PART TWO--Dupes, Opportunists and Allies of the Power Elite: The hatred shown toward African Americans in the justification of White Supremacy is the exact same hatred shown toward LGBT people...

Anti-LGBTI Anglican schismatic bishops meet at Gafcon Singapore Conference 2010

IT'S NOT ABOUT ISSUES

By The Reverend Dr. Jerry Maneker, Part Two

¨...the Power Elite also has as a useful tactic the pitting of one minority group against another, having them cannibalize each other, thereby deflecting attention from its self-serving machinations, and having what is called "conservative Christianity" as providing the supposed biblical and moral justifications for the oppression of the minority group du jour.

In addition, we have the irrational and surreal phenomenon where we have people aligning themselves with the Power Elite by directly working against their own interests, so that we see the spectacle of some African American clergy willing to align themselves with the KKK to oppose same-sex marriage, as seen by Rev. Gregory Daniels who is quoted as having said, "If the KKK opposes gay marriage, I would ride with them."
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The reactionary mind-set of the Power Elite has even infiltrated many other African American clergy and their gullible followers who should certainly know better, so that they perversely use the very same rhetoric, justifications for, and advocacy of, discrimination against LGBT people and their acquisition of full and equal civil rights that were once used against African Americans by the allies and members of the Power Elite, and they are now willfully blind to the fact that it was those "activist judges," "liberals," and courageous people, Black and White, which and whom they now roundly condemn, that made possible the end of slavery and segregation.

TEC San Joaquin diocese Bishop John David Schofield, deposed schismatic

We also have the spectacle of Gay people who are against same-sex marriage, or who align themselves with those who actively discriminate against them, such as Gay people who attend and support homophobic churches and their clergy, and/or who otherwise support and align themselves with their avowed political enemies.

The Power Elite is well able to manipulate the all too frequent shame and self-loathing among Gay people, the shame and self-loathing that they and their reactionary "religious" allies have all too successfully created, fomented, and perpetuated, just as it did among the African Americans during the times of Slavery, and later on, Segregation, of which Malcolm X so brilliantly spoke, most notably in his speech describing the difference between the "House Negro" and the "Field Negro."

The "House Negro" was the one who loved his Master, and couldn't do enough for him. If the Master was sick, he'd say, "What's the matter, Master, we sick?" It was this House Negro who found it remarkable when the "Field Negro" expressed resentment against Slavery and the Master.

Some Gay People are ¨content¨with being treated as an oppressed, second-class citizen, bereft of full and equal civil and sacramental right.

It was the "Field Negro" who rebelled and, as Malcolm said, "Felt the sting of the lash." Unfortunately, among Gay people, there is the equivalent of the House Negro who is quite content with being treated as an oppressed, second-class citizen, bereft of full and equal civil and sacramental rights that "the Master" enjoys. So, we not only have the spectacle of some Gay people not favoring the right for loving same-sex couples who want to make a lifetime commitment to each other from marrying, but we also have some Gay people who seemingly willfully stick their finger in the eye of potential allies by deliberately dressing in bizarre ways for public consumption, thus reinforcing many negative stereotypes that many Straight people in their naivety have of Gay people.

 The same mind-set that has hostility toward LGBT people and their acquisition of full and equal civil and sacramental rights is the mind-set that used what the "religious" reactionary White Supremacists saw in the Bible, and who then selectively used certain verses (usually without understanding the original Greek or the likely context about which those verses were written) in justifying and expressing their savagery against African Americans, both during the institutionalization of Slavery in the U.S., and in the relatively recent past during the era of Segregation and Jim Crow laws.

¨Selective¨ Scriptural Bible ¨Evangelical¨ Extremists

The same hatred shown toward African Americans in the justification of White Supremacy is the exact same hatred shown toward LGBT people and the justification of heterosexism! Some of the manifestations of that hatred are, of course, different, but the hatred and the justifications for that hatred are exactly the same!¨ read it all, HERE

To be continued, Part Three:

"Church of England refuses to comment on Vatican secret talks,"

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Being endlessly tolerant of UNFIT spiritual leadership and empty/flawed second rate religious fellowship has NOW caused the running rampant of hatred

This morning, it´s early Monday morning in Latin America, I started reading the commentaries that had arrived during the night on my blog feed. True, my blog feed is somewhat ¨biased¨ as to content as I, long time ago now, learned how to edit negative nonsense, blind dogma and feardriven ¨vicious¨ demands/attacks from bigots on the internet.


Was I a ¨good Christian¨ to listen to ¨Religiouslike¨ Christians/others who eventually, and often, exposed themselves as common thieves, hate-mongers, sexual perverts and pridefilled/greedy monsters who would stop at nothing to suck the living blood out of OUR living Society whilst keeping themselves well-protected as they harmed others at Church?

No.

No longer does my ¨listening process¨ include being ¨willfully¨ abused, or ¨going along¨ with Anglican (other) Clergypeople/Laity who often are educated in the sickly/backward ministry stewardship of initiating fear/hate and instigating pogroms, excluding, demonizing, exploiting, slandering/abominating acts supported by rigid, and very selective, Scriptural ignorance at Church. HERE

No to Shame! No to Blame! No to Guilt! No to Lies!


Yes.

My ¨tolerance¨ for the progressively demented/dangerous and terrorfilled extremist brothers and sisters at the Body of Christ and in everyday culture has been stretched beyond ANY reasonable social or religious request of me. ¨Listening¨ to non-stop blatant slander and back-alley/locker room slurs does require a FINAL RESPONSE. Perpetuating lies by remaining silent is a SIN! It only took 60+ years for me to learn how to stop DENYING aggressive hate from the abusers. Abuse and lies that were directed DIRECTLY at me and people like me. I had to learn how to start IGNORING the innermost/flawed blind rage spewing out of the mouths of religious bigots. I learned again to TRUST GOD instead of paying attention to some of the demoralizing INSANITY preached in and around Church.

I kept thinking that I needed to be more TOLERANT of them and not simply say ¨No¨ to fear and hate!

No means No, lives are at stake.

Being endlessly tolerant of UNFIT spiritual leadership and empty/flawed second rate religiouslike fellowship has NOW caused the running rampant of hatred at the Global South and amongst other schismatic human ¨sorters¨ at The Anglican Communion in North America and beyond. Thanks be to God there is no REAL traction for this less-than-Anglican ¨demeaning/damning of others¨ movement at The Southern Cone of South America or Latin America in general--bloody Jamaica is an exception as longtime/flawed and failed religious leadership has resulted in it becoming a Hate Crime riddled State...number ONE in The Western Hemisphere. There is hope for me, US and them if they are told NO, or IGNORED or DENIED CREDIBILITY until they reach out for HELP and/or admit their wrongs against others!

The insanity must stop.

FEAR and HATE are running way out of CONTROL in Central Africa and we ought continue to ¨fall away¨ from religious hysteria, fouled leadership, crude justifications/lies, civil/church corruption and basic wrong doing.

We must OBJECT and say NO as we´ve heard and seen quite enough. OUR ¨listening process¨ has been morally compromised by grandstanding/exploiting irresponsible religious ¨big shot¨ criminals at Church. Time to say no to discrimination, exploitation, rape, sexual slavery, injustice and theivery.


I consider my REFRESHED determination to CONTINUE to realize that most abusive/abused fellow pew sitters are quite emotionally/spiritually sick and my former reason for ¨tolerating¨ them is quite dangerous to everyones spiritual good health. God always wanted me to say YES, NO, MAYBE (and then change my mind entirely or repent) but the absurdity of quietly/forever ¨listening¨ to un-Christian pontificating by loathsome ¨mitred pied pipers¨ is wrong!

I wanted to ¨fit in¨ and be accepted at Church/beyond and I was willing to compromise my common sense and some VIRTUE to pass for holylike amongst the demeaners of others. I had forgotten the promise of redemption in all areas of my REAL LIFE would FAIL if I practiced being the less-than-authentic version of the person that God created me to be.

God hates PRETEND. God has made it clear to me to face reality in all my affairs.


I am WILLING to be ¨self-questioning¨ because I was raised, and reconfirmed in my lifetime, to keep the focus on the sometimes less-than-perfect personal character inside of ME! I have and will continue to do the necessary self-housekeeping however I will not submit myself to ANY further attacks or ¨religious critiques¨ by anti-LGBT bigot-excluders at Church (no matter how dressed up in their Sunday best disguise). No longer, no matter where I am, or will be, will I allow rationalizing abusers to USE me, or people like me, for their scapegoats as I sit silently. I will no longer play ¨catch¨ with those who demand ¨certainty¨ that they are more wholesome or more holy/pure or more sexually ¨correct¨ than me...I finally know that it is they who are still learning how ¨to be¨ it´s NOT me! I learned that part already. Leonardo Ricardo

Please note another SOURCE OF INSPIRATION at my sidebar:

¨For the sake of God, Anglican Church must put aside its differences¨

Ruth Gledhill: Commentary HERE

UPDATE: Religion Can Be a Dangerous Thing

¨...We can’t afford to underestimate the enmeshing of a reactionary form of what is called “Christianity” (a so-called “Christianity” that is, in and of itself, a perversion of all of Jesus’ teachings, as well as a perversion of the point of His very life and ministry) with both politics and our culture; that perversion of Christianity has largely created and now fosters the negative and distorted perceptions held about LGBT people by all too many people within secular society.

When clergy and other professing Christians bear false witness against LGBT people, degrade them, engage in hostile rhetoric against them, discriminate against them, and seek to deprive them of the very same civil rights that they enjoy, they are not preaching the Gospel of Christ!

Indeed, willfully or not, knowingly or not, they are preaching and doing the devil’s work!...¨ HERE

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TAKE ACTION AGAINST BIGOTRY, IGNORANCE, SPIRITUAL and SOCIAL ISOLATION: The ANGLICAN UN, United Nations, HUMAN RIGHTS Observer, Mrs Hellen Grace Wangusa from Uganda, has an office and staff provided by the Episcopal Church (USA) at the Church Center 815 Second Avenue, New York, 10017. The direct office line is (001) 212-716- 6263 and the email address unoffice@episcopalchurch.org


Lionel Deimel, Anglican HERO, click HERE,¨No Anglican Covenant¨

UPDATE: Dr Tony Fitchett - a member of the Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion - has told New Zealand's General Synod that Section 4.2 of the Covenant:

“ ... contains provisions that are punitive, controlling, and completely un-Anglican, and reflect the movement towards centralized, Curia-like control that was rejected by the Lambeth conference… over a century ago…” HERE

RUN FOR COVER ARCHBISHOP ROWAN WILLIAMS: The Reverend Waldo (admitted friend of Bishop Robinson) has been elected 8th Bishop of Upper South Carolina!

The Reverend W. Andrew Waldo, who has described Gene Robinson as ´my old friend and mentor´ attracted particular venom from the Right. ¨Much good it did them.¨ GRANDMÈRE MIMI


The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo elected 8th Bishop on the third ballot, The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina

The Rev. W. Andrew Waldo has been rector of Trinity Church, Excelsior, Minnesota, since 1994. He was born in Douglas, Georgia, and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, the second of six children in an Episcopal clergy family. He received his M.Div. from Sewanee, M. Mus. from the New England Conservatory of Music, and B.A. from Whittier College, and is a graduate of Indian Springs Preparatory School, Helena, Alabama. HERE


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