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6 Arguments Some Black Christians Use to Justify Discrimination Against Homosexuals

Can anti-gay Christians really love gays when they support discrimination against gays? That's the question which has piqued my curiosity for years the quality of question that led me years ago to investigate the claims of the occult. Is love so fickle that it's at odds with reality? Is bigotry so blind that she's the daughter of love?

My first impulse says "Yes, one can discriminate, yet still love the one against whom one discriminates." But now the debate over the Hate Crimes Amendment of 2007 adds another layer of scrutiny.

A coalition of conservative black pastors, led by Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Center in Lanham, Maryland, have lobbied Congress to vote against the Hate Crimes Amendment, which extends special rights of protection to "homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals." The pastors fear the amendment would prevent them from preaching against homosexuality, making such preaching a crime and anti-homosexuals the object of lawsuits.

Their argument is surprisingly similar to those of another era to white satanic Christian fundamentalist racists and segregationists and bigots of the 20th century, such as the Bob Jones klan that oversees Bob Jones University, the young Billy Graham, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Ku Klux Klan, which argued that hate crime legislation to protect blacks, to let blacks vote, to let blacks go to school with whites, wed whites and snore with whites would encroach on free speech and open white supremacists up to criminal charges and let them be jailed and sued for calling blacks niggas.

How the tables have turned! The black conservative now is as much a bigot as the white conservative. Who would have thought that slaves, after gaining their freedom forcefully, would revert to being slaves willingly!

Ironically, though, some sincere black Christians have been duped into endorsing the black pastors' criticism of the Hate Crimes Amendment of 2007. As a result I have gleaned at least six arguments some black Christians employ to justify discrimination against gays and lesbians. I will present the arguments from the viewpoint of these blacks, so you can see the scorn that underlies their anti-homosexual tone of voice their lack of love and biblical understanding.

First, discrimination is a term coined by cowards to make the immoral seem moral. Hence, homosexuality is immoral, but keeping homosexuals from becoming captains

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