"Bishop Continues Fight Against Same-Sex Marriages in D.C.", calls GLBT tactics "satanic"

[Strong Atheist]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dc/2009/08/bishop_continues_fight_against.html

More about him, and his tolerant religious views:

Jackson strongly opposed Barack Obama’s presidential bid, saying that an ongoing “march of darkness” would overtake the country if “we don’t do the right thing in this campaign.”

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Jackson pushes that wedge hard, denouncing abortion as “black genocide” and decrying what he calls the “hijacking” of the civil rights movement by Satan-inspired gay-rights activists who he says have declared war on the church and religious liberty.

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Jackson was an active supporter of anti-gay ballot initiatives in 2008. He took part in conference calls designed to rally conservative pastors to support Proposition 8 in California. And he spent time on the ground in Florida, mobilizing support for Amendment 2. “There is a national agenda by the homosexual lobby to break down and redefine the family,” he said in an Amendment 2 press release.

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Shortly before the 2004 election, Jackson outlined a strategy for defeating the “gay agenda,” writing, “Gays have been at the helm of a fourfold strategy for years, but the wisdom behind their spiritual, cultural, political, and generational tactics is clearly satanic.”

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One of his columns, in fact, was titled, “Why Do Gays Hate Religious Freedom?”

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In 2006, Jackson wrote that the battle against “wide-spread acceptance of homosexuality” is a cause that can unite “all American families, black or white” and blamed the lack of activism on Capitol Hill on gay propaganda:

"The gay community, with the help of the liberal media, has worked strategically on a P.R. campaign to make Americans comfortable with homosexuality. From the slightly effeminate male assistant to the first gay marriage ceremony on television, American audiences have watched homosexual themes creep into their lives."

Horrors! A campaign to make Americans comfortable with GLBT rights. Horrors! :sarcasm:


http://site.pfaw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=harry_jackson_point_man_for_the_wedge_strategy

[Turbineguy]

1. Here ya go, Bish!

Oh, and please don't kick out that stained glass window!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5McSEU48Y8

[Strong Atheist]

2. Wish I could see it; my work blocks youtube, and so does my home, in a way... nt.

[Turbineguy]

3. OK, just for you:

It's the Spanish Inquisition scene from Mel Brook's "History of the World Part 1"

[Strong Atheist]

4. Lol! Thanks for the mental image! nt.

[DCKit]

5. Good luck homophone.

There's more queers on my street, in the Metro and in the city than you'll ever be able to quash again.

Seriously, just the sissy black queers are too numerous, what's he gonna do about those who "pass"? Y'know, the MAJORITY?

Moran FAIL.

[struggle4progress]

6. Bishop Harry Jackson: “Registered Democrat” (Right Wing Watch | May 19, 2008)

Submitted by Kyle on May 19, 2008 - 3:50pm

Ever since Bishop Harry Jackson first emerged on the political scene a few years ago, he has used the fact that he is a “registered Democrat” as a means of gaining traction in the media in order to assist the Religious Right in furthering its agenda.

And push the right-wing agenda he has: fighting against hate crimes legislation; participating in right-wing events like the “Justice Sunday” rallies and Values Voter Summits; hobnobbing with the Religious Right powerbrokers in The Arlington Group; serving as a loyal foot-soldier fighting the War on Christmas; and writing columns criticizing Barack Obama and others minimizing concerns about the thousands of people being killed in the war in Iraq by contrasting those deaths to the “genocidal murder” of “millions of black babies.

Most recently, Jackson has been paling around the country with the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins ...

Through out it all, Jackson has steadfastly maintained and exploited his status as a “registered Democrat” in order to give himself the appearance of nonpartisanship and independence instead of admitting that he is just another right-wing operative. And now this “registered Democrat” is penning columns urging John McCain to take a firm stand against marriage equality in order to win right-wing votes ...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/05/bishop_harry_ja_3.html

[struggle4progress]

9. Bishop Harry Jackson supporting President Bush (2004)

Bishop Harry Jackson, who regularly appears on TBN's Praise The Lord has just made a formal statement throwing his support behind President Bush, and urging all fellow Godly men and women to do the same thing.

I support George Bush and I believe that the Black vote will push him over the top. I also believe that this year's October surprise will be the Black community standing up for righteousness and justice. High impact African-American churches are creating high impact leaders who are developing high impact congregations that are changing their communities ...

http://mhking.mu.nu/archives/050161.php

[struggle4progress]

7. High Impact Leadership Coalition (Right Wing Watch)

Bishop Harry Jackson, a fervent opponent of gay rights and an equally fervent supporter of President George W. Bush, founded the High Impact Leadership Coalition to promote his "Black Contract With America on Moral Values," a six-point platform calling for a prohibition of same-sex marriage, school vouchers, and private Social Security investment accounts, among other things. During the 2004 election, Jackson played a prominent media role in efforts to encourage African-Americans to vote for President George W. Bush ...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/high-impact

[struggle4progress]

8. Bishop Harry Jackson (SPLC)

By Brentin Mock

LANHAM, Md. — Bishop Harry Jackson's Hope Christian Church is the size of a supermarket, with items similarly proffered for sale as soon as you enter the front vestibule ...

While Jackson personally avoids venomous language, he has allied himself with some of the hardest line anti-gay activists on the white Christian Right. One of them is Ohio-based Rod Parsley, the evangelical mega-church preacher whose book, Silent No More, sells three for $10 in the front lobby of Hope Christian's 3,000-member church ...

Jackson works with Parsley and a number of other Christian fundamentalists through his High Impact Leadership Coalition (HILC), a collection of black and white evangelical mega-church leaders who've banded together to fight same-sex union rights and campaign for conservative candidates. Standing next to Jackson at the HILC's coming-out press conference in February 2005 was the Rev. Lou Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, an anti-gay organization so hard-line that it is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group.

The partnership goes both ways. Jackson was a "special guest" and the only nonwhite preacher at the "Justice Sunday II" event held in August 2005 in Nashville. The gathering, sponsored by the hard-line anti-gay groups Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, was aimed at attacking those who sought to block appointment of anti-gay, religious right judges. Jackson was also the closing speaker in Washington, D.C., last September at the "Values Voters Summit," a conference meant to galvanize far-right Christian voters to engage in political action ...

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=408

[Strong Atheist]

10. I do not disagree with anything you posted. Looks similar to the link in the OP

from PFAW...

[struggle4progress]

14. He's just another lying rightwing wacko, pretending to be a moderate Democrat

while working to elect extremist Republican candidates

[Christa]

11. Nice one, Bishop

something special for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k

http://wwww.louisck.com

Driven by simple curiosity, I did some investigative reporting and found out some surprising things about the Catholic Church

[Why Syzygy]

12. He isn't Catholic.

Reverend Harry Jackson is Senior Pastor of Hope Christian Church in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area and serves as a regional Bishop in the Fellowship of International Churches (FOIC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_R._Jackson,_Jr.

They are also affiliated with Promise Keepers.


Not that there aren't some interesting things about the Catholic church ...

[Christa]

13. My bad, thank you

All look the same in the dark, ya'know :evilgrin:

[The Magistrate]

15. Only a Matter Of Time, Sir, Before He is Caught With His Hand In The Till Or A Dick In His Mouth....

Wretches of this sort are wearily predictable....

[Strong Atheist]

17. Agreed. Hello! I don't believe we ever

"met"...

:hi:

[ZombieHorde]

16. "Satanic" is a complement. nt