEAST WE DIDN'T LET HIM BACK IN THE WH.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/#43885829
