Why the Self-righteous are dangerous...

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Outing campaign roils D.C. black Baptist church
More than 100 members named as gay in e-mails to pastor, congregation
By LOU CHIBBARO JR. | Jan 30, 2:14 PM

One of Washington’s largest black Baptist churches was rocked by a female member of its choir who sent separate e-mail messages to the pastor in December and January outing more than 100 church members as gay, mostly male choir members.

The outings added to the inner turmoil experienced by a large number of gays who attend services at the 7,000-member Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, located on Rhode Island Ave., N.E., according to a gay former member who provided copies of the e-mails to the Blade.

“I will be leaving the choir at the top of the year because 80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than I do,” the church choir member said in one of her e-mails to Bishop Alfred Owens Jr., the church pastor.

The e-mail, sent in December, identifies about 45 fellow church members as gay. She sent a second e-mail to Owens on Jan. 2 identifying another 62 church members as gay.

“The following people I am asking you to monitor very closely and my prayer is that you will sit them down from their ministries,” she told Owens in the December e-mail. “Because they are ushering in the presence of sin, lies, a spirit of homosexuality and sexual spirits.”

She sent a copy of her e-mails to a Yahoo list group that goes to more than 300 church members, the gay former church member said.

The gay former church member redacted all of the names from the copies of the e-mails he sent to the Blade, including the name of the choir member who orchestrated the outings.

Officials with the National Black Justice Coalition, a Washington-based group that advocates for African-American gays, and the D.C. Coalition of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Men & Women, said they have seen or spoken with people who have seen un-redacted copies of the e-mails.

“There’s no doubt that these e-mails included all those names and they were read by a lot of people,” said Brian Watson, president of the D.C. Coalition.
Owens and Greater Mount Calvary Associate Pastor T. Cedric Brown did not return calls seeking comment by press time.

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So now she has totally and completely smashed people's lives to smithereens with her self-righteous, holy bullying. Is this kind of bullshit REALLY what Jesus would do? Is this lowly, intolerant dreg of humanity really expecting to go to heaven after causing this much pain and suffering to her victims? Is bringing down the wrath of the homophobia in that particular church (the pastor is KNOWN for being a particularly hateful git when it comes to this topic) righteous? Shame on those black churches who defile the legacy of civil rights and tolerance by so callously and unrighteously treating their gay members! Wasn't it not too long ago that the Bible was being used to oppress based on skin colour? And now they do the same thing to people based on sexual orientation? Immoral. Unrighteous. Downright evil. That's the only way to describe this kind of behaviour.

What I will say is this. African-American LGBT's and allies can no longer afford to sit down in openly homophobic churches. We'll are going to have to stand up, group together, and fight, either from the inside of the homophobic churches, or from the outside in the many and growing tolerant and progressive churches and organizations. But no more time and money can be wasted on those who oppress in the name of god. No more. To paraphrase Bob Marley, we are all going to have to get up and stand up for the rights of our brothers and sisters.

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[enchanted-jae.livejournal.com]

I would imagine this woman has opened herself up to an entire slew of legal repercussions. Although it's possible she was correct in her assumption that some of the named people are gay, it's also equally possible that many of them are not.

...I can't quite wrap my mind around the rest of it. It's just too...anti-Christian, isn't it?

[unusualmusic.livejournal.com]

Absolutely anti-Christian, or at least the example set by Jesus, cause Paul was most def. an intolerant asshole as well. The problem is that entire church, from pastor downward, has maintained a hateful and intolerant stance towards homosexuals. So I'm not surprised at all that she did it. I am just downright INCENSED at the bullshit. And I wish to god that the homosexuals in that church get a spine and fight back, cause god knows that it is not going stop unless it is challenged and challenged strongly. Hopefully this incident is used as a catalyst for a fullscale revolution.