Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Sacred Bigotry BY: KB 7.1.15

OMG!!! I mean it literally Oh MY precious God! So, I’m reading and posting my usual morning devotionals when I come across this post, for the second time; I was too engrossed in the legalities and realities of the SCOTUS’s ruling to really give it any thought. Today, the insanity of this piece hit me right between the eyes…


As a triple minority threat, Black, Gay and female, I am compelled to ask – How is who I love a threat to people? How has MY loving someone of the same gender a threat to THEIR reality? How has the fight for rights and recognition impacted THEIR spiritual walk and THEIR interpretation of the Scriptures?

There is a quiet campaign of hate and exclusion taking place within the body (church). It’s the same type of convoluted thinking and justification that allowed for slavery and segregation. It’s the same kind of thinking that keeps Sunday’s the most segregated day of the week. It’s the same kind of twisted thinking that has given birth to the various self-help, self-healing and prosperity theologies that are being preached in mega-churches today. Yet we continue to scream about the purity and sanctity of the gospel as we continue to twist and pervert it to meet our individual needs.

The path to Christ and enlightenment is very simple and we seem to be adding and subtracting to the word.  While we are busy  preaching our message we tend to neglect the 11th Commandment given to us just before the crucifixion John 13:33- 35     …"Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, 'Where I am going, you cannot come.' "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another."By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

The hypocrisy could almost be laughable if I didn’t know that people are actually rallying a serious contingency to teach churches, a place of refuge and solace, to discriminate against people who need to hear the gospel……(remember the word gospel? It translates to “good news” What’s good about what you’re teaching?)


How ya livin’?

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