One of the things that I hate as a Christian is people who have used my faith as a shield to try to mask their bigotry and hatred of GLBT people.I've also been distressed about this negative trend that started in the mid 90's. We have had increasing numbers of conservative Black megachurch pastors cooning for white fundamentalist pastors. They have not only acted as a conduit for injecting these misguided beliefs into our community, they have pimped their own hatred of GLBT people for media attention and faith based bucks.
I've also been angry about the appalling silence from progressive Black pastors and their failure to call out the conservafools for sullying the activist legacy of the Black church.
I don't like the conservative megachurch ministers or the 'prosperity gospel' they pimp from their pulpits. I believe it has been harmful to our community and the civil rights cause. It has caused a schism in the Black community and diverted the attention of the Black church away from its historic ongoing mission of speaking truth to power and standing up for the powerless.
In too many cases, these megachurch ministers have spent more time doing photo ops, kissing up to a party that has no love for us. and opposing the advance of civil rights rather than being on the front lines fighting for their passage.
They've spent so much time mouthing the words 'Thus sayeth the Apostle Paul' than saying 'Thus sayeth Jesus'
One of the people I really can't stand is so-called ex-gay Donnie McClurkin. He's a real life Amityville horror (was born in Amityville NY) who has a long history of anti-gay statements and Republican ass kissing.
But at the recent COGIC convention in Memphis he outdid himself by calling gay people 'vampires'. Donnie, you need Jesus. As a matter of fact you need to be praying to God and asking to take the anti-gay hate away.
I as a proud African descended transperson have enough to deal with from white and Catholic fundies. Now here you go drinking the Hateraid Fierce from 55 gallon drums and stirring up the Black ones.
Some of my TransGriot readers over the last two days hit me up on Twitter and Facebook. They stated I should have made Donnie the Shut Up Fool! award winner for the week and I'm beginning to concur with you. His self hatred and jealousy of Tonex is so obvious at this point that even Stevie Wonder can see it.
But he's definitely in the running for the Shut Up Fool! Of The Year Award.
The sad thing is that McClurkin and ministers like him are turning gay and straight people away from Christianity in droves with this repeated anti gay rants.
It's also sad that people like Donnie McClurkin who claim to be 'Christian' are anything but that