Hypocritical? The DNC Shuns a Prayer Meeting for Christians, but Allows One for Muslims
Some are saying that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been discriminating against Christians in favor of Muslims. Michael Brown of Chrarisma News says that he noticed that during the Democratic Convention, there was a DNC sanctioned prayer meeting for Muslims held in Charlotte. However, there was a much larger gathering of Christians that was not sanctioned, right as the DNC announced that it was taking the word “God” out of the party platform.
Brown says that the Charlotte 714 rally gathered Christians from 100 different churches at the Verizon Amphitheater, and the theater confirmed that 9,000 people were in attendance. This attendance was much greater than the gathering at the Muslim rally. One of the sticking points and issues that the DNC appears to have with Christian churches is the pro-life stance adopted by many members of church leadership:
“A few weeks before the DNC, the churches involved in the event made an effort to ‘adopt a delegation,’ offering to send welcome baskets with information about their churches and the city. But the ‘Democrats denied the evangelical group permission because of its pro-life stance.’
According to David Benham, the organizer of Charlotte 714, ‘The mayor’s office texted me and said, ‘We regret to inform but we ask that you not send those letters, and not engage in ‘Adopt a Delegation,’ because your views on women are contrary to the convention.’”
Brown makes some powerful points about the possible hypocrisy of the DNC position. The Christian faith might support a pro-life stance, but many Muslim countries are not strongly supportive of women’s rights and are certainly against same-s*x marriage. Brown also points out that the Coalition of African American Pastors was also shunned by the DNC.
Rev. Williams Owens, leader of the coalition, says that “By taking this grave and unnecessary step of endorsing gay marriage in the party platform, President Obama and the Democratic party are once again putting black Christians at the back of the bus.”
He also said, “Every other constituent of President Obama, every other key part of the party base—gays, Latinos, women—gets a hearing except black voters whose voices and values are ignored. This is more than a shame; it’s an outrage. We are here to warn the Democrats: Do not leave out black Christians, do not take our votes for granted.”
It appears that lines are being drawn in the sand. It’s unclear how this is going to end for the Democratic Party.
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So! It’s politics not church. They have the right to deny whoever they want. Boyce, you stay on one, like your breathe don’t stink when you wake up! They were trying to pass out their framework of thoughts & opinions at a time when losing votes isn’t what’s needed. Think before you post.
Obama has proven he will ignore God, and mistreat his whole family if that is what it takes to get a vote. He is one sick soul. If Blacks vote him in again to continue our downward spiral, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Only a fool would give him a job, when he can’t even mention employment discrimnation as a cause of black unemployment.
I don’t understand how topics like this make the days story when so much talk of coming together was a prominent focus in last night’s DNC. MAKES ME TRULY ONDER WHO TREALLY MANAGES BLOGS LIKE THESE. Is this an honest opinion of facts or misleading information meant to bring anger into play so misguided ppl can make the wrong choice in the election. If you can’t walk into a facility and get an application for bail out money, or if you actually still believe in morals and positive integrity making our country great for everyone and not just the one percent there is a clear choice in who should lead us at this time. Christians spoke throughout the entire DNC and made great points in favor of our President. You can be loyal to your beliefs and still make a respectable logical choice – for yourself AND for your communities..our future is at stake. We must stand up like our predecessors did just to give us what we have now! We must stand now to give our future benefits that we may never see but that will strengthen them for the future just as we are benefittingfrom the good choices made that give us our rights and chances in the present! Remember where you came from….for real!
Proof positive that the emotionalism has taken “some” over. Truth is something hard for some to deal with when you’re on an emotional high. The fact of the matter is, it is a fact. The Pied Piper has wooven quite an elaborate web. When we have drunk the Koolaid, hook, line and sinker…deception can easily take place!
I am fed up of black Christians saying that Obama has betrayed them. HE HAS DONE MORE FOR YOU THAN HIS PRECDECESSORS.
You cannot use religion to steamroll over the essential rights of other human beings! Just becuase black Christians- or any Christians for that matter don’t seem to agree that women can make healthcare decisions for THEMSELVES- not black Christians, does not constitute any reason for banning it. Politics and religion should be kept SEPARATE.
The job of these black pastors is to govern their own flock. They have no right to govern the entire female population of America- what the female population- and secular black female population is included- do with their bodies is THEIR OWN business. This is absolutely ridiculous. I’m willing to bet that most of these pastors are men- so, already they have no right to choose as they do not share the same body as a woman.
As for the Christian and Muslim prayer meetings, I have nothing to say about that. If they allowed a Muslim one, they should allow a Christian one, is all I say.
But Boyce, why are you so keen to focus on the negatives of the DNC? What have you got against President Obama? Do you want a Republican America where black people are ignored entirely? Becuase even in the wake of Obama’s speech, I have not heard you post anything about it. Why always what you do not agree with? You know that Obama is better for America than Romney could ever be.
Obama is the one who doesn’t have to mention those who are struggling just because if he doesn’t, he’ll be attacked for being an out of touch rich man. He empathizes with them because he has been there- and that means that he will do more for poor African Americans than the Republicans. You know this.
But when it comes to essential freedoms- I stand by the notion that a woman’s body belongs to a woman. Not to any politcians or pastor’s religous beliefs. And asserting that being against abortion is a black value is inaccurate, as there are many black women who also relish the ability to make their own healthcare choices without the influencce of men who have no idea of the threat of rape or i****t.
Truly, surely you jest. Obama has done more for gays, lesbians, the homoxesual agenda, ilegal immigrants, abortion, than he has ever done for African America. It’s as if we don’t exist. That being said, it is time that we do for ourselves. Time and time again, folks have proven the Calvary ain’t coming! Seek God folks, He is our source!
Karen surely you jest. Surely you’re more intelligent than that. THERE SHALL BE NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. It was true yesterday and today. As long as blacks are paying high income taxes, sales taxes, social security taxes, licensing fees, and all other forms of govt taxation WE MUST KNOW AND TRAIN OUR CHILDREN TO DEMAND THAT OUR TAX DOLLARS BE SPENT TO HELP OUR COMMUNITIES, AND NOT JUST GO TO OTHERS, SO THAT THEY CAN LIVE AND WE PERISH.
Thank you!!!! I have to agree with the President when he said he’s not the President only for AA people, he’s the President for ALL people. He has so done a great deal for ALL including blacks but then again there are those that would disagree but one thing for certain, two things for sure, he has MY vote!!!!!
Yes Donna we know that the fool believes he’s President of the World. LOL LOL That is his mail problem, and that is why we need to vote in Romney. Romney’s first priority will be american tax payers, not obama’s pathetic global intiative, that calls for foreign aid to everyone but America’s poor.
Very true Jake. Remember, Obama is not a true black American. He was raised in a foreign country until 10 years old and then was with his affluent grandparents in Hawaii. He never knew the hardships of the segregated South. His ancestors never were part of the slave history. His father came from Africa, married in America and then he went back to Africa. His skin may be black in color but his mind is that of a Marxist. He will never be a Herman Cain or an Allen West or a J.C. Watts. We need an honorable person as president, one who will truly represent the black community and not just hand out food stamps. As Clint Eastwood said, “when a man doesn’t do his job it’s time to let him go”.
Deborah,
Where have you been living for the past four years? Can you really say that Obama has done more for black Christians than his predecessors? I’ll answer for you and anyone else who shares your views: No, you cannot say unequivocally that he has because you are not intimately involved with all black Christians or all black Americans, for that matter!!!
Just because you say it, does not make it the law of the land. You are an ardent supporter of the President. I get that. But, guess what? Some of us have not seen the glowing recovery or felt any improvement in our lives. Some of us lost jobs and have been looking for weeks, months or even years. And, the President, has the audacity to ask what is equivalent to a “thirsty, dehydrated man/woman” to hold on when he/she is virtually on his/her last breath!!
I encourage you to look at all of the unprecedented atrocious economic numbers overall and, particularly for black people, under Obama’s watch. The numbers are horrible; from entrenched unemployment higher than every other group to the decimation of black wealth, unprecedented numbers of blacks losing their homes to foreclosure and/or becoming homeless. And, blacks continually quote that tired old mantra (but this is obvious to anyone with basic cognition) that the man is President of the United States, not just President for black folks.
Obama’s job-1 should have been laser focus on job creation and economic stimulus that produce jobs across the board not just bail outs for big banks and corporations that have just stockpiled money and have become increasingly parsimonious about making loans, creating jobs and community investment that help ordinary Americans.
President Obama has failed the black community and the country and the DNC platform of same-s*x marriage, pro-immigration, abortion on demand, removing God from public discourse/anti-religious bias, promulgation of homosexuality via the United Nations for worldwide acceptance and expansion speaks volumes as to what the President’s and the Democrat’s true passions are as they steadily transform us into a welfare nation where well over 50% of us will be on the dole and our prospects for economic autonomy goes up in smoke.
Under his administration, the Democratic Party has now been hijacked by the extreme left of the party and in a country where filthy and fatuous reality shows have flooded America’s airwaves at alarming rates, the country is becoming increasingly more secular every day and “fluid sexuality” to include every s****l configuration you can imagine, has been rubber-stamped by the mainstream media.
If he is voted in for four more years, I cringe at what the moral climate will be in this country with more and more young children at earlier and earlier ages fed a steady diet of same-s*x/bi-s*x/transgender-transexual s*x/polyamorous s*x/zoophilia (b********y) s*x THIS and THAT because he is morally bankrupt and unable to lead on these issues.
So, I believe that black Christians and all Christians are right to feel “BETRAYED” by this President because any president that would not only vote for the most extreme aspects of abortion (up to the birth of the child/with NO RESTRICTIONS)and MILLIONS OF DEATHS OF THESE HUMAN POINTS OF LIGHT and would co-sign on abortion as a prominent piece of his party’s election platform wrapped in the “right to choose” symbolism is an abomination and speaks to how spiritually vacuous he is and others who view the killing of unborn children as simply a choice with no consequences. IT IS MURDER PLAIN AND SIMPLE. NO MORE AND NO LESS.
I don’t know your religion or even if it is important in your life. But religion has a very important place in the lives of many people here in America and all over the world. Often times, it is the thing that keeps us decent, keeps us whole, keeps us from morphing into “spirtually bankrupt cancers” that are currently killing civility and decency in our culture at staggering rates.
RELIGION KEEPS US SANE IN A WORLD GONE MAD!!!
Obama is only a man. He is not God. We do not have to bow down to him and he does not provide the guiding principles for how we should live our lives. Any man that ask you to compromise your religion and your values is a man not worth emulating let alone following, and is a man not worthy of my vote or the Presidency of the United States!!!!!
Jalen, Obama uses your tax dollars to pay people like deborath to spread lies and propaganda for him. Obama’s own mother-in-law cant even go to her southside chicago home because of the level of violence and murder, and yet we’re supposed to believe that he has done something for the rest of us LMAO
The moral climate under Obama’s first administration is so sick, that it is hard to bare. I watch old women run around confused and crazed over their granddaughters dressing like men and acting shamefully. The ones who arent looking like men are stripping and working at the ho house, and then there are the huge numbers on illegal drugs brought here by foreign nationals. And the low down Obama doesn’t even want them identified and searched. He facilitates their destruction of the land.
And the business community is so d**n corrupt you dont even have to hire them to get a bogus bill . The govt agencies that use to protects us are no more.
We say we would have never asked for Jesus to be crucified instead of Barabas ; on the contrary, I beg to differ with this presumptuous claim with some of us. It seems today so many Christians like the same people who rejected Christ, seem to forget God does not need the government to get his word to the people, he commanded His people to spread this gospel to the world!
Jesus took the word to the people. He did not knock at the door of the government crying for governmental laws to be changed so that he could bring Gods truth to people. Do we ” Christians” really expect the world that our God tells us to be separate from, to render to ehat is its and to God what is His, do we really expect this world to to embrace and uphold the word of God. Have we become dependent on the system to provide the law first and then we trust in it before we trust in God to be obedient to the word of God.
Are we so blind to the cares of the world that we trample over the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent God who made heaven and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them?
There is work to be done people. This gospel of the kingdom shall go into all the world and then the end. Amen. There is work to be done!
Dr. Watkins, you are consistent in your hatred of our President. I don’t know why, and I sm not going to waste valuable time trying to figure you out. Obama gets my vote.
You are like the Jews who refused to believe the Furhrer was genociding them, even as they were lined up to go to the ovens.
This happen because the POTUS is a muslim wake up people. That slave mentality is horrible. He s***s on AA and tell them oh well pull your boots straps up and helps everybody else and AA are still up under him like he the most high. Didn’t you people see how bill clinton bow to him.
Clinton was only supporting his party. That is his first priority. Since Obama does any and everything like the Whites who control him, in the party, want him to, Clinton has no reason to oppose him.
Inspite of the way the democratically controlled media portray black america as being loyal to obama, dont believe the hype. They silence the millions who oppose him. They pay negro entertainers and leaders to con the black american community.
Get over yourself and wake the h**l up. Clearly we must be motivated enough to raise from poverty, driven enough to sustain during a storm, and intelligent enough to know the President can only do so d**n much. Black people have always been a crab in the barrel type of people. We don’t support one another if we conjure up any type of feelings of disregard. Get over yourself, and learn new ways of survival please. What happen to not airing your dirty laundry, heck we will do it with a public forum. This is so sad, I don’t know what my children have to look forward to in the future. Black people are a trip and don’t have a clue about supporting and standing behind our own. We get all in our emotions and would rather pick the enemy then root for our own…
Yes, you are a Red GIRL. You are definitely not a WOMAN. When you grow up and understand why you pay taxes for obama to live in a mansion, ride in limos, have 24 hr servants, and makes more than you will make in your entire life time, get back to us then. Until then shut up. YOU ONLY SHOW HOW VERY STUPID U R WHEN U TALK.
Do you really believe that the DNC would do the to Christians? If you believe that then you are a fool. Consider the source who is stating that this happened, Charisma Magazine, a Christian publication who is backed by the religious right who is on a campaign to show that the POTUS isn’t Christian but Muslim. Also, isn’t this the same group of Pastors who has been upset with the POTUS about gay marriage and told their congregation to stay home and not vote. Remember the POTUS said he supports marriage equality he never said that he was going to do an executive order or ect., that decision is on a state to state issue. Wake up people your local congressman and people in office are the ones with direct relation with how you life your life according to how it should be governed and not the POTUS that’s why the Republicans have figured out and why the poor and middle class are screwed right now. Get involved in your local politics because it’ll save your life and your children.
OBAMA SAYS, WHEN EACH STATE VOTES TO PUT YOUR BLACK AZZ BACK INTO SLAVERY, THE FEDERAL GOVT WONT LIFT A FINGER . THE STATES HAVEN’T HAD THIS MUCH POWER IN 50 YEARS AND THEY LOVE THEM SOME OBAMA. HE DOESN’T NEED YOUR BLACK AZZ VOTE.
Who cares they are one in the same christian or muslin, they are crooks. and so are the politicians.
A real man fights his enemy and lets him know who is in control. A weak coward works hard to try and embrace him. But in the end the coward dies a thousand deaths, and the brave man but one. Heaven help us when the american haters gain enough power, position and control, to do the takeover and take their revenge.
Who’s “they”?
It’s funny how AA feel that the president hasn’t done anything for them
Healthcare
Financial reform
Student loan reform
Lower taxes
You mean to tell me that doesn’t affect you?
You have no right go deny anybody the right to the lifestyle they choose
Every black Christian do not share that bigoted mindset
They were right to not allow the church propaganda
Why are you mad?
And no Obama is not a Muslim why would he be?
He met his father once
Was raised by his mother and grandparents
They were Muslims?
The attack on the president is ridiculous
Thanks for adopting the supremacist attitude of your oppressors
Get a clue people
Nah, you’re missing the point. The President has specifically reached out to Gays, Jews, Women and Hispanics. He has not SPECIFICALLY reached out to blacks at the same level. There is indeed a discrepancy, and part of it is our own fault because we put all our eggs in one political basket to the point where the Dems have no incentive to think our vote will go elsewhere.
People that have negative opinions of President Obama on Religion an what he is doing for the Black people of this Nation. Please remember that he is the President of the United States an all of its inhabitants not just black people alone!
“Every other constituent of President Obama, every other key part of the party base—gays, Latinos, women—gets a hearing except black voters whose voices and values are ignored. This is more than a shame; it’s an outrage. We are here to warn the Democrats: Do not leave out black Christians, do not take our votes for granted.”
True indeed. Our community has not learned how to truly wield political power because we continue to put all of our eggs in one basket. And of course, both parties don’t care about black churches or black people in general: one plays lip service and the other ignores.
You are oh so right. This is all about power and people wanting to keep that power.
With respect to the actual article, it is reported that “… the DNC announced that it was taking the word “God” out of the party platform.”
While I do not agree with President Obama’s position concerning same-s*x marriage, contrary to the reported claim, listen to President Obama’s speech towards the end as he refers to “Providence.” Providence is defined as “divine guidance or care; God conceived as the power sustaining and guiding human destiny.” Just thought I would point that out for those who missed that detail.
You are very right. They care about power and have their own agenda, They all lie to all of us. They tell us want we want to hear to get elected. Always have, always will. An honest person would never get elected in this country. I am a life long Democrat and I am dismayed that my party would exclude churches from their convention. Don’t any of those democrats attend a church? If all of you folks really thought into this, it should/would scare the s**t out of you.