09-17-2012, 05:41 AM
I've known 3 blacks (and only counting heterosexuals, I can add more otherwise) who get really angry over this double standard, too. Perhaps it's telling that 2 are agnostic and one is a Taoist rather than another Christian.
Btw, all 3 have experienced persecution from the black community (and all 3 called "oreos" at one time or another, and the memory is so bitter to one that he can't even look at actual oreo cookies, though another has taken to calling herself an oreo in defiance but she just means she's gonna be her own person instead of letting them bully her into conformity as opposed to "trying to be white") as well as other racial groups for being too different.
Interesting enough, coming from a family of East Texas rednecks I can relate all too well as the reasons for my being shunned and sometimes treated with contempt by all too many rednecks (some related to me) in my family's hometown are all too similar (if cosmetically different).
That said, the NAACP has braved the scorn of black clergymen and officially come out on our side, and IIRC they (the bureaucracy at least) also opposed Prop 8 in California as well (even if many blacks, some I'm sure NAACP members, said they voted for both Obama and Prop 8 citing their Christian beliefs, just like every other race that said why they voted for Prop 8, god damn Christianity).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12...68476.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19...30029.html
Oh, btw, I consider Mormons to be another type of Christian (just to prevent any confusion since obviously many Christians do not).
Oh, and just for humor (I know I've shared this before):
Btw, all 3 have experienced persecution from the black community (and all 3 called "oreos" at one time or another, and the memory is so bitter to one that he can't even look at actual oreo cookies, though another has taken to calling herself an oreo in defiance but she just means she's gonna be her own person instead of letting them bully her into conformity as opposed to "trying to be white") as well as other racial groups for being too different.
Interesting enough, coming from a family of East Texas rednecks I can relate all too well as the reasons for my being shunned and sometimes treated with contempt by all too many rednecks (some related to me) in my family's hometown are all too similar (if cosmetically different).
That said, the NAACP has braved the scorn of black clergymen and officially come out on our side, and IIRC they (the bureaucracy at least) also opposed Prop 8 in California as well (even if many blacks, some I'm sure NAACP members, said they voted for both Obama and Prop 8 citing their Christian beliefs, just like every other race that said why they voted for Prop 8, god damn Christianity).
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12...68476.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/19...30029.html
Oh, btw, I consider Mormons to be another type of Christian (just to prevent any confusion since obviously many Christians do not).
Oh, and just for humor (I know I've shared this before):
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