Black Pastors Lay Down Gauntlet to Obama Over Same-Sex Marriage

Black Pastors Lay Down Gauntlet to Obama Over Same-Sex Marriage

Coalition Calls on Black Christians to Withhold Support Until President Grants Meeting

The Coalition of African American Pastors demanded on Monday that President Obama meet with the group to address his stance on same-sex marriage. So far, the White House has refused to acknowledge the group's request but leaders say they plan to "turn up the heat" by asking black Christians to sit on the sidelines for the time being.

THE CHRISTIAN POST

TONY DIGIROLAMO- MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. THESE BLACK PASTORS ARE PATRIOTS COMING DOWN FROM THEIR PULPITS AND THEY HAVE SPOKEN AND TAKEN A STAND FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEY ARE TURNING AMERICA BACK TO THE FOUNDERS... AND THE CREATORS INTENT FOR THE NATION.

"We can't compete with the Hollywood folks who are raising the big bucks for the president," (Rev. Bill) Owens said. "But it was black folks who rallied around him in 2008 and for him to ignore our request with a group of clergy who represents tens of thousands of black Christians of many denominations is an insult."

This is what it means to be a Patriot! These Black pastors are heros! Honor them! Honor them!

It will be their vote that will save this country! Yes honor them! Stand with them!

God bless them, God bless America.

Gay Bishop Commends LGBT Presbyterians for 'Confusing' the Church on Homosexuality

Gay Bishop Commends LGBT Presbyterians for 'Confusing' the Church on Homosexuality

The first openly gay bishop in The Episcopal Church recently praised pro-gay Presbyterians for creating "enormous confusion" and what he called "holy chaos" in their denomination over homosexuality.

"It was not that many years ago when our churches, yours and mine and most others, were absolutely certain what God thought of us ... and because of your courageous work, there are a lot of confused people out there and that is a huge step forward," Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire said Saturday during an event sponsored by More Light Presbyterians – a pro-LGBT group.

THE CHRISTIAN POST

TONY DIGIROLAMO- ENORMOUS, TWISTED, HERETIC, CONFUSION INDEED!

They Preached Liberty/The passion of American ministers for political freedom in 1776 reflected their belief in religious toleration.

They Preached Liberty/The passion of American ministers for political freedom in 1776 reflected their belief in religious toleration.

On Sunday morning, Jan. 21, 1776, at a church in Woodstock, Va., Rev. Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg brought his sermon to a dramatic and unexpected crescendo. His text was taken from the book of Ecclesiastes. "The Bible tells us 'there is a time for all things,' and there is a time to preach and a time to pray," said Muhlenberg. "But the time for me to preach has passed away; and there is a time to fight, and that time has now come."

Stepping down from the pulpit, the minister took off his clerical robes to reveal the uniform of a colonel in the 8th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Army. He had been personally recruited by George Washington. Outside the church door, drums sounded as men kissed their wives goodbye and strode down the aisle to enlist. In less than an hour, 162 men from Muhlenberg's congregation joined the patriot cause.

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TONY DIGIROLAMO- THE MOVIE 'THE PATRIOT' DEPICTS THAT MOMENT IN THE CHURCH SO WELL.

We live in a great country but here again our religious freedom is being yanked out of our arms and destroyed by a man who acts like a king.

Jesus is Lord and the government is still upon his shoulders! That's how it began and will continue.

York: For conservatives, the question: Who is John Roberts?

York: For conservatives, the question: Who is John Roberts?

In the wake of Chief Justice John Roberts' stunning about-face in the Obamacare case, conservatives who follow judicial issues are asking themselves: Did we ever really know Roberts? Did we get him wrong?

Those nagging questions have led Republicans to think back to Roberts' rise through the Washington legal world from White House lawyer to the nation's highest court.

THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER

TONY DIGIROLAMO- IF ROBERTS WAS INTIMIDATED BY THE POTUS WHILE THE JUSTICES WERE DELIBERATING ON OBAMACARE THAT IS VERY STRANGE FOR THE SUPREME COURT INDEED.

Byron York tells us, "Roberts had solid Republican credentials. He served in both the Reagan White House counsel's office and, later, in the Justice Department under President George H.W. Bush."

With that resume ... Who'd a thunk it?

PCUSA to Vote on Gay Clergy, Same-Sex Marriage

PCUSA to Vote on Gay Clergy, Same-Sex Marriage

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will vote on two highly contentious issues at its General Assembly beginning Saturday with some presbyteries proposing reversal of the right to ordain openly gay and lesbian clergy and some seeking a change to the definition marriage.

Some presbyteries are calling for restoration of the 1996 standard that required "fidelity in the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman or chastity in singleness" for all clergy, according to PC(USA), which will have it biennial assembly from June 30-July 7 in Pittsburgh, Pa.

THE CHRISTIAN POST

TONY DIGIROLAMO- THE CONFUSION ROLLS ON AS THESE BLINDGUIDES CONTINUE TO PREACH HERESY.

The young people growing up in these churches faced with who they are in Christ as male or female now have this bizare notion that they might be neither.

This is not your Norman Rockwell church in Stockbridge Mass!

WALKING TO CHURCH BY NORMAN ROCKWELL

(Worth a look see)

Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay."

Anderson Cooper: "The Fact Is, I'm Gay."

Last week, Entertainment Weekly ran a story on an emerging trend: gay people in public life who come out in a much more restrained and matter-of-fact way than in the past. In many ways, it's a great development: we're evolved enough not to be gob-smacked when we find out someone's gay. But it does matter nonetheless, it seems to me, that this is on the record. We still have pastors calling for the death of gay people, bullying incidents and suicides among gay kids, and one major political party dedicated to ending the basic civil right to marry the person you love. So these "non-events" are still also events of a kind; and they matter. The visibility of gay people is one of the core means for our equality.

FROM THE LEFT, THE DAILY BEAST

TONY DIGIROLAMO- AND OUR RIGHTS AS CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE THAT HOMOSEXUALITY IS STILL AN ABOMINATION IS NOW CONSIDERED HATE SPEECH.

Anderson Cooper speaks of God's gift of love, "In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God’s greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life."

I'm sorry that our country is struggling to hold on to God's precepts and standards for behavior and it is apparent that Anderson is ignorant of Gods gift of love and direction for life.

Roberts switched views to uphold health care law

Roberts switched views to uphold health care law

Chief Justice John Roberts initially sided with the Supreme Court's four conservative justices to strike down the heart of President Obama's health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, but later changed his position and formed an alliance with liberals to uphold the bulk of the law, according to two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations.

Roberts then withstood a month-long, desperate campaign to bring him back to his original position, the sources said. Ironically, Justice Anthony Kennedy - believed by many conservatives to be the justice most likely to defect and vote for the law - led the effort to try to bring Roberts back to the fold.

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