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He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior." (CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)


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(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).

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"A nutty lesbian blogger."
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Pro-LGBT black clergy ad counters misinformation on hate crimes legislation

by: Pam Spaulding

Mon Jul 16, 2007 at 18:00:00 PM EDT


In response to the ads run by anti-gay black ministers fronted by Bishop Harry Jackson of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, which paid for spots in Roll Call USA Today spreading disinformation about the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a group of pro-LGBT pastors have responded in kind.

In a new ad appearing in USA Today (PDF), the National Black Justice Coalition, Human Rights Campaign and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, black religious leaders counter the claim of the puppets of the white evangelical bigots that the passage of the measure would muzzle pastors like Jackson from spouting homophobic sermons from the pulpit.

Bishop Harry Jackson believes passage will result in the imprisonment of  pastors for quoting Leviticus; gays are simply taking over...

[G]ay activists around the country are getting nervous that they are about to experience an embarrassing political setback. Instead of amending the hate crimes legislation that protects churches in a substantive way, they are simply crying out in a louder, more threatening manner. Gay advocates are not looking for fairness; they are looking for an upper hand.
-- Jackson, in a Town Hall column.
Jim Burroway aptly notes this about the religious anti-gay voices at his pad:
We saw them completely make up bogus hate crime statistics out of thin air to try to prove that gays and lesbians aren?t hate crime victims. But they won?t tell you that sexual orientation is the third most common motivation for hate crimes, running a virtual tie with religious bias. Further, the Justice Department's National Crime Victim Survey (NCVS) shows that 58% of hate crimes based on sexual orientation go unreported.

...We saw them falsely claim that the legislation would "punish some crimes more severely against gay people than they would against any other person," even though it would cover everyone -- gay or straight -- regardless of sexual orientation. Otherwise, the FBI?s own hate crime statistics would not have bothered to count 935 anti-White, 58 anti-Protestant, or 23 anti-heterosexual hate crime incidents in 2005.

See the ad from the bigots after the jump.
Pam Spaulding :: Pro-LGBT black clergy ad counters misinformation on hate crimes legislation
Even though a recent Gallup poll showed that 68% of Americans support adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the existing hate crimes laws, this is the kind of misinformation that Harry Jackson and his homobigot friends in the pulpit dished out in their ad.

Visit HRC's Clergy Against Hate site.

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Thank you, Bishop Jackson
I am happy to see a religious organization standing up to the false witness borne by those on the Right.  Anyone reading the matthew Shephard Act could understand that speech is not at issue here, but too many Americans only know what talking heads tell them. 

Good for them!

Ex-Gay Watch posted an article on him (Carlton Pearson) a couple of weeks ago with a link to his appearance on CNN. They also note:

The one-time fundamentalist now preaches that God accepts everyone - including gays and lesbians - a message that has cost him the best part of his congregation and his career.


I wouldn't call it the "best" part of his congregation...
You know, I can't help but think that this is rather a waste of money. For one thing, I can't imagine the people who would care about a pastor's right to spew hate to remotely want to protect LGBT people anyway. Maybe I'm wrong, let's hope so.

<3 Sam

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it won't matter to haters, but
it matters to me to know that some clergy refuse to be complicit with bigots by their silence.  and there are lots of sheeple out there who haven't given much thought to anything lgbt who are waiting to be swayed either way.

Lurleen on Twitter

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"I can't help but think that this is rather a waste of money...Maybe I'm wrong, let's hope so.
Lurleen said:
?and there are lots of sheeple out there who haven't given much thought to anything lgbt who are waiting to be swayed either way.?
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To take that one step further. I think that a lot of those religious followers secretly want to support LGBT people, but don?t for fear of being ostracized by their peers (fellow church followers, ie peer pressure).

They are in the closet so-to-speak because they think they don?t know anyone else who feels the way they do. So to see other members of the religious community being open and honest about this?even if only in ad form?empowers them to at least acknowledge their feelings of equality.

I?m not even trying to be ?gay? with the analogy, it just came out that way?it fits, but it?s important because it?s true. For many religious followers there is no support-infrastructure for even DISCUSSION of dissent or disagreement, whatever the issue.

I think ads like these will have their most profound impact with people like them.

Pearson and kind lend religious legitimacy to the cause. Point being, it's not "religious," it's legitimate FIRST.


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Great Counter Ad
This is a great counter ad and the ministers should be applauded for taking a stand against religious bigotry. I know Bishop Pearson has come under attack from Pentecostal groups for his inclusive ministy...and Michael Eric Dyson is just awesome!

this is wonderful
thank you to those speaking out and doing this great work!

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Thank You National Black Justice Coalition,
Nice to see we still have some Black straight allies.

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