Washington Post’s faith profile embraces anti-gay, race-baiting Harry Jackson with TLC [video]
”It’s not a mission of hate. It’s a mission to protect godly boundaries…. Some of the smartest people I knew in college were gay…. I don’t know of anybody black who says, ‘I hate gay people.’ We’re more accepting generally. But you overlap that — homosexuality and gay marriage — with broken families, and we don’t know how to put it back together…. I believe that the Bible teaches that same-sex marriage is an oxymoron. If you redefine marriage, you have to redefine family. You’d have to redefine parenting. I’m looking at the extinction of marriage. And black culture is in a free fall…. In my church we have a gang-prevention group. We’re concerned with all those things — social ills. But the reason the gay marriage issue is so polarizing is that, from a theological construct, it is clear that gay marriage shouldn’t be the order of the day.”
Just a few of the many unchallenged quotes provided by Harry Jackson, a preacher from the Maryland-based Hope Christian Church, to the Washington Post faith writer Wil Haygood. (Washington Post)
In April Jackson held a public protest against gay marriage in DC where many of the speakers called gay people ”immoral,” disgusting, and ”perverted.” They accused gays of destroying families and trying to ride on top of the black community’s civil rights struggle. Then they all gathered around the Council’s building and waved their hands and chanted, “No Same Sex Marriage!” In October he testified that the City Council must allow the District’s residents to vote on same-sex marriages, and lectured the Council on the historic struggle for voting rights in DC. Yet, when Councilman David Catania asked Jackson how many times he himself had voted in the District, Jackson had to admit that he has never voted, because he has never been a District resident until very recently.
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