Here's a crazy idea. You may have heard that black people in the United States have historically been oppressed. (It's true -- I'm not making this up.) Now, while I realize that of course 95% of the credit in abolishing Jim Crow must of course go to secular Marxists, who are at the spearpoint of every social change, some small middling role was played by the churches. (You might think that "Let My People Go" is a secular song with all its references to such famous atheists as Moses and Pharoah, but really, believe it or not, it's Christian. I swear!) Sometimes, black churches would get firebombed and stuff. There was even this religious guy named Martin Luther King, who was named after some other religious guy, who did almost as much for the Civil Rights Movement as the Socialist Worker's Party. His picture is on black people's walls and stuff, even though he wasn't a gay-marriage activist. For real! So just maybe there might be the tiniest, littlest
possibility that the church is almost -- I repeat, ALMOST -- as respected among black people as is Abbie Hoffman.
It's hard to believe, I know. We live in a crazy, crazy world!
--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Philip Pilkington <pilkingtonphil at gmail.com> wrote:
A while ago I posted
> claiming that this *very
> particular* strain of homophobia could probably be traced
> to to both black
> people's lower socio-economic and their attempt to form
> an identity out of
> the wreckage of some 300 years of enslavement, be it
> physical or moral.
>