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<b>African-American Pastors Unite for The Fellowship Global Tour to Counteract the Anti-Gay Evangelical Christian Movement in Africa Led by Rick Warren</b>
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<b>The Fellowship Global Partners with Africans in Uganda, Rwanda, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya to Impact the Lives of African Sexual Minorities, Influence Economic Development
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New York, NY April 1, 2015 – Spearheaded by The Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (“TFAM”), its founder and presiding Bishop Rev. Dr. Yvette Flunder and executive director, Bishop-Elect, Pastor Joseph Tolton, the organization's international outreach ministry, The Fellowship Global (“TFG”), has launched a month long tour of key African nations where LGBTI communities continue to experience extreme discrimination and persecution. These countries include: Uganda, Rwanda, Cote D’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo (“DRC”) and Kenya.<br />
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Until April 30, 2015, Pastor Tolton will be on the ground working to counter this effort and provide an uplifting alternate narrative. The message advocates for inclusion, economic justice and the reconciliation of all people of African descent globally. “As black gay Christians who identify with Pentecostal worship and as people of social justice, we are countering the work of conservative, mostly white American evangelicals who are doubling down on their attempt of spiritual colonization of Africa,” said Pastor Joseph Tolton.<br />
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The mission of the tour is to: bring global attention to these human rights issues in Africa; support affirming African organizations and local movements; and, promote governmental policies and the policies of organized religious structures that support LGBTI dignity, inclusion, and justice. A variety of certified academic trainings, worship events and economic development opportunities will be made available.<br />
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One of the tour's primary goals is to clearly articulate the inextricable link between the global agenda of US conservative Christians like Rick Warren, the future of Christianity, and the fate of LGBTI people in Africa. “The future of Christianity is not Europe or North America, but Africa, Asia, and Latin America,” said Pastor Rick Warren. Africa is ground zero for the Christian evangelical right-wing movement. Under the veil of economic development, Rick Warren is also planning a conference in Rwanda that sells a dangerous theology. This anti-gay propaganda has spawned the passage of anti-gay legislation across Africa and notably in Nigeria, Uganda and Gambia.<br />
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equality and justice, the organization plans to establish new chapters of the
United Coalition of Affirming Africans (“UCAA”) in the DRC and Cote d’Ivoire.
UCAA chapters were established in Kenya in October 2013 and in Rwanda in May
2014. TFG will also produce at least eight spiritual/worship
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I am a devoted Christian wife and mother. I've always believed </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">that my children should be free to live out God's will for their life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I've also believed that my children should always be able to come to me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> and was scared. I had the opportunity to make good on my promise</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> He loves God and desires God's will for his life. He's very active in the</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> Biblically based responses to such disapproval.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> I'm so grateful that Samuel Brown wrote such a book. His writing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> this book to ALL Christians wanting to know what the Bible does and does</span></div>
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Masterfully crafted by Samuel Marcus Brown, ‘Stop The Judgment: Going After the Heart of Traditional Church Folk on Sexuality and Marriage Equality’ turns the spotlight onto the many contradictions and myths surrounding Christian love. Brown fuses scripture with personal experience as homophobia within Christianity is explored candidly. It begs the question; if Jesus said “love thy neighbor as thyself”, why do millions of Christians inflict pain, torment and suffering on the LGBT community?</div>
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<br />Everything is showcased in ‘Stop The Judgment: Going After the Heart of Traditional Church Folk on Sexuality and Marriage Equality’. Hard-hitting and unafraid to rock the waters of convention, Brown holds nothing back when openly admitting that millions of Christians are just “wannabe” believers choosing to use Jesus Christ as a scapegoat for their own opinions.<br /><br />The book’s synopsis is best explained by renowned educator, Thelma L. Phillips:<br /><br />Stop the Judgment, by Samuel Marcus Brown, is a personal expression of what Jesus says about Christian love, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” It also speaks on the hypocrisy and misguided teaching of ministers, preachers, bishops, elders, and the everyday lay person on their interpretation of what “homosexuality” means according to the Word of God. Their voices are direct attacks on non-heterosexual people which demonstrate hatred, discrimination and bigotry at the highest level. This book is also written for all people – straight, gay, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, on the down-low, and more importantly, the “wanna-be” Christians in many cases are hiding behind God’s words because of their own personal experiences, self-hatred or confusion due to teachings from someone who has taken away or added to Christ’s teachings.<br /><br />“To put it bluntly, too many Christians wear their prejudice as a badge of courage, especially surrounding issues of homosexuality and marriage equality,” admits Brown. “This book outlines my concern and contention for these attitudes, which is extremely timely considering the rapid changes in marriage law within the United States.”<br /><br />Continuing, “The book is a cocktail of my own experiences and wider and notable examples of homosexuality being condemned by the Christian church. I also include a letter of heartfelt thanks to President Obama, who has become the mature voice of reason within our nation; thus inspiring an entire generation. Being a gay African American has in itself presented a big challenge when it comes to me taking my arguments public. However, I am not afraid and refuse to stand by.”<br /><br />Reader Edwin Jackson was also impressed with Brown’s clear and passionate case, writing, “Samuel Marcus Brown has done it again by writing another insightful and hard hitting, truth filled book! This book is a needed message for this hour with so many churches ragging on those of us who are homosexual and born again. He addresses every facet of areas that the Christian church throws at us from the clobber scriptures, HIV/AIDS, eunuchs in the Bible, whether Jesus Christ, our savior, ever talked about homosexuals, can practicing homosexuals be born again, etc.”<br /><br />‘Stop The Judgment: Going After the Heart of Traditional Church Folk on Sexuality and Marriage Equality’ is available now: <a class="extlink" href="http://amzn.to/1n3FsTi" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease; border: 0px; color: #005c9c; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="http://amzn.to/1n3FsTi">http://amzn.to/1n3FsTi</a>.<br /><br />More information can be found on Facebook: <a class="extlink" href="https://www.facebook.com/samuelmarcusbrown" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease; border: 0px; color: #005c9c; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.4s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="https://www.facebook.com/samuelmarcusbrown">https://www.facebook.com/samuelmarcusbrown</a>.<br /></div>
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About Samuel Marcus Brown<br />Samuel Marcus Brown, Simply a “church-boy” at heart who loves God, his family, gospel music, positive music of all genres, travel and his mom’s old-fashion pound cake. He has always been inspired by Jesus who navigated the purpose of his life among the traditional religious church folk of that day. At the tender age of 40 Samuel shared his expression of personal truth with his parents and family in a very short self-published book entitled ‘Son of a Bishop, My Testimony.’ Samuel is dedicated to the duty of building a bridge of love and understanding up and outside the walls of traditional religion and gay stereotypes. Dr. Martin Luther King’s sense of justice has always stirred the core of his soul. Samuel believes that you will enjoy this honest, heartfelt walk down a historic corridor of a religious tradition; enveloped by preconceived ideas of sexuality and spirituality. This walk promises to enlighten those with an open heart and it will inspire the oppressed.</div>
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Stop the Judgment: Searing New Book
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Masterfully crafted by Samuel
Marcus Brown, ‘Stop The Judgment: Going After the Heart of Traditional Church
Folk on Sexuality and Marriage Equality’ turns the spotlight onto the many
contradictions and myths surrounding Christian love. Brown fuses scripture with
personal experience as homophobia within Christianity is explored candidly. It
begs the question; if Jesus said “love thy neighbor as thyself”, why do millions
of Christians inflict pain, torment and suffering on the LGBT community?</div>
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Atlanta, GA -- (<a href="http://www.sbwire.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SBWIRE</a>) -- 07/23/2014
-- Christianity is globally renowned for its outward face of unconditional love,
acceptance and ability to find strength in the darkest of situations. However,
as a proud member of the gay community, Samuel Marcus Brown has endured vicious
oppression and hatred from his fellow “Christians”. In his compelling new book,
Brown exposes this widespread and growing problem, while contrasting these
shallow opinions directly against the word of scripture.<br />
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Everything is showcased
in ‘Stop The Judgment: Going After the Heart of Traditional Church Folk on
Sexuality and Marriage Equality’. Hard-hitting and unafraid to rock the waters
of convention, Brown holds nothing back when openly admitting that millions of
Christians are just “wannabe” believers choosing to use Jesus Christ as a
scapegoat for their own opinions.<br />
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The book’s synopsis is best explained by renowned
educator, Thelma L. Phillips:<br />
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Stop the Judgment, by Samuel Marcus Brown, is a
personal expression of what Jesus says about Christian love, “Love thy neighbor
as thyself.” It also speaks on the hypocrisy and misguided teaching of
ministers, preachers, bishops, elders, and the everyday lay person on their
interpretation of what “homosexuality” means according to the Word of God. Their
voices are direct attacks on non-heterosexual people which demonstrate hatred,
discrimination and bigotry at the highest level. This book is also written for
all people – straight, gay, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, on the down-low,
and more importantly, the “wanna-be” Christians in many cases are hiding behind
God’s words because of their own personal experiences, self-hatred or confusion
due to teachings from someone who has taken away or added to Christ’s
teachings.<br />
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“To put it
bluntly, too many Christians wear their prejudice as a badge of courage,
especially surrounding issues of homosexuality and marriage equality,” admits
Brown. “This book outlines my concern and contention for these attitudes, which
is extremely timely considering the rapid changes in marriage law within the
United States.”<br />
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Continuing, “The book is a cocktail of my own
experiences and wider and notable examples of homosexuality being condemned by
the Christian church. I also include a letter of heartfelt thanks to President
Obama, who has become the mature voice of reason within our nation; thus
inspiring an entire generation. Being a gay African American has in itself
presented a big challenge when it comes to me taking my arguments public.
However, I am not afraid and refuse to stand by.”<br />
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Reader Edwin Jackson was
also impressed with Brown’s clear and passionate case, writing, “Samuel Marcus
Brown has done it again by writing another insightful and hard hitting, truth
filled book! This book is a needed message for this hour with so many churches
ragging on those of us who are homosexual and born again. He addresses every
facet of areas that the Christian church throws at us from the clobber
scriptures, HIV/AIDS, eunuchs in the Bible, whether Jesus Christ, our savior,
ever talked about homosexuals, can practicing homosexuals be born again,
etc.”<br />
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‘Stop The
Judgment: Going After the Heart of Traditional Church Folk on Sexuality and
Marriage Equality’ is available now: <a class="extlink" href="http://amzn.to/1n3FsTi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://amzn.to/1n3FsTi">http://amzn.to/1n3FsTi</a>.<br />
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More information can be
found on Facebook: <a class="extlink" href="https://www.facebook.com/samuelmarcusbrown" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="https://www.facebook.com/samuelmarcusbrown">https://www.facebook.com/samuelmarcusbrown</a>.<br />
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About the Author<br />
Samuel Marcus Brown, Simply a “church-boy” at heart
who loves God, his family, gospel music, positive music of all genres, travel
and his mom’s old-fashion pound cake. He has always been inspired by Jesus who
navigated the purpose of his life among the traditional religious church folk of
that day. At the tender age of 40 Samuel shared his expression of personal truth
with his parents and family in a very short self-published book entitled ‘Son of
a Bishop, My Testimony.’ Samuel is dedicated to the duty of building a bridge of
love and understanding up and outside the walls of traditional religion and gay
stereotypes. Dr. Martin Luther King’s sense of justice has always stirred the
core of his soul. Samuel believes that you will enjoy this honest, heartfelt
walk down a historic corridor of a religious tradition; enveloped by
preconceived ideas of sexuality and spirituality. This walk promises to
enlighten those with an open heart and it will inspire the oppressed.<br />
For more information on this press release visit:
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Stop the Judgment, by Samuel Marcus Brown, is a personal expression of what Jesus says about Christian love, “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” It also speaks on the hypocrisy and misguided teaching of ministers, preachers, bishops, elders, and the everyday lay person on their interpretation of what “homosexuality” means according to the Word of God. Their voices are direct attacks on non-heterosexual people which demonstrate hatred, discrimination and bigotry at the highest level. This book is also written for all people – straight, gay, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, on the down-low, and more importantly, the “wanna-be” Christians in many cases are hiding behind God’s words because of their own personal experiences, self-hatred or confusion due to teachings from someone who has taken away or added to Christ’s teachings.<b> Thelma L. Phillips, Retired Educator</b></span></span><span style="color: #20124d;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Jason Collins is the first active athlete in major American sports to come out of the closet as gay; history has been made for this act of courage but not without some negative controversial statements from ESPN Analyst Chris Broussard. Broussard basically stuck a pin in Jason Collin's bubble of good energy and good tidings that poured in from his fellow athletes, celebrities, The President of the United States and other politicians. Chris Broussard's critique of Jason Collins is that he is a sinner for proclaiming his truth and Broussard feels justified in his judgment due to the fact that he is a Christian.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">The condemnation of gays, homosexuality & same gender love; identifying it as sinful by traditional religious folk is nothing more than an institutionalized prejudiced religious myth.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"> Broussard wrote that his belief lies in his religious background. His religious background is just that as he proclaimed. The prejudice that dominates the subject matter of homosexuality stems from his religious background which has very little to do with Gospel of Jesus Christ. </span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">Jesus Christ suffered enough on the cross; why place more suffering by inflicting pain to people in his name. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Jesus the Christ was all about truth and he was so not into the religious traditions of men and their judgments and inconsistencies. Jesus Christ who is the reason for Christianity never ever said a negative word concerning same gender love; the word homosexuality was just added to newer versions of the bible in the 1940s. I sincerely believe that Jesus addressed "sexuality" in the 19th Chapter of Matthew; please click on this link</span> <a href="http://www.sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html">http://www.sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html</a><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">It took a lot of soul searching and self-evaluating for Jason Collins to understand and embrace his truth after many years of lying to himself, family and society at large.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">It is a very big deal for anyone to finally come into their truth and to find peace within themselves and with God; he should be celebrated for displaying great courage and fortitude.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">It is my understanding that the common denominator of most religions and their purposes for the individual soul is to walk in truth, honesty, peace and integrity. It's unfortunate that those common factors are not celebrated by most people in the Christian religion when an individual decides to be authentic and live in their God given truth.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">It breaks my heart that it has become business as usual or I should say judgment and condemnation as usual at every hand when we hear or read about another soul who has found their peace with God concerning their sexuality. This common behavior from church folk forces people to stay in the closet of hypocrisy. Here </span><span style="color: #783f04;">is an example; click on this link</span> <a href="http://www.sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html">http://www.sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2011_09_01_archive.html</a><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I am a son of a preacher and a son of the church; I am a product of this religious tradition. I am a Christian man who truly loves the Lord and I too came into my truth as a gay man with my family a little bit later in life than Jason. I sincerely pray that there is some hope left for my Christian brothers and sisters who shake their heads in judgment & disgust; we can sometimes be the most flawed, jacked-up & hypocritical people. But if it wasn't for grace...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Chris Broussard said gays and those living in "unrepentant sin" are "walking in open rebellion to God and Jesus Christ. My focal point is that the bible does not define same gender love as sin; the scriptures quoted by church folk to condemn homosexuality, gay people & same gender love has absolutely nothing to do with love. The King James Version Bible scriptures in the book of Leviticus 20:13 addressed bisexuality of sorts for the Israelites. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis Chapter 19 condemned gang rape with a parallel story in Judges Chapter 19. The story in the 1st chapter of Romans addressed a group of people who became God haters turning from God to worship idol gods of sex and then participated in orgies. 1st Corinthians 6:9 condemned male prostitution & their customers.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">The Gospel of Jesus Christ does not condemn same gender love or marriage equality.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I truly believe that the leaders of today's Christian religion should repent for the unloving rebellion against gay people and same gender love which is truly and clearly not a choice of any of God's creation; they should repent for misrepresenting God's love & his sovereignty.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I would really love to see the body of Christ (Christians) really mature and re-study the bible, understand it within it's proper context and then execute it's wonderful virtues; veering away from the teachings and preachings of our forefathers who ignorantly & divisively misunderstood the subject matter of same gender love. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">Here is full article article about Jason Collins</span> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/jason-collins-gay-athletes-fans-react-article-1.1330344#ixzz2SLTXnvOC">http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/jason-collins-gay-athletes-fans-react-article-1.1330344#ixzz2SLTXnvOC</a> <br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">by Samuel Marcus Brown</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;">Dear President Obama,</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">Initially I was not a staunch "Obama Supporter" during the 2008 Democratic Primaries. As a matter of fact I was a strong Senator Hillary Clinton enthusiast; simply because I liked her and I felt that she was the better candidate with more proven experience and that she had the "Clinton Momentum" behind her and I was just fine with a 'President Hillary Clinton'.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">During the primaries I came to know who you were by watching your speeches & debates on TV and by reading about your background & history from various news sources and skimming through a couple of your books.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> I was struck by what you stood for; I would always tell my friends that I loved where your heart was and that I thought that it was with honesty, integrity and with the working class, the poor and the maligned. I saw you as a compassionate man with a big heart.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">Some of my friends were not happy that I continued to support Senator Hillary Clinton during the primaries but I would always tell them that if you were to win the primaries that you would have my full support.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">Ever since your victory as the democratic nominee for president; you have had my un-yielding support.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">I have never been a flighty person or one to give into peer pressure and to change my mind due to popularity. I feel that loyalty and personal conviction is very important in every aspect of ones life. I have always believed that consistency and the above mentioned qualities are some of the keys to success; that is exactly what I have seen from you during the primaries and and during your 1st term as the President of the United States of America. </span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;">I am more than thrilled for your 2nd term as the President of the United States of America; I wish that I could be there for your 2nd Inauguration... CONGRATULATIONS!</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">Thank you for standing up for same gender loving covenants; your decision to do so has become a voice of reason for some in the traditional religious community to stretch beyond their personal and religious doctrine of prejudices of sorts. There are many examples in the Gospels of the bible of where Jesus had to admonish some of the religious leaders and some of their traditions of that day.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">The lineage of anti-gay religious traditions and individual personal prejudices stems from biased traditional religious leaders from the past <u><em>(not from the Gospel of Jesus Christ "King James Version")</em></u> and are now perpetuated by many of today's modern church leaders. Many of today's leaders are propagating the same anti-gay religious tradition; some out of willful scriptural misinterpretation and some who just ignorantly uphold the religious tradition for the sake of tradition.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"> Please know that I do not say "ignorantly" to demonize my fellow Christian brothers and sisters for I love them with all of my heart. I would love to see them and their religious organizations become the light of world as they should be.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">Thank you First Lady Michelle Obama for being the president's loving wife & partner; enhancing his core values of equality that you both share. Thank you Sasha and Malia for being the inspiration and motivation of your father's sense of fairness for all people and for future generations.</span><br />
<span style="color: #7f6000;"><br /></span><span style="color: #7f6000;">President Obama I believe that you exemplify real Christian values and I think that you live by this quote written by Mayor Cory Booker. I absolutely love and embrace this quote:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>"Before you speak to me about your religion, first show it to me in how you treat other people. Before you tell me how much you love your God, show me how much you love all of His children; Before you preach to me of your passion for your faith, teach me about it through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I'm not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as in how you choose to live and give."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><strong>~Cory Booker, Newark, New Jersey</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Please take a look at this interesting study of sexuality by Faris Malik</span> </span><a href="http://sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html"><span style="color: #0b5394;">http://sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html</span></a></span></strong></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">Tell The Gospel Truth Bishop Eddie Long, T. D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Rick Warren & Bishop Charles E. Blake Sr. etc. etc. etc.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Each of these gentleman are very high profile pastors who've garnered national and international platforms as "Christian Leaders" who speak into the lives of God's people on a weekly basis. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They are to teach and preach 'The Gospel of Jesus Christ' right? Do they really preach 'The Gospel of Jesus Christ' or are they bound to spout and instill the customary prejudiced popular religious traditions of their forefathers?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am sometimes puzzled and then I become frustrated when I listen to these leaders who are very influential and charismatic; they are very eloquent, intelligent, seminary trained and they fully understand the differences of teaching and preaching from the holy scriptures within the context of the text that they are presenting. If I were to speak in church language; they should be experts in rightly dividing the word of God. Would they rather preach and proclaim scriptural truth or take comfort in those religious traditions that has been ingrained into the brain of church society. Shouldn't the whole truth of the 'Gospel of Jesus Christ' be considered greater than the fear of breaking flawed religious customs, traditions and doctrines?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scripturally speaking; it is simply not a truthful, biblical or a Christian principle to condemn and rail against</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">same gender loving people or marriage equality for same gender loving people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jesus The Christ who is the Savior of this world certainly did not... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;">We must understand the verses of scripture within the context of the chapter within the text of the King James Version of the bible.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"> (please disregard the newer versions of the bible that biased, anti-gay individuals has tampered with and have added the word homosexual and other verbiage to deceive many)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"> Leviticus Chapter 20 & Chapter 18 seems to condemn bisexuality of sorts... </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;">The notorious story of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis chapter 19 condemns gang rape just as it condemns gang rape in the extremely horrible story in the 19th chapter of Judges.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> Romans 1st chapter was an incident in the bible that condemned a sect of heterosexual people who</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> whole-heartedly and selfishly rejected God by participating in orgy and idol worship to idol gods of sex and animals. 1st Corinthian 6:9 condemns male prostitutes and their customers.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;">The above verses has been used divisively and traditionally to condemn same gender love and same gender loving people. Either of the verses does not have anything to do with love. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">It really makes my skin crawl when these particular progressive forward thinking ministers are pressed for crucial answers on national and international stages & forums speaking to millions of God's people regarding sexuality and their personal beliefs; their canned answers is always the same popular answer that satisfy the masses of their faithful followers; "homosexuality is not God's best choice for people and that they believe that the bible condemns homosexuality and that they are following Christian principles."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I know that they must know better.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was born and raised in one of the largest and most extreme anti-gay religious organizations; </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Church of God in Christ better known as C.O.G.I.C which has always had a pretty large number of closeted members which includes the deacons, missionaries, church mothers, ministers, elders, pastors and bishops who fight against their own sexuality. They gladly fall in line with the traditional anti-gay theology which births ultimate hypocrisy on a very large scale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many more years of my life were spent in the congregation as a long time member of the now infamous Bishop Eddie Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Even though he was known to bash and slash the many gay members in his congregation with cutting and down-right insulting sermons for many years; I still personally felt that he had a greater revelation of truth on the subject matter. I truly felt that he was on his way of becoming bold enough to declare contextual scriptural truth regarding sexuality as he boldly proclaimed truth and broke tradition in various areas of traditional religion in the congregation. I thought that the transparency that he seemed to display at times would supersede him and catapult his ministry to a level beyond the traditional prejudiced religious community. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was sadly disappointed about the well known accusations of same sex encounters and the manipulation of several young men in the congregation against Bishop Long and I was much more disgusted when Bishop Long folded like one of the folding chairs in the church's social hall when he was faced with this personal adversity on a grand international level that required him to act with integrity and to lean-on and to not under-estimate the power of TRUTH.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">After being indoctrinated in hypocrisy for most of my life; it is yet a struggle to unmask fully to my family and close friends so therefore I still pray for Bishop Long even though I left his congregation almost 2 years ago. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are to study and interpret the bible historically correct. The definition of study is to learn about a subject by reading and researching. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The definition of interpret is to establish or explain the meaning/significance of something. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The definition of history is the past events of a period in time or in the life or development of a people, an institution, or place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We should only quote scripture within the context of the matter. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The definition of context is circumstances or events that form the environment within which something exists or takes place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Let us stop perverting the gospel of Jesus Christ and giving Christians a bad name with the personal prejudices of man-made religion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; line-height: 16px;">The TRUTH of God's word understood in it's proper context will always confirm itself... TRUTH always arrives a little later than the speedy popular lies and customary deceptions that people tend to cling-to and engage themselves in... but once old TRUTH arrives it cannot be stopped or reversed;</span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px;"> remember Colonial SLAVERY? There are many scriptures in the bible to justify slavery if they are taken outside of the context of which they were written.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I charge you as Christians and people of God to be guided by the truth of God's love and to lay down the dogma and prejudiced traditions of man's religion and live by the light of God's love.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll leave you with this quote from my little book entitled 'Son of a Bishop, My Testimony' that has resonated with several people who've read it:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>"Homosexuality carries such a stigma and a reproach in traditional Christian homes, churches, and the community at large. There are many men and women who will and has gone to great lengths to distort the truth about their own realities. Anytime you seek the approval of people who does not understand your reality and you allow their opinions to cause you to misrepresent your own life; self-hatred and self-destruction will set-in and your whole life of lies and not loving yourself will destroy you."</b></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I would like for you to forward this posting to some of your Christian and non-Christian friends & family.</span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #783f04; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><br />
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Although it has been a hot topic for a few years now, the subject of
homosexuality among members of the "church scene" seems to meander
from point to point, reference to reference, with no real direction. This
week, I became a little full, and felt the need to release my own frustration
with the dialogue.<br />
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Because I have had down time from work, I've spent a lot of time online,
following leads about people, reading about people I know and don't know.
What started out as an incidental landing on one minister's youtube video led
me into an absolute whirlwind of facts, rumors and realizations. It
started with me learning of one young man who was a dynamic, up and coming
minister in a Texas town. I had no idea who he was and stopped in my
tracks because of his picture. The eyes said it all. Then I found
other videos of this man preaching and exalting God, yet saying so much more
through subtle mannerisms and body language. Things that he probably wasn't
even aware of, or thought he had under wraps. Then I realized this man
has been dead over twenty years now. He was murdered by
intruders into his home that he is said to have known. The bells went off
in my head. Those bells many try to ignore. There were other
mentions that I began to read that led to the possibility that this man had
been living another life, separate from what he displayed in the pulpit and
that this life, had eventually caught up with him in a tragic way.<br />
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Then, during the same week, I got a text message from a friend letting me know
that a popular musician and "Bishop" in my town had been found dead in
his home. A young man. So
sad, and such a loss of talent. As I reminisced through his
videos on youtube I ran across new ones I had never seen, those of him actually
preaching. And there he was, talking about people being loose in their
morals and sexually unchaste. Not that unusual, right? Yes, if you
take into consideration that this is the same man who has been seen<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=835418469077874220" name="_GoBack"></a>, taking advantage of a particular clandestine location
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East Coast cities over the years, I've heard many a story along these
lines. Even prominent ministers, out and about looking for chance encounters
to ease their loneliness. Often times, it seems they think they are
incognito for some reason; that while going to the bath-house or traipsing
about in the cruising park they won't be recognized. Driving around
in their cars late at night, looking for a chance hook-up with the trade of
their liking; getting caught, locked up, having a revival to preach
but needing someone to come to the jail to bail them out (in a semen stained
shirt); perhaps, joining a group of gay men for a stroll through New
York City's Village, wearing clothing that the Saints would collapse in horror
from if they saw the spectacle. Even taking chances on having
an encounter in the church itself, bringing a "date" back to the
office or some secluded nook. If memory serves me correctly, I think
someone once told me he actually had sex on the pulpit, or at least in the
sanctuary, of a church he didn't belong to. If you ever have honest
and revealing conversations with gay men, more and more of these stories
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In 2012, at a time when the
ways of obtaining instant media are numerous, scandals and their resulting
fallout are available to everyone. Most people in the church are aware of
the mega scandals...the Eddie Longs....etc. Those types of men have been involved
in scandals for years. It just used to take a much longer time to find
out about them and they were more easily hushed. But there seems to be a
lack of attention being paid to the very things that are occurring in
one's own, every day, run of the mill congregation. For example, how
many churches (even the small ones) deal effectively with the obvious
passing of HIV among the gay men in their midst? Yes, there are
churches where there is a core of gay men who tend to hang out together
outside the sanctuary, forming a "supportive" sub-community
that often becomes incestuous, and deadly, once the virus has been
introduced to the mix. But as the deaths come, one by one, the church
goes on, continuing as if there is no real problem. After all, they
brought that judgment down upon themselves didn't they? And the focus,
the bashing, the calling out, most always seems to be directed toward the
men. What about the gay women? Oh that's right. They more
easily blend-in and hide themselves. So, it's mostly the men who get
bashed from the pulpit, those "homa-sexuls". And its these men
who often find themselves trolling about the city late at night, under the
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new. We have all heard about these goings on. The problem is that
there has been no change in the way the church is dealing with it.
Obviously, there is a disconnect with the spiritual wellness of men who feel
compelled to seek love in the wrong places. Or to have a meaningful relationship,
yet get into the pulpit and bash the very people they sought love
from. Or choose to remain single yet because of career goals, family
commitments, even the hunger for recognition and power, play the role and
appease the masses. This more often than not, leads to a
"hetero" marriage and even children; until the dust settles and
the true yearnings become too great. The underlying issue has still
not been dealt with and is psychologically maiming. There is no way to
live a well-adjusted adult life when there is such a huge burden to bear, day
after day, year after year. Then the irresponsible behavior starts.
How many gay people have been run away from the church and find themselves
caught up in deviant behavior to ease the pain? How many gay people have
not turned to the church, when in need of spiritual care, because of the
messiness of those in office? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am so done with Black
church. I really am. And although there
are problems in all denominations, Black and otherwise, I'm
talking just about the Black experience now. And the more I think
about it the more I'm convinced that most Black "religion" is just a
little understanding of the truth of who God is...combined with some nice
stories to make sermons out of...and some iconography gleaned from European
religion. Take that and mix it with a never ending quest for identity and
belonging...and there you have it. But alas, this is not meant to be a
bashing of the Black church. In fact, I love what the Black church
represents. However, I believe there has come a time for stepping back
and reassessing just what is going on. The type of church that helped
usher in the civil rights movement may not be the same type of church that
needs to deal with this new civil rights issue; whether to allow people to be
who they are, without guilt or shame while tending to their spiritual
growth. For those who see it as simply an issue of sin.....if it were as
simple as praying it away, or making someone go to special counseling sessions,
or having a Donny McClurkin give a testimony, then we would see
change. And if one wants to talk of praying away "sin"
then let’s pray away obesity, which is rampant in the church. Let's pray
away divorce. Let's pray away the mixing of fibers in our clothes.
Let's pray away the eating of shellfish (lawd, that would throw some people in
a tizzy and ruin their after church dinners). I have <i>never</i>
heard a mass alter call for any of these wrongs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The spotlight is usually
always directed toward gays: What about people who call themselves
"bi-sexual"? It would seem they have it easier because
they can perpetrate the hetero life and slip in and out of gay encounters when
necessary. To me, this is even worse. Making a commitment to
someone and betraying that trust, I would think, should call for a greater
rebuke. However, in the church there are probably thousands of seemingly
hetero couples who have various types of secret "setups". The
husband or wife is sneaking out for same sex encounters, or they may even have
an open relationship, whether or not agreed upon. Most often you find the
husbands having "special friends" that they travel with, go on
vacations with, or help get positions within the organization. These are
adult men, often with individual families and careers, who are for all intents
and purposes - lovers. I'm not even mentioning the pedophilia tendencies
of many in the clergy. And with all the various other secret deviant
activity that is actually stewing below the surface, the church still continues
to focus on GAY, GAY, GAY. I could see if one taught against the
irresponsible and whorish activities that seem to be easily enjoyed by
many who are gay. However, the totality of the ranting is primarily a
dismissal of one's actual orientation or identification as a sexual
being. Yet, men and women in church office or dedicated in the pews, must
function as productive members of the organization and even the outside
community, while harboring a broken spirit and psyche. And for those
whose lives are almost totally wrapped up in a church denomination, this can be
nothing but devastating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">This one issue, of whether a
person can actually be in love with someone of the same sex, is so ingrained in
the dogma of the church that it continues to cause the destruction of men and
women who are still, in 2012, wandering the dark streets, taking dangerous
people into their homes, going to conventions with lascivious intentions, lying
to their spouses, having unprotected and uninformed sex and even losing their
lives violently. It is time for the
church to reevaluate it’s approach to this issue. It is also time for gay men and women,
especially those in the church, to begin to respect and honor themselves and
their "temples" so that the thoughts of destructive behavior are
quieted and their lives can be lived more authentically and without <i>church
theatrics </i>to cover the hurt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-2933516488105668432012-05-14T22:26:00.000-04:002012-06-06T17:35:30.458-04:00The Choice of Sexuality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Choice of Sexuality</span></b></div>
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<b>In light of our very courageous President who has taken a strong position in support of marriage for 2 people of the same sex;</b><b> I would like to pose a couple of interesting questions and share some of the personal choices that I've made in my life.</b></div>
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<b>Do you remember the day and the exact time of when you decided to become attracted to a male or female?</b></div>
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<b>Do you remember how you said to yourself that I think that I’ll try a woman today and then I’ll try a man tomorrow?</b></div>
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<b>Think about that for a few minutes...</b></div>
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<b>Those are pretty ridiculous questions aren’t they?</b></div>
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<b>If you feel that you actually had a choice in choosing the gender that you genuinely have intimate, romantic, spiritual and sexual attraction for; I’m afraid that you’re probably lying to yourself and to whomever you’re intimate with or may have dealt with intimately.</b></div>
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<b>Choosing to wear blue contact lenses over your brown eyes is clearly a choice.</b></div>
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<b>I chose not to lie anymore to myself, my family and friends and the women that I have had in my life.</b></div>
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<b>I chose not to live by the beat of my ego and my masculine pride to marry a woman as a facade to satisfy my perceived image problem. </b></div>
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<b>I choose to understand that sexuality is not nearly all about a sexual act.</b></div>
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<b>I chose to hold on to my faith in God and to allow Jesus the Christ to be the Lord of my life when most in Christianity reject my authenticity.</b></div>
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<b>I choose to study and understand the Holy King James Version of the bible within it’s proper context in order to reject the anti-gay religious tradition which is truly anti-Christ.</b></div>
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<b>I choose to understand that the divisive and prejudiced anti-gay sentiment in Christianity was created by flawed people within Christianity and it certainly was not created by the loving and sovereign God my creator. </b></div>
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<b>I choose to understand that the covenant of a union of love between 2 people and God is established well before the legally binding state contract of USA marriage which is a civil right for all people. </b></div>
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<b>Ultimately, I choose and try to live my life authentically and unapologetic with integrity; these are some of the real choices that I have had to make.</b></div>
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-60116066344653271102012-04-05T13:13:00.000-04:002012-04-05T13:13:53.652-04:00Religious Church Folk Executed Jesus the Christ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmYHuiJ3_C4/T3yzygCL35I/AAAAAAAAANw/zRDfhUkKVgM/s1600/jesus+cruxifixion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400px" nda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmYHuiJ3_C4/T3yzygCL35I/AAAAAAAAANw/zRDfhUkKVgM/s400/jesus+cruxifixion.jpg" width="266px" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Religious Church Folk Executed Jesus the Christ</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e69138;"> Happy Easter in celebration of Resurrection Day</span></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: small;">By Samuel Marcus Brown</span></strong></h2><span style="color: #e69138;"><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>If you were to study the life of Jesus the Christ and understand the reason of why God the creator needed him (himself in flesh and blood as his son) to walk this earth as a human being. He created environments of love, sacrifice, repentance, feeding the poor, healing physical and mental needs of the people while imparting the importance of understanding the purpose of his life by foregoing the religious traditions of that day that required obeying the law of Moses and other rituals, ceremonies and traditions that consisted of sacrificial blood of goats, oxen, sheep, bullocks and etc. to cover the sins of mankind and many other religious rituals and traditions of men posturing in the tabernacles and synagogues.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>It was the traditional religious community who resented Jesus the Christ for his new teachings about the power of faith, love and repentance that now covers sin; they didn't like the fact that he healed people on the 7th day of the week which went against their religious traditions of keeping the sabbath day holy. They couldn't stand how Jesus called them out on their hypocrisy of the things that they did and allowed on the 7th day along with all of their other inconsistencies.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong> You must understand that Jesus was considered a trouble maker and a threat to their religious customs and traditions of that day; so much so that they put a hit out on him and they eventually caught him and executed him in the most inhumane way of executing someone of that day. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>It was foretold in the old testament of the bible that Jesus would revolutionize the world through his life, death, burial and resurrection. He did not come to abolish the law of Moses; he fulfilled it by the shedding of his blood and becoming the sacrificial lamb for all of our sins. He is known today as the Lamb of God.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong> Believing and following the example of Jesus is simple, peaceful and restful. It is so unfortunate that today many traditional religious folk still undermine the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus the Christ by clinging to certain laws of Moses, religious rituals, judgment and traditions holding themselves and other of God's people in bondage; giving Christianity a bad name instead of walking in the truth of the New Covenant.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>When Jesus left the earth resurrected back to heaven; he left the believers with a gift called the Spirit of Truth which is better known as the Holy Spirit which is the comforter and conscience of our souls.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>Happy (Resurrection Day) Easter!</strong></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">A great friend of mine forwarded an email entitled </span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"> <strong>'</strong><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS'</span></strong> </span></span></div><span style="color: #b45f06;">by an unknown author. I thought the timing was impeccable; so I decided to share it in this posting which will allow you to experience the full gravity of what you just read.</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;"> May God Bless You All!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">At the age of 33,</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;">Jesus was condemned to the death. At the time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;">criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the cross by His hands and feet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long. The nails were driven into His wrist. Not into His palms as is commonly</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">muscles to support himself so that He could breath.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;">impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could not support himself with His legs because of the pain so He was forced to alternate between arching His back then using his legs just to continue to breath. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours. Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering? A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds. From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side... But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his body. A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most men would not have survived this torture.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its higher part, where His hands were nailed).Jesus had to endure this experience, to open the Gates of Heaven, so that you can have free access to God. So that your sins could be "washed" away.</span><br />
<span style="color: #b45f06;">All of them, with no exception! Don't ignore this situation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I would like for you to forward this posting to some of your Christian and non-Christian friends & family.</span><span style="color: #783f04;"><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click comment below this line.</span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-57713037939421616522012-02-01T14:40:00.001-05:002012-02-01T14:40:00.071-05:00African Americans & Real Christians should be in the Forefront of Protesting Domestic & International Anti-Gay Laws<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2VmWJVeeoOo/TykI-VEL69I/AAAAAAAAANo/LzTcNCDVAPI/s1600/David+Kata+Newspaper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2VmWJVeeoOo/TykI-VEL69I/AAAAAAAAANo/LzTcNCDVAPI/s320/David+Kata+Newspaper.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">African Americans & Real Christians should be in the forefront of Protesting Domestic & International Anti-Gay Laws and Violence</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">By Samuel Marcus Brown</span></strong></div><span style="color: #0b5394;"><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">In January of 2011 David Kato from the African nation of Uganda was bludgeoned to death. He was murdered shortly after a tabloid newspaper published names and photos of men it alleged were gay. He was a promiment gay rights activist. The cover included the words, "Hang Them". Authorities contend Kato's sexual orientation had nothing to do with the murder. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">In March 2009 a group of American evangelicals held rallies and workshops in Uganda discussing how to turn gay people straight, how gay men sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” intended to “defeat the marriage-based society.” </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Uganda is a country where homophobia is so severe that their Parliament is now considering a bill to execute gay people.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Val Kalende, the chairwoman of one of Uganda’s gay rights groups, said in a statement.</span></span></div><span style="color: #0b5394;">“The Ugandan government and the so-called U.S. evangelicals must take responsibility for David’s blood.” </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">It is shameful and disgusting that some "Christians" has taken their twisted misguided interpretations of the bible; assigning them to come straight from the great sovereign God; it is this kind of narrow-mindedness which is the driving force behind the ignorant bigotry and prejudice that is being perpetuated by this religious group of anti-Christ Christians who call themselves evangelicals. They completely demoralize the Gospel of Jesus Christ and disrespect his sacrafice and then they mis-represent God's divine love and undermine his sovereignty; they should repent to the world. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">As a follower of Jesus Christ, I love the Lord God with all of my heart who've given me a peace that surpasses all of the misunderstanding of the deep seated traditional religious prejudices of men which has absolutely nothing in common with Jesus Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I have never participated nor have I ever had any kind of proclivity for pedophilia, beastiality, gang rape or orgies; which is also true for most of the same gender loving people that I know. I have never been molested nor have I ever molested anyone. However, I do know of <strong>more</strong> heterosexual people who've committed the mentioned offenses and have experienced molestation. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">As I mentioned in my previous post; I would like for all Christians and non-Christians to restudy the bible in regards to sexuality and to re-study those 5 or 6 isolated misused verses within the historical context of who it was written to, when and why it was written.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Please remember that U.S.A African slave owners professed to be Christians and they arrogantly misused and abused the many scriptural references about slavery to justify their hate and greed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Unfortunately it is the man-made Religious Establishment (not Christ or true Christians) that has faithfully & carelessly defined same gender love/homosexuality as sin. If you love God, you will then keep his commandment of loving your brother as you love yourself; love does not inflict the religious tradition of taking scripture completely outside of it's original context to demonize your brothers and sisters in order to uphold man-made doctrinal prejudicial traditions. Proper scriptural context is the key.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>Happy Black History Month!</strong></span></div><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Please click on title of this posting in order to read the entire New York Times article from last year. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;">I would like for you to forward this posting to some of your Christian and non-Christian friends & family.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click comment below this line.</span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-88027908040881285932012-01-01T00:01:00.009-05:002012-01-01T00:01:01.491-05:00For the Love of God... Stop it!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div>Happy New Year & Welcome to 2012! It's a new season and a new day and it's time to get our houses in order as Christians and non-Christians. We need peace for our mind, body and our souls. I'm talking about a sober and divine peace that will allow you to remain peaceful and restful even when everyone around you may give you a pass to worry, fret and to even act out your life in some destructive manner. <br />
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I know that over the years and probably most of your life; traditional church folk has gone rogue and have carelessly ridden roughshod over your heart, mind and have even trampled your soul by handing down an ungodly, unjust judgment of taking the word of God completely out of scriptural context to demonize your God given sexuality.<br />
I have dealt with each of those misused scriptures quite handily on this blog site; please spend the time to understand for yourself.<br />
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If you are one of those who have ignorantly (I say ignorantly in the most loving way) inflicted that kind of pain to some of God's children in his name; for the LOVE of our God, please stop upholding those man made prejudiced traditions and assigning them as coming directly from the sovereign God (i.e. U.S.A. slave owners with scriptural references professed to be Christians) and re-study God's word within the historical context of when and why it was written; you "miss the mark" when you condemn a people that God nor his son Jesus the Christ has never condemned.<br />
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If you are a non-Christian and have become a victim of the traditional Christian church who has rejected the essence of who you are; I implore you to stop and study or re-study the life and love of Jesus the Christ in the New Testament (starting with Matthew) in the King James Version of the bible. <b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u>"many of the modern versions of the bible has inserted anti-gay verbiage"</u></span></b><br />
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I promise you that the sovereign God who manifested himself as a man through his son Jesus the Christ who walked this earth (this has been documented by theologians and other scholars) over 2,000 years ago does not reject your sexuality (which is not sinful in itself) and he loves and cares about you more than you could ever know.<br />
<i>John 3:<sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-26137" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; text-align: -webkit-auto; vertical-align: text-top;">16</sup><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">For God so LOVED the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</span></i><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-26138" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top;">17</sup>For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.</i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i><br />
</i></div>When you start to read and understand who Jesus the Christ really was and who and how wonderful he really is and what he he requires of you... you will be amazed of the simplicity of becoming a follower of Jesus Christ. (the word 'Christian' has been muddied up so badly by church folk)<br />
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While reading and understanding the bible; you may be overcome with a calm and a peace that surpasses all of the misunderstandings of the venomous anti-gay religious politics of man made customs and traditions that has been forced upon us for generations.<br />
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I'll leave you with these words from when <span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jesus had just admonished the people in these certain towns; they witnessed many miracles and still did not believe. </span><br />
<div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i><sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-23488" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Matthew 11:28</span></sup><span style="color: red; font-size: 16px;">Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.</span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: red;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-23489" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top;">29</sup>Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: red;"><i> <sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-23490" style="font-size: 0.65em; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: text-top;">30</sup>For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: red;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-small;"><b>A woman by the name of Lynne has one of the most wonderful blog sites that I've ever read entitled "No Junk, Just Jesus" I really would like for you to go to her site and spend some quality time there because it will change your life as Christians and non-Christians. Just click on </b></span></div><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #38761d;"><i><a href="http://nojunkjustjesus.blogspot.com/2011/11/best-of-no-junk-just-jesus-can-gay.html">http://nojunkjustjesus.blogspot.com/2011/11/best-of-no-junk-just-jesus-can-gay.html</a> </i></span><br />
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</div><div style="background-color: white;"><strong style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I would like for you to forward this posting to some of your Christian and non-Christian friends & family.</span></strong><br />
<strong style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #29303b; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04;">I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click comment below this line.</span></strong></div></div><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-66155903397542736642011-12-01T13:03:00.001-05:002011-12-01T13:03:01.042-05:001st Same Gender Loving Couple in the Bible?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mMYEMK9zVpQ/Tr78oSsME6I/AAAAAAAAANU/MfyjCRR1h6k/s1600/black+gay+couple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mMYEMK9zVpQ/Tr78oSsME6I/AAAAAAAAANU/MfyjCRR1h6k/s320/black+gay+couple.jpg" width="250px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>Most traditional Christians will assume and then dare anyone else not to embrace their ideology; that the loving covenant shared between David &Jonathan was nothing more than a deep brotherly love just as I love my 3 biological brothers.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>Traditional Christians and non-Christians will accuse me or anyone else of twisting the scriptures; even if we actually read and understand the story within the context of how it was actually written.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong> It would be considered a "holy" offense to most traditional Christians and non-Christians and their ideology for anyone to assume or even allow the thought of anything close to homosexuality to enter their brain when it comes down to the story of David & Jonathan in the books of 1st & 2nd Samuel in the bible.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>The definition of ideology is a meaningful belief system: a set of beliefs, values, and opinions that shapes the way a person or a group such as a social class thinks, acts, and understands the world.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>Our hard lined anti-homosexual Christian tradition has trained us not to read anything extra into the heavily passionate expressions of love shared between David & Jonathan. When you read the story of David and Jonathan in the King James Version of the bible; it is abundantly clear that they had a special love for each other that was expressed like no other covenant of love between 2 individuals through-out the entire bible. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong> I have extracted 9 passages of scripture from the story of David & Jonathan from 1st and 2nd Samuel; after reading the passages, I would like for you to grab your King James Version of the bible in order to read the entire story; 1st Samuel 13th chapter through 2nd Samuel 1st chapter. </strong></span><span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>Your interpretation of the story may or may not differ from mine however, understanding the story within it's context is the key; not ones ideology.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><em>1 Samuel 18:1 And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.</em></strong><br />
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<strong><em></em></strong><em><strong>3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.<br />
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4And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.</strong></em><br />
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<strong><em>1 Samuel 20:4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.</em><br />
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<em>17And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.</em><br />
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<u><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><sup class="versenum" id="en-KJV-7761" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: text-top;">**30</sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Charis SIL', charis, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?</span></span>**</em></u></strong><br />
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<strong><em>41And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.</em></strong><br />
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<strong><em>1 Samuel 23:17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.</em></strong><br />
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<em><strong>2 Samuel 1:26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.</strong></em><br />
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</strong></em><strong><span style="color: #783f04;">A few years ago I read this very fascinating "observation" regarding the story of David & Jonathan; it was linked in one of the comments on my blog site. This "unknown" writer did an outstanding job of chronicling the above verses and chapters in 1st & 2nd Samuel with historical data infused with his or her personal commentary.</span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;"> The reader who sent me that link back then did not indicate if he wrote this piece or not even after reaching out to him. I have decided to share it with everyone. Open your heart and soul to this very captivating historic experience.</span></strong><strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">The bible is a book that despite it's graphic detail of murders of entire cities, cutting off of hundreds of dead men's foreskins, beheadings, and fire and brimstone all-over, is actually pretty conservative when it comes to sex.<br />
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Most of the sexual situations and implications are hidden in allegory or colorful, well chosen language. This is done as to be direct in what it's trying to say, without being too blunt and unsettling to the reader or congregation being spoken to.<br />
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One of the stories that contain several innuendos that are constantly ducked and weaved is the tale of David and Jonathan.<br />
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It is a story that would be described as a romantic friendship. A romantic friendship is a term in literature that more-so applied to men in the 1500's-1800's. It described a deep intimate friendship between two men where the relationship went deeper than that of a man and woman. These were relationships where men sometimes lived under each others roof, sometimes slept in the same bed, and shared all that the other had.<br />
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These men in romantic relationships were usually grown men with beards and money and businesses and education. Or they were dirt poor and dirty with nothing but their families and their friendship to one another. But the friendships were deep, spiritual, life-long, and sometimes out in the open.<br />
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They even included blood covenants of sorts. Sometimes it was almost like a civil union.<br />
It was small and intimate and not always legal binding but a testament of commitment and love to one another. In other words these men had these marriages mainly for themselves and not as an institution of society like traditional marriage between a man and a woman.<br />
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So how does this apply to David and Jonathan. Well the King James version of the Bible was written by you guessed it King James the 1st. A man who ruled in Scotland in the mid 1500's.</span></strong><span style="color: #e69138;"><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">King James was open with his bi-sexuality to the point where it made people extremely uncomfortable, having live-in male lovers and courtesans and the whole nine yards.<br />
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He oversaw the editing of the final version of the bible you and me read today.<br />
The bible needed to be a book that people could carry around with them, instead of an entire encyclopedia. To spread the message of the word of God, the story needed to be simplified dramatically. And so it was simplified.....dramatically.<br />
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Every word in the bible was meticulously translated from other languages, entire books were cut out, stories chopped in pieces and re-edited<br />
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What was lost in the original text is still preserved in the Jewish and Greek translations which tell us a lot more about certain stories and passages. <br />
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What we can find in the story of David and Jonathan in the original Greek are constant emphasis on Phallic images. And a language of love usually only reserved for a man and a woman. What we have in the tale of David and Jonathan is the deepest love story in the bible. And it's between one man and another. <br />
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It was a Romantic Friendship including a "Marriage of Brotherhood" or a Blood Covenant in the very beginning of the story.<br />
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<em>1 Samuel 18:3-18:4</em><br />
<em>Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.</em></span></strong><br />
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I won't get into the implications of the entire story too much as the numerous homoerotic text have been covered over and over again. Just do a google search and there are a hundred sites which can help explain these better than I ever can.<br />
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But there is one verse that always seems to be missed, and it is an important one.<br />
1 Samuel 20:30<br />
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother's nakedness?<br />
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It sounds strange but it's not.<br />
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The words "sin of thy mothers nakedness", almost always refers to sexual deviation in the bible. As it was thought that if a child of a certain age had seen his mother completely naked he/she would be sexually malformed for life. It's an old wives tale.<br />
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The words "son of a rebellious woman" is basically an off- hilt insult to someone's character, kinda like calling someone a "son of a bitch" would be today. It is not necessarily an insult to one's own mother.<br />
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The word "have chosen" is in the original Greek are a lean on the words Comrade or Paired with or Bonded together. <br />
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Ok.<br />
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So here is the context of the situation. Saul the king of Israel has been repeatedly trying to kill David by spontaneously throwing his spear at him on some Dr. Jekyl type madness every time David plays his wonderful harp music for him. <br />
David eventually gets scared of Saul and his mental problems and goes into hiding by himself, away from everyone in some cave out in yonder. <br />
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Prince Jonathan(Saul's son) finds David in his hiding place and tells him he is being silly and his father wouldn't really want to kill him. <br />
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But, David stays in hiding away from Saul just in case. <br />
King Saul knows that David and Jonathan are very very close, to the point were it makes Saul uncomfortable as he sees David as a threat to his son's throne and his lineage. There is a looming tone in the story that David will one day be the King of Israel. Saul does not like that idea, and is insanely jealous of David for a variety of reasons.<br />
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He thinks his son Jonathan is throwing everything away for his love of David.<br />
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So while sitting over the dinner table having a feast one day Saul quietly ask Jonathan where David is, as he hasn't been seen in a few days. <br />
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Jonathan dodges the question with some made up bullcrap answer that Saul easily sees through.<br />
Saul becomes enraged, at his son and shouts: <br />
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You son of a Bitch!!!! <br />
Don't you think that I already know you have chosen David as you Lover/Comrade in the confusion of your twisted sexually versus your right to the throne. You are a disgrace to yourself </span></strong><span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>__________________________________<br />
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Then Saul bluntly ask Jonathan to go find David and Bring him back so he can kill him.<br />
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1 Samuel 20:31<br />
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.<br />
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Yeah he was pretty blunt with it. He was saying that you will never inherit your rightful place on the throne unless David is gone. <br />
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Jonathan then ask Saul, Why should he die? What has he done?<br />
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1 Samuel 20:32<br />
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?<br />
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Saul answers Jonathan kindly by picking up his trusty javelin and hurling it at his own son. <br />
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1 Samuel 20:33<br />
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And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.<br />
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After that stunt Jonathan obviously hauls ass out the room like a bat out of hell.<br />
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Jonathan realized a while ago that David is the right man for the throne, the one chosen by God to rule over Israel.<br />
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In order to keep this destiny from being sidelined and to protect David's life, he has to keep his distance away from him permanently. If he is seen with David again his father has a chance of finding him and killing him. So the men cry together and hold each other and say their final goodbyes. And these sweet words are spoken as they solidify their covenant to one another.<br />
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Samuel 20:41-42<br />
And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded. <br />
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And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.</strong></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138;"><strong>There is so much more to the story, that is just as beautiful, including the famous words of David to Jonathan after he has died in battle. If you want to know more you can research that for yourself.<br />
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But I draw attention to this verse 1 Samuel 20:30 as it seems to be one that no-one can explain.<br />
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It's a verse obviously drawing attention to some perceived sexual sin. All other verses in the text can be explained away as a deep male friendship.<br />
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This one indeed cannot. It is obvious in it's implications. It's Sexual.<br />
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King James and those men who edited the bible in the 15th century knew what they were doing, and they knew what the original writers were trying to imply with this story. I'm sure many of them has set foot in that world of romantic male friendships and have been blessed with it's graces. It was a common concept throughout their day.<br />
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They left in more words and innuendos than they needed to, to color the story in a way that certain perceptive people would get the idea. Or, at least to install the proper picture in the back of your mind.<br />
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The question is do people in this world of today get the picture at all.</strong></span><span style="color: #e69138;"><br />
<strong>Or do they simply just refuse to see it.............</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #e69138;">Author, Unknown</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I would like for you to forward this posting to some of your Christian friends & family.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click comment below this line.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"></span></strong></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-45105380131614246672011-10-05T16:22:00.001-04:002011-10-12T09:59:38.414-04:00Encouraging Messages that Inspires & Motivate...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zGu_Ysh-qxk/TovIcoQXDHI/AAAAAAAAANI/U9r8ZBR_WZ0/s1600/black+men+bible+study.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212px" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zGu_Ysh-qxk/TovIcoQXDHI/AAAAAAAAANI/U9r8ZBR_WZ0/s320/black+men+bible+study.jpg" width="320px" /></a></div><strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I decided to share just a handful of fairly recent messages from among many that I have received in the last 4+ years from some of my readers. All of the messages and comments that I have received vary from positive and some negative; some have been posted to the blog site and others were sent via email.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">The negative messages assist me in sharpening the point of what I am implying in my communication and the positive energy of encouragement inspires and motivates me to keep fighting the good fight of faith and truth.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;"> I am sometimes overwhelmed with tears of gratitude and thanksgiving from your positive expressions; for the very simple fact that someone clearly understood and got the message. I sincerely thank you all for reading, sharing and expressing your thoughts with me so eloquently.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Living an authentic life is truly the key to life, love and happiness. Being fearful of </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">"what the people" family, friends or church folk may say or think of you is certainly not a healthy "religious" way to live out your life. </span></strong><br />
<em><u><strong><span style="color: #783f04;">1 John 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. </span></strong></u></em><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Samuel Marcus Brown</span></strong><strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #073763;">Mr. Brown,</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #073763;"></span></strong><strong> </strong><strong><span style="color: #073763;">I find everything you had to say to be really fascinating. You handle what you say with bravery and a sense of integrity. As a gay man, I have gone down some dark roads trying to reconcile myself with my spirituality. I just want to say that I found what you had to say to be inspiring. I have come to realize that if being gay is a sin, it is worse of a sin to lie to yourself and members of the opposite sex, because that is what I think is hurting people more. Lies are not good. Godly people shouldn’t get us to lie to ourselves.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #073763;">Your findings about the psychology of religion today is spot on. They have turned Christianity into a passionate tirade against homosexuality than an adoration for God. Thanks again for your time and God bless you.</span></strong><br />
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<strong> </strong><strong><span style="color: #073763;">Brent Arnold</span></strong><strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">Good morning...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">Yes, its past 6 a.m.....and I haven't been to sleep all night (long story)....and was just on your blog page. First of all, I have to say thank God for a friend of mine who sent your link to me. I just wanted to also thank you for having the courage to be so fearless and revealing. Sooooooo many of us are having the same struggles. And the struggles come in so many different varieties. I found your blog to be refreshing and confirming. I am going through my own spiritual renewal at the moment and perhaps will share with you at another time. However, in short, I am a Black gay man, about to turn 50 next year (unbelievable) who has known his sexuality all his life....grew up in Evangelism...father an Elder of the church....etc., etc. I am constantly having to fight depressive episodes due to not living a truly authentic life, especially in respect to true intimacy and actually believing that I will ever have a meaningful and fruitful relationship (never even been in love....and almost 50.....pathetic!!! LOL) But I have withdrawn from the church world for some time now, trying to figure out just what I have been doing all this for and why? I feel that God has been bringing certain things across my path, such as Rev. Carlton Pearson's book..and now your blog. Things that are helping me find a clearer road, without all the superfluous church chatter!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">Although I do not blog, I have many continuous conversations/discussions going with a handful of close friends who are struggling...that could really be turned into one! I will certainly be forwarding your link to several more people in order to stimulate our dialogue further. I really look forward to your continued submissions.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">God Bless,</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">D.C.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: lime;">Elmundo6 said... </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: lime;">Hi. I am new to your site but I love it. Thanks for your blog and your insight. I am a 45 year old black gay man, and I have been affected by the message from the black church on homosexuality. In my life I have felt suicidal and down. For years, I shut myself off from family and friends because I didn't want to get too close to people because I feared they would find out who I really was--a gay man. I've lost a lot of good people being in my life that way. Jesus came that we may have life and have it more abundantly. I was not living that abundant life and I'm afraid so many of my gay brothers and sisters are not either. Even now, it's a daily journey. Thank you, man for sharing your story and words with us. It helps more than you know.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Sam,</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">I'm go glad u sent this 2 me. I've read thru the 1st part of this and I find it extremely interesting. It's so great 2 me, because some of my thoughts and views R in agreement with the article. I'm glad that articles like this R being written and put out there. There is so much ignorance in the world when it comes 2 Homosexuality. Even though this article may not make a difference 2 someone who firmly believes that Homosexuality is a "choice" , it still may make someone who does believe that way "think" about it. I do know 4 a fact that my twin brother's perception has changed 4 the better. He knows now and understand that I didn't "choose" 2 B this way and he loves and accepts me and now he has gay friends.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #351c75;">Some of them R his frat brothers. (He's a KAPPA) He's teaching his sons tolerance and about diversity and about not being judgmental .</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: magenta;">Alicia said... </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: magenta;">Long time coming! </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: magenta;">It is long overdue, and there should be even more repentance and apologies going on. The way that LGBT are treated is a disgrace and God is not pleased. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: magenta;">There is no TRUE Christian with the LOVE of God in them that can spread hate and intolerance in the name of God. You just won't find a true follower of Christ thinking or acting this way.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: magenta;">There are many gays and lesbians who need to be set free who are also Preachers as well but have to hide in closets. They should not have to hide, I can't imagine how frustrating that must be.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: magenta;">Honestly, I am somewhat glad this scandal hit with Eddie Long, I say that because enough is enough of hiding and condemning and trying to 'change' a someones sexual identity when you yourself are the very thing you preach against.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: magenta;">I pray God uses all of these things for a NEW BEGINNING in the Christian world, it is overdue. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: magenta;">Thanks for posting this, love ya my brother!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I would like for you to forward this posting to some of your Christian friends & family.</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click comment below this line.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;"></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-32723512552235086252011-09-01T09:34:00.000-04:002011-09-01T09:34:20.810-04:00Anniversary of the Bishop Long Scandal approaching; I was interviewed by BET as a gay member...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" closure_uid_4zeimz="133" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://2.gvt0.com/vi/mopr0yYM_W4/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mopr0yYM_W4&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mopr0yYM_W4&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="113"><br />
</div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="113"><strong><span closure_uid_4zeimz="192" closure_uid_fpeo0s="123" style="color: black;">Black Entertainment Television (B.E.T) News Correspondent Tony Anderson conducted an interview with me; Samuel Brown as a gay New Birth Missionary Baptist Church member since 1993 (now former member) last year in October 2010.</span></strong></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="113"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="134"><div closure_uid_qz7fj5="103"><strong><span closure_uid_4zeimz="193" style="color: black;">When the scandal first surfaced in September 2010 I gave my then pastor and spiritual leader the "benefit of the doubt" in sincerely trusting that he would have fully understood the gravity of displaying honesty and integrity at such a time as this... was that too much to expect?</span></strong><strong><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span></strong></div></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="137"><strong><span style="color: black;">This is what I wrote in my open letter to Bishop Long. </span></strong><a href="http://sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2010/09/open-letter-to-bishop-eddie-long.html"><strong><span style="color: black;">http://sonofabishop.blogspot.com/2010/09/open-letter-to-bishop-eddie-long.html</span></strong></a></div><strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="152"><div closure_uid_fpeo0s="128"><div closure_uid_qz7fj5="108"><strong><span closure_uid_4zeimz="194" closure_uid_fpeo0s="127" style="color: black;">As a believer and follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ; granting forgivness to one another is a given... losing trust & respect for a spiritual leader is a completely different ball game. </span></strong></div></div></div><strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="156"><strong><span style="color: black;">You’ll have to understand my background and my aspirations in order to understand why I stayed at New Birth for so long even in the midst of the stormy infamous homophobic sermons and the "notorious march".</span></strong></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="156"><strong><span closure_uid_4zeimz="195" style="color: black;">I would like to address those of you who just don’t understand. </span></strong></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="168"><strong><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span></strong></div><strong><span closure_uid_4zeimz="196" style="color: black;">I was raised in a very large traditional religious family where both my parents were and are ministers in the notoriously brutal anti-gay Church of God In Christ organization </span></strong><br />
<strong><span closure_uid_4zeimz="196" style="color: black;">(that is simply the truth) there is still much that I love about C.O.G.I.C due to my roots. </span></strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="157"><strong><span style="color: black;">I have always loved the Lord and the church and have always had a heart to worship and please the Lord. After years of feeling personally bashed by the church, I continued to fellowship with the “saints.” </span></strong></div><strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="160"><strong><span closure_uid_4zeimz="197" style="color: black;">After moving to Atlanta to attend Morehouse College and finally joining New Birth a few years later. New Birth became a breathe of fresh air compared to where I came from… in spite of the negative attacks that came across the pulpit against innately born homosexual people. I was finally forced to rely on my strong convictions that my mentor Jesus Christ loved and accepted me just the way that I was made by God. Although I really tried, I could never receive those nasty messages from the traditional organized church that I would be “damned to hell” and that I was “not in the Lord’s will” due to the authenticity of my innermost being. </span></strong></div><strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="161"><div closure_uid_fpeo0s="139"><strong><span closure_uid_fpeo0s="130" style="color: black;">One day I read a book entitled “What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality” by Daniel Helminiak Ph.D. I read that book and many others of that genre including a Bishop Long book a few years later entitled “Gladiator, Strength of Man” This book transforms men into gladiators <u closure_uid_fpeo0s="146">that stand against injustice amidst impossible odds</u>. My life has not been the same since that spring of 2000. I finally got my footing; I have grown spiritually in the most non-traditional religious manner and I truly know my purpose.</span></strong></div></div><strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="170"><div closure_uid_fpeo0s="145"><strong><span style="color: black;">My heart is filled with joy when I visit Pastor O.C Allen’s “Vision Church of Atlanta”, Pastor Dennis Meredith’s “Tabernacle Baptist Church” Pastor Randy Morgan’s “New Covenant Church of Atlanta", Bishop Jim Swilley’s Church in the Now and Dr. Kenneth Samuel’s “Victory for the World Church” these and a few other churches provides a refuge of inclusion to the traditionally renounced individual. </span></strong></div></div><strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="171"><strong><span closure_uid_fpeo0s="141" style="color: black;">In the bible at the Last Supper before Jesus was crucified; he had a conversation with Simon who is known as Peter and this is what he said: <em closure_uid_fpeo0s="142"><u>Luke 22:31And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren</u>.</em> This is what I have been charged to do; strengthen my same gender loving brothers and sisters who have not yet found refuge by sharing my blog site with Bishop & Mrs. Long, his staff and other members of the church and the community at large for the last few years. I have also self-published my personal testimony entitled “Son of a Bishop, My Testimony” the tool that I used to “come-out” to my parents with in 2005. I am prepared and ready to eradicate the prejudice and the ignorance that surrounds sexuality which prevents people from completely loving and embracing one another around the world.</span></strong></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="172"><strong><span style="color: black;">You may click on the title of this posting that will link you to the complete transcript of my B.E.T News interview.</span></strong></div><strong><br />
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<div closure_uid_4zeimz="173"><strong><span style="color: black;">Samuel Marcus Brown</span></strong></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="173"><span style="color: black;"><br />
</span></div><div closure_uid_4zeimz="173"><strong><span style="color: black;">I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site.</span></strong></div><strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">This posting and the video is a reflection of spiritual truth, love and humility. This is an example of what will unfold when true Christians lay down divisive doctrine and the "religious" traditions of men that have only harmed and driven a wedge of derision towards a misunderstood population of people for many generations; assigning personal prejudice and injustice to the sovereign God.</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>My heart and soul is satisfied to see what just happened last month in the Heartland of America. </strong><strong> I pray for a "ripple affect" from the center of our country to each coast and then global saturation.</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">To God Be The Glory. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Samuel Marcus Brown</span></strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: orange; font-size: large;"><strong>The Heartland Proclamation</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><strong>by the Heartland Clergy for Inclusion As Christian clergy</strong></span></div><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>we proclaim the Good News concerning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) persons and publicly apologize where we have been silent. As disciples of Jesus, who assures us that the truth sets us free, we recognize that the debate is over. The verdict is in. Homosexuality is not a sickness, not a choice, and not a sin. We find no rational biblical or theological basis to condemn or deny the rights of any person based on sexual orientation. Silence by many has allowed political and religious rhetoric to monopolize public perception, creating the impression that there is only one Christian perspective on this issue. Yet we recognize and celebrate that we are far from alone, as Christians, in affirming that LGBT persons are distinctive, holy, and precious gifts to all who struggle to become the family of God.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #38761d;">In repentance and obedience to the Holy Spirit, we stand in solidarity as those who are committed to work and pray for full acceptance and inclusion of LGBT persons in our churches and in our world. We lament that LGBT persons are condemned and excluded by individuals and institutions, political and religious, who claim to be speaking the truth of Christian teaching. This leads directly and indirectly to intolerance, discrimination, suffering, and even death. The Holy Spirit compels us:</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><strong>to affirm that the essence of Christian life is not focused on sexual orientation, but how one lives by grace in relationship with God, with compassion toward humanity; </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><strong>to embrace the full inclusion of our LGBT brothers and sisters in all areas of church life, including leadership; </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><strong>to declare that the violence must stop. Christ’s love moves us to work for the healing of wounded souls who are victims of abuse often propagated in the name of Christ; </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><strong>to celebrate the prophetic witness of all people who have refused to let the voice of intolerance and violence speak for Christianity, especially LGBT persons, who have met hatred with love; </strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #674ea7;">Therefore we call for an end to all religious and civil discrimination against any person based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression. All laws must include and protect the freedoms, rights, and equal legal standing of all persons, in and outside the church. </span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>I would like for you to forward this posting to some of your Christian friends & family.</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click comment below this line.</strong></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-23801477019609322842011-05-26T16:53:00.003-04:002011-06-07T09:45:44.621-04:00Anti-Christ Christians...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SNuBI_DZ9J4/Td65_ECFhRI/AAAAAAAAANA/QzTOMJ3Jlik/s1600/senior+couple+going+to+church.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SNuBI_DZ9J4/Td65_ECFhRI/AAAAAAAAANA/QzTOMJ3Jlik/s320/senior+couple+going+to+church.jpg" t8="true" width="212px" /></a></div><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Anti-Christ Christians;</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">This Letter Has Been Written to Challenge the Traditional Christian</span></strong><br />
<strong>By Samuel Marcus Brown</strong><br />
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I was raised in a traditional Christian home and have attended the traditional Christian church most of my life; I've always heard about the "Anti-Christ" and that the Anti-Christ will come as an individual man who will be manifested as the great deceptive leader of the world that will reign 3.5 years before the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ certainly did not return on May 21st 2011 as recently prophesied.<br />
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Traditional Christian folk have speculated for many years of whom they predicted to be that great deceiver who is to come. Popular secular leaders from Adolf Hitler (absolutely one of the worst) to President George W. Bush and more recently President Barack Obama has been chosen, prophesied (prophelied) by many in the Traditional Christian world as the chief candidate for that damnable position. Traditional Religious folk will continue to make costly errors with their interpretation of scripture; turning people off from getting to personally know how great, loving and just our God is through his son Jesus Christ. <br />
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The definition of "anti" is to be opposed to something or expressing or holding an opposing view, especially with regard to a political issue or moral principle.<br />
<div>The definition of Christ is the same as Jesus Christ; Christ is the English term for the Greek Χριστός (Khristós) meaning "the anointed one It is a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (Māšîaḥ ...</div><div></div><div></div><strong><em>Matthew 24:23 KJV Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. </em></strong><strong><em>24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. </em></strong><br />
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Recently I had a personal profound revelation concerning what is now actually happening in the world; physically and spiritually... I briefly mentioned this epiphany in my previous post;<br />
I declared that:<br />
<strong><span style="color: blue;">"America is changing for the better in many different aspects"... "The bigots are starting to lose in all areas of life... there's a spiritual shift going on in the world right now..."</span></strong><br />
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The traditional evangelical, pentecostal, holiness "charismatic" church has been prophesying and predicting a shaking and a shifting in the church world for many years now... the true part about that prediction is that it is really happening; but not so much along the lines of their anticipated, cynical condemning message that demonizes and announces doom and gloom toward same gender loving people who didn't have a choice regarding their sexuality. <br />
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Let's talk about this "shaking" that is going-on in the church world... the irony is that "this shaking" it is the very core foundation of biblical truth and reality that is being "shook" concerning the very disparaging message of condemnation to the many same gender loving congregants of these church institutions. Mega church pastors and religious leaders world wide are being called out on their traditional doctrine of "holiness". Their feet is being held to the fire that is burning away the hypocrisy of spewing vitriol from the pulpit toward same gender loving people; <strong>some are living a double life of those that they condemn. </strong><br />
Some people are starting to read and understand the word of God within it's proper context and direction; some have stopped listening only to their pastors and the religious community who thrives on clinging-on to the unjust, anti-Christ tradition in the name of holiness. Holiness is living a life of spirit led truth and peace; not some form of religion that postulate and pontificates a battered soul into judgmental submission. <br />
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<strong><em>Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. </em></strong><br />
<strong><em>3For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.</em></strong> Jesus Christ; he is also the reason and the meaning of why Christianity exists. Did he not determine and define what is considered sin? It amazes me of why and how could a body of believers who are followers of Jesus Christ actually read and interpret the holy scriptures within its proper context; regarding the scriptures that have been misused and misinterpreted so badly on the subject matter of homosexuality or same gender loving people and then declare that they have discovered such a Rhema word in so many different other areas of ministry but they have willfully failed to ascertain a Rhema word on sexuality. Rhema (ῥῆμα in Greek) literally means an "utterance" or "thing said" in Greek. It is a word that signifies the action of utterance. In Christianity, it is used in reference to the concept of Rhematos Christou; Jesus Christ's sayings.<br />
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Was Jesus Christ the Son of God aware of God fearing people who were born naturally with spiritual, mental and physical emotions for the same gender? <strong><em>Matthew 19:12 KJV </em></strong><strong><em>(The words of Jesus) For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.</em></strong> What are eunuchs? <a href="http://www.well.com/user/aquarius/contents.htm">http://www.well.com/user/aquarius/contents.htm</a> An interesting study by Faris Malik.<br />
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If the body of Christ were to share complete bible truths within it's proper context and leave out the traditional (anti-Christ) disguise and coloration that has blanketed the body of Christ (the church) with the sensationalized historic sexual acts that specifically displayed the rampant orgy and idol worship from a sect of heterosexual people who whole-heartedly and purposefully turned their backs on God and their sexuality to worship an idol god; so God abandoned them for choosing to worship an idol god in <strong><em>Romans 1st chapter KJV.</em></strong><br />
If the church were to continue with bible truth in its proper context then one would see that <strong><em>1st Corinthians 6:9 KJV</em></strong> spoke to male prostitutes; the scriptural examples does not speak to same gender love, innate sexuality or gay people.<br />
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<strong><em>Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt LOVE thy neighbour as thyself .</em></strong> <br />
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Contrary to popular religious belief; it is a very dangerous and an unloving practice to use the bible to lead a young man or young woman to live a life of "concerted deception" based on man made religion and personal traditional ideology. Concerted deception (for this subject matter) is when a person decides to live their life and make personal choices for their life that is contrary to their God-given innate sexuality in order to please family and church society and then claim "deliverance". Man made traditional religion and personal ideology has lead many in the body of Christ in to mental and spiritual anguish in trying to change something that God has never asked anyone to change. The body of Christ (church) has inflicted some of the most subversive, anti-Christ behaviors on many of God's same gender loving children and they are responsible for hurting and damaging many of those souls. <br />
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Before you revert back to the old testament verses in <strong><em>Leviticus chapter 20 & chapter 18</em></strong> and the infamous story of Sodom & Gomorrah in <strong><em>Genesis chapter 19</em></strong> as a means of justification for assigning your personal prejudice and bigotry to the sovereign God; I beseech you to actually read those entire chapters word for word in the King James Version of the bible and understand them in their proper context; it was man made religious doctrine (the letter) that tainted the world with divisions, denominations, homophobia, racism, sexism and bunch of other whodo to satisfy their judgmental egos of hierarchy; undermining and disrespecting the sacrifice and accomplishments of Jesus the Christ to persecute others by inflicting pain to others in God's name. <strong><em>2nd Corinthians 3:6 KJV Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. </em></strong><br />
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It would "behoove" the Traditional Christian Church World to self evaluate before looking outside of Christendom for that great deceiver who is to come as the <strong>"Anti-Christ".</strong><br />
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<em><strong>Matthew 24:23 KJV Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. </strong></em><em><strong>24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. </strong></em><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click below this line to make a comment.</strong></span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-30355800194886086892011-04-01T00:01:00.104-04:002011-04-01T10:42:19.743-04:00American Idol's Jacob Lusk: The Oppressor's Bigotry is Losing in all Areas of Life...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AR2HCqScO-k/TZIr-dsETvI/AAAAAAAAAM8/o3C-8LPfCNk/s1600/Jacob+Lusk+2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" r6="true" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-AR2HCqScO-k/TZIr-dsETvI/AAAAAAAAAM8/o3C-8LPfCNk/s400/Jacob+Lusk+2011.jpg" width="326" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> American Idol's Jacob Lusk: The Oppressor's Bigotry is Losing in all Areas of Life...</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">By Samuel Marcus Brown</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Please patiently follow me in this posting as I attempt to make a point concerning the real bigots and oppressors in this life and tie this together with the incomparable 'Jacob Lusk' from this season of the 'American Idol' competition that is showcasing the most formidable contestants in 'American Idol' history. </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">An oppressor is someone or a system that harshly dominates or subject a person or a people to a harsh or cruel form of domination. </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">A bigot is basically an intolerant person who refuses to accept different views.</span></strong><strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">There are many forms and examples of personal, domestic and government wielded oppression that subjects people to harsh and cruel treatment.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">We are now seeing the results of institutionalized oppression unraveling on a global basis; the proof is the unrest of the people in several Middle Eastern nations who've been under the oppression of dictators & tyrants for generations and are now fighting relentlessly for their freedom and the oppressors are losing in most of those countries.</span></strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"></span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Even here in the United States of America which is a fairly young nation that was built on the promises of equality for all people; the land of the free and the home of the brave where everyone has the right to have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; yes we have ours issues as well.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The USA's history of equality & freedom for all people is quite embarrassing based on the initial pretense of the development of this nation. However the oppression and the ills of USA Slavery, the oppression of the Women's Rights Movement, the oppression & segregation of the Civil Rights Movement and the oppression & discrimination of the Gay Rights Movement; we are fortunate to say that the oppressor has completely lost regarding USA Slavery and is all but losing steam pretty badly regarding the rest of those cancerous ills in our society today. </span></strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">The oppressors are everyday people like you and I who participate in forming systems and upholding those systematic institutions, religions and even attitudes that judges, discriminates and represses people often times in the name of tradition or religion; those individuals are called bigots.</span></strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">A very good friend of mine asked for an update on the latest episode of 'American Idol' via text messaging since he missed it the night before; this particular friend is a very closeted, discreet same gender loving person who prides himself on only associating with other people who are like minded which was somewhat my method of operation once upon a time. </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">This particular friend and I are very much into critiquing music and the craft of singers, gifted singers & their voice qualities. I assumed that he and I would be in agreement that 'Jacob Lusk' is the best vocalist among the many other very talented and gifted singers on the show this year.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">It was this part of the conversation that struck me to write this posting:</span></strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">I will call my friend Dante to protect his identity. Knowing that Dante and I would be in agreement when I said that 'Jacob Lusk' was the best singer in the competition; <span style="color: red;">Dante said</span> <em>"Jacob is great, but for some reason I aint feeling him." </em>Foreseeing my friend's mentality about certain people who are different... I stated "I hope that your reason for not feeling Jacob is not because he naturally possesses effeminate qualities?" <span style="color: red;">Dante responded</span> <em>"I hope not either but when he performs he does kinda irk me" </em>so I proceeded to make the point that Jacob's overall singing ability, range and voice quality is superior to the other male contestants; not making light of any of the other gifted singers. (I have other favorites as well) Dante somewhat agreed that Jacob indeed sounds better but then <span style="color: red;">Dante said</span> <em>"Maybe Jacob should try to hold it together so that he can win" (speaking of Jacob abandoning his natural effeminate qualities)</em> I said to Dante that "you have just answered my 1st concern of when I asked you about Jacob's natural effeminate qualities; I knew that the truth would come out!" </span></strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">I made the point that "Jacob's talent and ability is so great that he could win just being himself" </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: red;">Dante said</span> <em>"Yea, a great possibility but let's not forget that this is America and unfortunately they are not ready"</em> then I said "America is changing for the better in many different aspects"... "The bigots are starting to lose in all areas of life... there's a spiritual shift going on in the world right now..." We all must learn to take personal responsibility for our own personal actions and reactions to injustice. </span></strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">I too have been guilty of having a bigoted attitude towards other same gender loving people who were different from me just as Dante expressed the same bigoted attitude toward Jacob Lusks' natural effeminate qualities over his extraordinary gift of song. Those bigoted attitudes are the same attitudes that represses, judges and discriminates which equals oppression.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">Lord please forgive us all and give us all the courage and the fortitude to do better when we know better; to make the world around us a better and more peaceful place for all of our brothers and sisters.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">PLEASE listen to Jacob Lusk sing "God Bless the Child" by clicking on the title of this post. You will then understand the magnitude of this young man's gift. I would like for you to forward this posting to someone very near and dear to you.</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #783f04;">I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click below this line to make a comment.</span></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-79887145351485548142011-02-01T00:01:00.098-05:002011-02-01T00:01:02.857-05:00My Personal Tirade for Black History Month...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W9Ujf3VAxOU/TUSIlnjUAgI/AAAAAAAAAMs/RE_2irO4sjk/s1600/Martin+Luther+King+%2526+Corretta+really+good+picture.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" s5="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_W9Ujf3VAxOU/TUSIlnjUAgI/AAAAAAAAAMs/RE_2irO4sjk/s320/Martin+Luther+King+%2526+Corretta+really+good+picture.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Religious & Non-Religious Prejudice towards Same Gender Loving People </strong></span><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>= Equals Racial Prejudice and Discrimination which undermines the Civil Rights Movement</strong></span><br />
<strong>By Samuel Marcus Brown</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666;">Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.</span></strong><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</span><br />
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How dare I compare the two... Yes I said it and I mean it with every beat of my heart. <br />
I am so sick and tired of the hypocrisy from religious church folk and non-religious black and non-black folk assigning their personal prejudices and their "holy" misguided fundamentalist doctrine, condemnation, customs, traditions and contradictions on homosexuality to the all knowing creator of mankind; the sovereign God.<br />
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Hateful preachers who passionately and arrogantly disseminate the "ignorant" message that one must be set-free and holy ghost delivered from homosexuality which is not God's best choice; maybe it is not the best choice for you if you actually chose your sexuality. You are not preaching the true Gospel of Jesus Christ and your rhetoric is not ordained by God. <br />
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My heart aches for my same gender loving/gay/homosexual/lesbian brothers and sisters who continuously succumb to the spiritual and scriptural enslavement and abuse that's handed down from generation to generation in the religious church establishment and in our society. <br />
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People within that establishment will misuse and abuse the popular statement: "<strong>The bible is certain that we are all born in to sin."</strong> That holds true for everyone, however when the traditional religious establishment disingenuously places an undue & unjust burden on people who were innately/naturally born with same gender attraction; when you demonize us and tell us that we are intrinsically evil and that our basic human natural need for spiritual, mental and physical intimacy and companionship is an abomination and off limits for covenants and marriage; you all have overstepped your scriptural & judgmental boundaries over the sovereign God the creator:<br />
<em><strong>Hebrews 13:4 (KJV) Marriage is honourable in ALL, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.</strong></em> It didn’t say homosexuals will be judged. Sin takes place when a heterosexual or a homosexual takes part in adultery, whoremongering, killing, stealing, lying, anger, idol worship, etc.<br />
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The religious establishment circumvents biblical truth in order to interpret scripture completely out of historical context or alter scripture that is now displayed in the many other versions of the bible to uphold man-made religious customs than can destroy a homosexual person's soul. When reading those isolated verses within their proper context and in all their TRUTH; those 5 or 6 verses condemns bisexuality, gang rape, a group of heterosexual people who abandoned God and their sexuality to worship idol gods of sex etc., and male prostitution; those particular verses do not address or define Same Gender Love or Same Gender Loving people.<br />
Just compare the King James Version bible text to any other bible version that you may have and specifically look at the verses used against homosexual people; you will find a biased homophobic example of audacious wickedness and immorality operating... Jesus Christ, Apostle Paul and the eunuchs of the bible will confirm for you that there is no mandate or commandment to marry the opposite gender and procreate.<br />
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<strong>"If you are practicing homosexual you can't be a Christian" </strong>Let's get one thing straight and be totally clear that it is man made religion that has made that ghastly judgment and ungodly mandate for the homosexual; that statement and position drips from that strain of poisonous venom that has been injected in divisive doctrine which is the deep seated problem with Fundamentalist Christians in the body of Christ (the church) that statement is certainly not true, scriptural or godly. There is nothing sinful about being heterosexual or homosexual; one chooses to sin not their sexuality. The Fundamentalist Christian establishment has been riding roughshod over Same Gender Loving People and SGL Christians long enough.<br />
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It's very disturbing when people reduce their displeasure & prejudice of same gender loving people down to a vilifying stereotypical sexual act that some straight people love and not all same gender loving people participate in... Loving, monogamous, emotional, intimate, nurturing long term relationships are not exclusive to heterosexual people by no stretch of the imagination.<br />
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Comparing the sexuality of 2 consenting adults coming together in the name of love or lust for that matter; comparing that human emotion to murder, bestiality and any other evil that does not include 2 consenting adults to whatever the other evil is... those are egregious, outrageous and disingenuous comparisons.<br />
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I strongly believe and trust in the sovereign God of all creation that has established one of his laws of nature in me because I am fearfully and wonderfully made by him; marvelous are his works. I strongly believe in the sovereign God of all creation just because of that very reason; he is SOVEREIGN he can do exactly what he want to do without considering the ideology of your thoughts and feelings of how you think he should operate and rule all of his creation.<br />
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Anyone can make a prejudiced statement that is popular among traditional religious church folk; however it is the rightly divided word of God (understood in it's proper context) that establishes truth (not mine) not the popular traditions of men.<br />
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Being a part of God's great creation that has been demonized due to religion has taught me to love and embrace him and my fellow man even when I don't understand the great mysteries of his sovereignty.<br />
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The purpose of homosexual people & same gender love is identical to the purpose of heterosexual people & heterosexual love; many heterosexuals procreate and some homosexuals procreate (of course not together) GOD fulfills himself in all humans. <em><strong>Galatians 3:27(KJV) For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.</strong></em><br />
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<strong><em> John 3:16(KJV) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son (Jesus), that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</em></strong><br />
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We undermine the valuable innovative and powerful contributions of our African American forefathers and mothers from history when we use divisive double standards to uphold prejudice and bigotry in the name of religion. To put your foot on the necks of a people that you fail to understand; that's the ultimate<br />
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<strong>Happy Black History Month!</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #666666;">Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love. </span></strong><br />
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Please click on the title of this posting; it will give you more interesting history. <br />
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I would like for you to forward this posting to someone very near and dear to you.<br />
I would love to hear your comments after you have spent some time perusing this site. If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com or just click comment below this line.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-73103926733197757072011-01-06T16:40:00.001-05:002011-01-06T20:17:48.360-05:00True Story of Attempted Suicide: Man made Religion can be a Bully<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/g4HPNg-8pzY?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>A good friend forwarded this young man's video "Del'Antonio James" to me in hopes that I would post it on my blog site in order to help someone who may be contemplating suicide and so that church folk can see what their religious ideology can sometimes produce. </strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>Del'Antonio and I share a background from the same national religious organization called the 'Church of God In Christ' which is synonymous to the anti-homosexual/gay sentiment. When any church's agenda becomes so judgmental & mean spirited and practices alienating and demonizing people by inflicting pain in God's name; it becomes a humanity problem. You nor I had a choice regarding our innate sexuality. The divisive doctrines & religious manipulation of the holy scriptures to cast judgment on a population of God's creation can be considered religious bullying; something is fundamentally wrong.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong> Church folk will tell you that "I <em>love</em> you but I hate your sin" "I'm just telling you what God said about your homosexuality"; Do they really know the truth of what God actually said or did not say? Man made doctrine; divisions; denominations and religious ideology only voices man's personal prejudice that has altered original passages to read differently in other versions of the bible to discriminate which has nothing to do with the sovereign God our father or his son Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit of Truth; I must tell you that that kind of <em>love</em> has never hurt and divided so many people so badly.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong> I applaud this young man for having the courage to triumphantly share this very personal story which could have ended with tragedy in order to help stop the maddening affects in this sometimes cold & judgmental world. He chose to love and encourage his brothers and sisters who may be where he was.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>I truly thank God for him.</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>It's very unfortunate that Del'Antonio became a victim of childhood molestation... (my thoughts are very clear on sexual predators in the previous posting) adults are to stay in their own lane when it comes to sexual relations just as we tell children to stay in a child's place. Thankfully the young man now has a very healthy approach concerning his past and his adult sexual attraction. He nor you and I can say that his sexual attraction would have been any different toward the same gender if that very damning incident had never occurred. I will say that I am the confident, compassionate and sometimes cocky, God fearing man that I am today and I have never experienced any kind of sexual abuse from anyone. I have a very strong personal opinion that sexual abuse does not define your innate sexuality; one may suffer mental dysfunctions due to sexual abuse but that's just my personal opinion. </strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>You may want to view Del'Antonio's blogsite of poetry by clicking on the title of this posting above</em></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong> Same gender loving people are individual emotional human beings with hearts & and souls just as heterosexual people; we are a very diverse people and we exist in every nationality, religion, country and community; we vary from the most conservative to the most liberal, from the most celibate to most promiscuous; from the most masculine to the most effeminate, from the most spiritual to the most heathen just as heterosexual people and we all don't fit into just 1 or 2 stereotypes and no we are not all a part of the same "lifestyle" sexuality is not a lifestyle. </strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-27053350648172839482010-11-05T12:29:00.002-04:002010-11-11T08:31:23.884-05:00Pastor Pedophile (does this graphic story sound familiar?)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W9Ujf3VAxOU/TNQxvI8BE6I/AAAAAAAAAMY/1mw_sdyc058/s1600/innocent_boy_smiling_(braids_in_hair)_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_W9Ujf3VAxOU/TNQxvI8BE6I/AAAAAAAAAMY/1mw_sdyc058/s320/innocent_boy_smiling_(braids_in_hair)_.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><span style="color: #660000;">I decided to revisit and consolidate a 3 part posting from almost 3 years ago for your reading convenience as this story uncannily parallels the allegations against Bishop Long. I asked a friend of mine who has a wonderful and engaging way of telling stories about his life experiences; I asked him to submit one of his stories for the blog site. I was shocked and surprised and then I became quite humbled that he decided to share such a coming of age, traumatic personal story that he's never shared with anyone. We will call my friend Nameless Ned. Hopefully Nameless Ned's story will be helpful to someone as he explained that it was very cathartic for him as he "put pen to paper" to share this truth about his life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">MY FIRST LOVE (Part 1)<br />
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Our pastor had been promoted if you will to bishop and was moving to Philadelphia, so he searched for months and found an attractive preacher that was married with 2 kids. Our church instantly fell in love with this young man showering him with all that he needed to take over for the bishop. He was about 6 feet tall with sandy brown hair and green eyes. he was slim when he first moved to our small town but began to get a little bit of a belly as the years went along, he could thank the church mothers for that.<br />
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He seemed to take a liking to the young people in our church and encouraged us to sing in the choir and take over some of the responsibilities of the older deacons, we liked him for that. one Sunday after church he asked me if I would like to work with him at the radio station. (Lets stop right here and give this dynamic new pastor a name, I'll call him Mr. B) OK, I said sure Mr. B. Mr. B ran a short Christian program from 6:00 am to 9:00 am and I was over the moon that he asked me to work there.<br />
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I emptied trash cans and ran errands while he was on the air and I was happy to do it. He gave me fourteen dollars a week and to me it felt like a hundred. Mr. B was always an affectionate man, but one particular morning on the way home from the station he started to tell me a story and at the same time he was patting my thigh. Like any fourteen year old I could not help but to become aroused by his touch, but I didn't move, instead I moved closer so he would not have to reach so far over. Each week it was the same thing, he would tell me a story and now he was rubbing my thigh. Every other week he would treat me for doing a good job and take me out to eat. He said one day that we will go to a room and have breakfast and just relax. I liked him so much that I never gave it a second thought, I just gestured sure. As the weeks turned into months the rubbing went further and further up my thigh until he got to my member.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Nameless Ned<br />
</span><span style="color: #660000;">When Nameless Ned forwarded Part 2 of "Pastor Pedophile" to be posted my first thoughts were: "I can't post this! Or he is going to have to clean this up, this is a Christian blog site!" Then I came to myself :) Nameless Ned is writing about a real and truthful part of his life and who am I and why would I try to stop or whitewash this reality. Truth and reality is the sole purpose of this blog site. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">As you continue to read Part 2 of "Pastor Pedophile" you will see how Nameless Ned graphically explained how this Pastor(a respected leader in the community) totally took advantage of an innocent young boy who obviously already had an attraction for the same gender. However, it infuriates me anytime that an adult decides to involve themselves sexually with a heterosexual or homosexual minor in order to fulfill their sick, selfish, perverted control-issues that has not been properly dealt with from their childhood. The same thing or something similar probably happened to them as a child and then the madness becomes a cycle into their adulthood. Unfortunately, the innocent victim sometimes think and feel that they are in love, not realizing that a serious crime has been committed against them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">PART 2 (continuation) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I became nervous as we were pulling up to the hotel thinking to myself, what have I got myself into. I was asked to wait in the car while he got the room, so I did.When he came back with the room number Mr. B said I'm hungry lets order room service. The room was nice Mr. B liked to stay is some of the best places in town he said. We sat at a little round table and ate our breakfast when he looked up at me and said, I like your eyes, you have bedroom eyes, I smiled and thanked him thinking to myself, what are bedroom eyes? They must be nice because he likes them. Mr. B layed on the King sized bed and beckoned me with a hand motion to come join him. I laid there next to him as still as a rock, not knowing what to do when all of a sudden he rolled on top of me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">As we laid there he asked me a question, do you like me man? I said sure, but he said but what? I asked him what time it was and he said what time do you have to be home I said 10:00 o'clock, he said its ten now!!! As he began to grind up and down on me.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I wondered to myself what time does he need to be at church he has to preach this morning.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">One thing led to another and before I knew it I was naked. he reached in his bag which he always has with him and brought out a small jar of Vaseline, I whispered what are you going to do with that? He said I'll show you if you trust me, do you trust me? I said yea, then relax.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">He put the Vaseline on his member and slid it between my legs and started pounding, he told me to squeeze my legs tight so that he could feel it which I did, he pumped and pumped until he started sweating over me, then the force became harder and harder and until I felt something wet in between my legs. He said, damn that was good, you alright? until next time. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">PART 3 (The Conclusion) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">In the conclusion of this horrific story of how one of the "probably" worst child predators in the Church of God in Christ' history took full advantage of the trust and esteem that was placed upon him as Pastor, Counselor, Mentor and friend to a faithful congregation, an innocent family and a naive child. It truly makes me want to cry when I think of the fact that this man had a beautiful wife and children that had to be subjected to his debauched activities. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">This story makes you wonder if this pastor stood in his pulpit Sunday after Sunday and preached that traditional religious rhetoric; skewing the interpretation of a few holy scriptures as divisive tools in order to demonize an entire misunderstood population of God's homosexual children in order to deflect the attention from his immoral lifestyle of pedophilia.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">PART 3 (The Conclusion)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Winter slowly turned to spring and spring into summer. I quit working for Mr. B because I was getting older and wanted a real job that paid more than $14 dollars a week. Of course I still saw him from time to time but a lot less than I use to. I was now a young adult as they would say in church and I was beginning to smell my self as the older church ladies would say. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Mr. B still had a special place but I was starting to date girls and the two did not mix. The whole summer almost went by without me seeing him, besides in church and I would almost avoid him except for one Sunday morning. Mr. B asked my mom if I could have dinner with him and his family, of course my mother was thrilled that he had asked and said sure he would love that Rev.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">He picked me up around 3:00pm and we drove and talked as we normally did he asked me how things were going and how I’d been, I told him things were great I have a girl friend now and we have been going out a few times a week. He seemed excited for me and we even talked about her a little while. As we drove up to his sprawling house I noticed there were no other cars in the drive way I thought for sure my mom told me that I would be having dinner with the whole family. He said come on in; I guess this is your first time here huh? I said yep and continued walking in. Mr. B opened the door and to my surprise the first floor was full of young boys, light ones, dark ones, big and tall and all of them were between the ages of 15 and 18. Some of them I knew from school. Mr. B said hello to his guest then he and I walked right pass them, it was at that moment that I realized I was not special and in fact I felt dirty for being part of so many.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">We both walked around the house and down into the basement were he showed me all his suits and jewelry he had enough suits to wear one-a-day for an entire year. The diamond rings and chains were mind blowing! Where did he get all of this stuff? He slowly walked toward me and said “I’ve missed you man, give me a hug.” As he held me I felt his member pushing up against me and as much as I wanted to give in, I gently pushed back and said it was too many people in the house and I couldn’t do anything here. We must have stayed in the basement for at least an hour before coming up and I decided I wanted to go home. I said to my self that's it! I'm not doing-it with him any more he's nasty!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Summer turned to fall and I was going to a new school, a brand new million dollar school that had open class-rooms, I never heard of that concept before but I was eager to see it. My first day in that school was something I will never forget, me and my best friend at the time Joe was trying to find our home room classes, we were wondering around this amazing school when I heard a familiar voice coming from behind one of the partitions, so I peeked around to see who it was ... Oh Hell No, its Mr. B!!!!!! I looked down at my schedule and he and another teacher was going to be my math teacher, all this time I did not know he was a teacher, I guess because I have never been in the ninth grade before. When me and Joe wondered into his class later in the day he acted as though he barely knew me, that was cool because I was so nervous to be close to him in public. Of course I got a good grade in his class, how could I not get a good grade, he watched me and Joe for an hour each day like we were lunch.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">The Church of God in Christ has a conference once a year in different cities, when I was younger I use to love going because it was exciting to go to a different cities and explore what that city had to offer. I was growing up and no longer wanted to go with my parents; this year my mom said that we were going to New Orleans! Yea but you will be praising God the whole time; I won’t get to see any of the city I cried. “You know we always see a little of the city after church baby” my mom said, “besides the pastor and everyone is going,” “No, I'm not going!” I said even stronger this time. Nevertheless, our drive to New Orleans seemed to take forever, driving from PA was a long, long ride but when I looked up to see where we would be staying, it was worth it. The Hyatt Hotel was the best of the best back in the day and I could not believe we were staying there.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Mom and her sister took there shower and got dressed for church, mom allowed me to stay in the room provided I did not go anywhere until they got back. It seemed like 5 minuets after they left the phone rang, “do you know who this is?” I said “yes, of course what's up Rev!” he laughed and said “boy you are getting more mannish by the day, what are you doing?” I said “laying back watching TV until my mom comes back” he said “come to my room.” Little did I know he had already planned to stay close to where we were staying, I said “sure, what room are you in?” I thought to my self now is the time to tell his ass off for being so nasty, I had not forgotten about all of those boys that were at his house and God only knows what he was doing with them.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">As I approached the door I became really nervous, thinking maybe now is not the time to go into all of that, I don't want to make him mad. He opened the door with nothing on but a red robe and said “good evening come on in.” Now the blood in my head is pounding I should not have come hear, I'm not strong enough! The robe came off; “Come here and give me a hug, it’s been so long.” Before I knew it, my clothes were off too and we began to touch one another I couldn't help myself, I like this what ever it is, I like it and I like him.... Mr. B said “I want to show you how to do something that will make a man out of you,” I said “OK what is it” “do you trust me” he said, “sure, what is it?” “I want to enter you,” “you want to do what?” “I want to enter you” as he looked into my eyes, I explained that “we tried that before and I did not like it, it hurt too bad; I can't do that.” “I'm going to make you like it today, man it's what two men do.” I thought to myself OK, I will try it again only for 5 minutes just like before and then I’ll tell him to stop. Mr. B relaxed me like a pro; then he began his assault on my body, when he was through I told him that I was leaving; he said “OK, I will see you tomorrow.” What I had done, was it good or bad? I thought to my self. At first I looked at it like this; he did just make a man out of me, then I thought about all the boys before me and I was ashamed that I had let him take something from me that I never even considered giving.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I didn't know the word “pedophile” back then, but he was one of the worst pedophiles I had ever known or heard of. I pushed this experience into the “sea of forgetfulness” until my dear friend Sam asked me to share a story. For some reason and I don't know why, this experience surfaced. I have never told this story to anyone, not even my lover of 20+ years. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I have no hatred toward Mr. B, God dealt with him a long, long time ago. You see Mr. B died a terrible death. First his wife left him and took the children, then he had a stroke which left him debilitated, then diabetes took one of his legs and finally he went into a coma, then he later died.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">This prayer go's out to anyone who has ever been taken advantage of by someone else “may God give you the strength to toss that memory into the sea of forgetfulness” otherwise it will eat you alive.To my dear friend Sam; thanks for allowing me to share my story.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">God bless,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Now don't this story sound awfully familiar of recent events that has been aired in the media?</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">If you have an experience that you would like to share and you would like to have it posted/featured on this site, email son_of_a_bishop3000@yahoo.com This should be healing and a lot of fun. I would love to hear your comments. Click on comments just below this line.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-835418469077874220.post-89086711639049180232010-09-22T11:18:00.022-04:002010-09-24T20:06:48.104-04:00An Open Letter to Bishop Eddie Long<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W9Ujf3VAxOU/TJ08a85luXI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/WEx9gIqBB5A/s1600/Bishop_Long_Bernice_King.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520635151948036466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 391px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_W9Ujf3VAxOU/TJ08a85luXI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/WEx9gIqBB5A/s400/Bishop_Long_Bernice_King.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"><span style="color:#330033;">Bishop Long,</span> </span></strong></div></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">As my pastor I sincerely pray for your strength and your inner-peace during this most tumultuous time in your personal life and in your ministry. I know that you must be hurting and feel betrayed; yet you and I know that God Specializes in these particular types of circumstances; he will give you the peace that surpasses all understanding of this crisis.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">If there is blameworthiness or virtue to be shared between you and your accusers; so be it for we all have sinned and have been falsely accused at various points in our lives. For it was only our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who walked this earth blameless. He was falsely accused many times over, on a much greater level and magnitude; he was even murdered, falsely accused. </span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">I am a firm believer that goodness, truth and mercy will prevail and that your innocence or your culpability will raise the standard of responsible honesty and authenticity in the body of Christ (the church) and in your personal life.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">Many readers of this posting will be surprised that I for the 1st time have publicly acknowledged you as my pastor in this forum; I have refrained from publicizing that fact since starting this forum in early 2007 due to the respect of our opposing viewpoints on innate sexuality and it's treatment in the holy scriptures.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">Many of my close friends and associates have been troubled for quite some time of the fact that I have been a faithful member of New Birth for many years attending most early Sunday and weekday empowerment services. There is a reason.</span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">Bishop, you have spoken so much truth and life into my heart over the years; you have taught me to study God's word for myself and to become spiritually independent relying on God and God alone; I've fallen in love with Jesus over and over again under your teaching.</span></strong><strong><span style="color:#330033;"> </span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">Your giving nature and your compassionate desire to see your members and the African American Community at large excel spiritually and naturally overrides our opposing viewpoints on sexuality. Furthermore I would never abandon my natural parents (who are ministers) for our differences of opinions on sexuality no more than I would abandon my spiritual parents for those same differences. We all share unconditional love. </span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">I've often said to my close friends that I sincerely feel that you have and could offer a positive and greater revelation on the subject matter of homosexuality in the church-world however, I've felt that you were too concerned and afraid of the masses and your traditional Christian Fundamentalist peers. I've also mentioned to my close friends that I share each blog post that I write for this blog site; I share them with you, your wife and other New Birth staffers via email and I hope and trust that my sharing has had a little something to do with the respect that you have been displaying in recent years to the many same gender loving members in your congregation. </span></strong></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">I'll leave you with these words from a song that my father would ask my mother to sing before approaching the pulpit to preach:</span></strong></div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;"></span></strong><br /> </div><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">Have you any river that seems uncrossable? Have you any mountain that you cannot tunnel through and have you any situation that seems impossible? I tell you that God Specializes and he can do what no other power can do. </span></strong><br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">My prayers and support are with you.</span></strong><br /></div><br /><div><strong><span style="color:#330033;">Samuel Marcus Brown aka Son of a Bishop</span></strong></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00401541588931573016noreply@blogger.com48