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“I refuse to limit my God, to lock God into my cultural understandings because culture is fickle.
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“And culture is often wrong. Culture was wrong about slavery. Culture was wrong about women. Culture was wrong about Africans and Indians, and culture was wrong about Christ,” he said. “I have been the pariah among many of my clergy colleagues who somehow see me as defective or not quite saved because I won’t join them in their homophobic gay bashing and misquoting of scripture.”

-Rev Wright


From the Washington Blade

I would like many believers much better if they understood this and refrained from trying so hard to impose their morality on us all.


EDIT: Forgot to credit. Via:miaryann 

Comments

[dustdaughter.livejournal.com]

The more I read about Wright, the more I respect him. I wish Obama did not go around painting him as a guy stuck in the past. His ideas seem to be quite modern and progressive. I almost want to go to his church and I walked out on my last one for bashing gays from the pulpit.

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

I wish Obama did not go around painting him as a guy stuck in the past. His ideas seem to be quite modern and progressive.

I agree so much with this.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

Before, I had no words to describe what I have always felt.

And now I do.