Pastor: Obama has no 'black experience' to speak of
Pastor: Obama has no 'black experience' to speak of
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 7/3/2009 6:00:00 AM
A conservative black pastor and former NFL linebacker says he's highly offended that President Obama would compare the plight of homos*xuals to that of blacks during the Civil Rights Era.
On Monday, President Obama told a gathering of homos*xuals at the White House that he is aware that many of them "don't believe progress has come fast enough," and compared their struggles to those of blacks during the Civil Rights Movement.
Ken Hutcherson, the senior pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, says the comments are especially disturbing from an individual who is supposed to be familiar with "the black experience."
"But I guess we...have to ask, 'Even though he is black because his father was, what is his "black experience"?' He doesn't have any. He was raised by a white mother and a white grandmother, so this man has about as much black experience as my Doberman Pinscher -- and I guarantee [that] my Doberman Pinscher doesn't have any," he points out. "There is nothing, nothing that compares between what the Afro-Americans went through and what homos*xuals are going through now."
Hutcherson expresses disgust with evangelicals who still support President Obama, despite his promotion of policies that are at odds with scripture. He says such individuals are part of the "evangellyfish" movement in America.
"A person can be as black as a piece of coal, [but] if he goes against God's biblical views, I would not support him, I would not endorse him, I would not even give a smile in his direction so people could even think that I endorse him," he states, "because God is my God, the Bible is my playbook, and I run it the way it is written."
During his speech to homos*xuals on Monday, Obama suggested that Christians like Hutcherson who oppose homos*xuality on biblical grounds hold to "worn arguments and old attitudes."
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 7/3/2009 6:00:00 AM
A conservative black pastor and former NFL linebacker says he's highly offended that President Obama would compare the plight of homos*xuals to that of blacks during the Civil Rights Era.
On Monday, President Obama told a gathering of homos*xuals at the White House that he is aware that many of them "don't believe progress has come fast enough," and compared their struggles to those of blacks during the Civil Rights Movement.
Ken Hutcherson, the senior pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, says the comments are especially disturbing from an individual who is supposed to be familiar with "the black experience."
"But I guess we...have to ask, 'Even though he is black because his father was, what is his "black experience"?' He doesn't have any. He was raised by a white mother and a white grandmother, so this man has about as much black experience as my Doberman Pinscher -- and I guarantee [that] my Doberman Pinscher doesn't have any," he points out. "There is nothing, nothing that compares between what the Afro-Americans went through and what homos*xuals are going through now."
Hutcherson expresses disgust with evangelicals who still support President Obama, despite his promotion of policies that are at odds with scripture. He says such individuals are part of the "evangellyfish" movement in America.
"A person can be as black as a piece of coal, [but] if he goes against God's biblical views, I would not support him, I would not endorse him, I would not even give a smile in his direction so people could even think that I endorse him," he states, "because God is my God, the Bible is my playbook, and I run it the way it is written."
During his speech to homos*xuals on Monday, Obama suggested that Christians like Hutcherson who oppose homos*xuality on biblical grounds hold to "worn arguments and old attitudes."
... 'Even though he is black because his father was, what is his "black experience"?' He doesn't have any"...
I beg to differ with this statement. President Obama doesn't have to have a slavery history in order to "have an experience". Being black regardless and growing up in America qualifies him as "having a black experience". He's been called the N word and been subjected to racial slurs like any other black male growing up in America. Come on people, let's stop playing the race card against our own. Perhaps he's not black enough for some, but we must agree that he's still black as well as he's married to a Black woman and has Black kids. I really don't think we should even try to question President Obama's "blackness". Yes he's misplaced comparing the GLBTs to Blacks civil right history, but let's not question the man's black experience.