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Will Gay Marriage Force Black Churches to Reconsider Democratic Party?

Tea Party in Wisconsin formerlyTea Party Wrote: May 18, 2012 11:08 AM

Exactly, unlike the White pastors, they get an IRS pass when they use their pulpits for electioneering as well as inviting DemonRAT candidates to spew from their pulpits. They will answer one day and I submit, unless they start waking up and realizing it's THE CROSS AND HIM CRUCIFIED that matters, not the color of a given candidate or their agenda. Any Black Pastor (or white for that matter) who encourages their congregants to vote for an EVIL candidate, or an EVIL political party is denying GOD.

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Will Gay Marriage Force Black Churches to Reconsider Democratic Party?

President Obama's affirmation of gay marriage threatens to undermine the near-monolithic black support Obama enjoyed in 2008. Several members of the black clergy now say they intend to sit out the presidential election. One poll from last November found black opposition to gay marriage at 58 percent, higher than the rest of the country, which is about evenly split.

The real question is this: What took black church leaders so long to reconsider their near blind support for the Democratic Party?

The historical strength of black churches has been that of a moral and spiritual refuge in a once-hostile country...