Comments on: Claiming Coretta

By: Jack Yan

Jack Yan — Sun, 14 May 2006 03:06:34 +0000

I agree, Maurice. Christ never intended His example to be used for hate—and Terrance is right to remind us of Mrs King’s own ministry. I have quoted Dr King on a number of occasions in the ﬁeld of marketing, of all things—what he preached was as valuable then as it is now. Coretta Scott King’s words, too, I believe, will last well beyond any efforts to twist her record by the likes of Bishop Long.

By: k. maurice jones

k. maurice jones — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:43:31 +0000

WHAT GIVES REV. B KING AND BISHOP LONG THE RIGHT TO WITHDRAW THE HAND OF FELLOWSHIP. JC, THE ULTIMATE REOVLUTIONARY MISSIONARY PREACHED A UNIVERSAL GLSPEL OF INCLUSION. “WHOSOEVER WILL …” HATARATION WAS NOT A PART OF THE EQUATION. I SUGGEST THAT SUCH BLIND LEADERS WHO ARE BEHAVING LIKE DEMENTED SWINE DO THE “JESUS WALK.” PRAISE GOD FOR KANYE WEST. “THE PEOPLE SHALL PERISH FOR LACK OF KNWOLEDGE.” I SAY, IGNORANCE KILLS. MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO SAY: yOU GOING OUT THE WORLD ASS BACKWARDS!” ULTIMATELY, WHAT OWULD JESUS DO? LIKE AREHTA SAY: “yOU BETTER THINK!”

By: k. maurice jones

k. maurice jones — Thu, 11 May 2006 20:39:12 +0000

THIS TWO-FACED TWISTING OF THE UNIVERSAL LOVE OF CHRIST IS NOTHING SHORT OF GOING OUT THE WORLD ASS BACKWARDS. WHEN CHRIST PREACHED THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, THE DECREE WAS “WHOSOEVER WILL…” WHAT GIVES REV. B KING AND BISHOP EDDIE LONG THE SELF-APPOINTED DIVINE RIGHT TO ENCOURAGE SUCH SPIRITUAL HATIN’? THE PEOPLE WILL PERISH BECAUSE OF IGNORANCE. WAS FOR “THE CHILDREN”, IF WE EVER NEEDED THE LORD, SHO DO NEED HIM/HER NOW RIGHT NOW! WHAT WOULD JESUS SAY/DO? WOULD HE GET IN THE LINE WITH BUJU AND SHABBA RANKS? I RECOMMEND WE CHRISTIAN CHECK OURSELVES, AND START DOING THE JESUS WALK!

By: eizarc

eizarc — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:26:33 +0000

Stop the maddness, ya’ll know doing gay $&#! ain’t right. It is basic as learning how to walk. Stop
making excuses, like I was born this way. Dare to be diffrent. Not gay!

By: Erasmus

Erasmus — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:46:24 +0000

The amount of homophobia that exists in the African-American Community is appalling and the biblical literalism frightening. At the risk of offending people who are biblical literalists, Adam and Eve are metaphorical people, not real people. And, just to tickle your brain, does the back cover on the Bible mean that God has ceased to reveal himself to humanity in new and different ways? Finally, did God not reserve his harshest words for those false shepherds who deceived the people and went along with the status-quo in order to maximize their personal gain? What is whispered now in secret will one day be shouted from the rooftops and what a shaking of the foundations that will be.

By: Ms_07

Ms_07 — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:58:57 +0000

I am so sick of everyone, yes even in the Body of Christ bashing Bishop Long. What Bishop Long stands for can be backed up by scripture. So all of you who have something to say against Bishop Long, take it up with God, because that’s really who you have the problem with. All of this homosexuality and lesbianism mess is all sexual immorality. God created woman for man, not man for man and woman for woman.
1 Chronicles 16:22

22 “Do not touch my anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm.”

By: Arthur

Arthur — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:41:19 +0000

As an African American, the biggest problem I have with this whole “gay rights” issue is how homosexuals and those sympothetic to their cause have effectively fooled people into thinking that they deserve some kind of extra or special “rights.” For the most part, there are already laws on the books against everything they experience.

I have always been offended by this ridiculous comparison of “gay rights” with the civil rights movement. People think that just because the word “rights” appears in both, that this means they are speaking of the same thing. They are not.

I also disdain all this crazy speculation about whether or not the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King would have supported these “gay rights.” Well, if anyone can show me from his writings (which I have a nice size collection of), where Dr. King thought homosexuality was fine or somehow a “right,” then you have a sound basis for your speculation. Otherwise, you need to stop speculating on what Dr. King would have done.

And we can’t think that just because Coretta (God rest her soul) spoke up for “equality” for gays and lesbians that this means Dr. King would have followed suite. This does not follow (in logic we call that a non sequitur), since a man’s wife does not always follow her husband’s theology (yes, I said theology, since Dr. King was a BAPTIST minister, just like Bishop Long).

And I am very proud of Dr. King’s daughter, Bernice, for staying true to her father’s Biblical legacy by standing up for Biblical marriage.

You can try all you want to turn sin into some form of “rights,” but clear thinking and Biblically minded people will not fall for such sophistry. In the end, who cares what Coretta thought or what Dr. King would have thought. They didn’t create an ameoba. It is what the Creator thinks that we need to be concerned about, and He did NOT make anyone “gay,” and any such “marriage” of such people is a distortion of what marriage is all about according to the Designer of the instituion. It is an insult of the highest order.

By: ahatcher

ahatcher — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:00:46 +0000

There are things about homosexuality that are quite mysterious and unfathomable to one such as myself. I dare say that most homosextuals understand fully their predicament. I think the ancients had a great deal of insight into the nature of homosextuality which is why it was rejected in the bible. Even though it was rejected the individual was not- reject the sin not the sinner. Or than this bit of knowledge I have not other wisdom to add.

By: Terrance

Terrance — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:27:51 +0000

Wrong, Jenn. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Long isn't merely dealing with the "biblical aspect of homosexuality." He came out of the pulpit and marched against equality. He took a stand in favor of discrimination.

Did you even read the post you were responding to? I won' t "bash" Long if he won't bash my family by advocating side of inequality and discrimination against my family. All I want is for my family to have the same rights and protections as any other family, and long is standing against that. In my book that makes him no better than the Klan. Remember, they claim to stand on the bible too.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:54:27 +0000

Even though Coretta spoke of equal rights for everyone regardless of sexual orientation – she never said if she agreed that homesexuality was right. She only spoke of the political aspect of human rights – NOT THE BIBLICAL! Bishop Long is dealing with the BIBLICAL ASPECT of homosexuality. True we all fall short of the glory of God and the Bible speaks of that. Don’t bash Bishop for speaking the word of God.