Baptist leader criticizes Trayvon Martin support

[CreekDog]

Source: Associated Press

(04-14) 08:55 PDT Nashville, Tenn. (AP) --

The head of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm has condemned the response of many black leaders to the Trayvon Martin case as "shameful."

Some black pastors within the nation's largest Protestant denomination say Richard Land's comments hurt the effort to broaden the faith's appeal beyond its traditional white, Southern base.

Land, who is white, says he stands by his assertion that President Barack Obama, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and the Rev. Al Sharpton are using the case "to try to gin up the black vote."

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/04/14/national/a085536D87.DTL&tsp=1

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This is part of Richard Land's (Southern Baptist leader) long term effort to obscurity for the Southern Baptist Convention.

Also want to point out that Land is essentially saying that three black people are acting in concert to achieve the same things. See the argument goes that black people do one thing and white people do another --everyone acts according to their race.

[hatrack]

1. So much for efforts to leave their "Southern" roots behind . . . .

Yeah, that outreach is really paying off now, hmm?

[tularetom]

2. OK those comments were beneath contempt but what I'd like to know

is, why the fuck does any black pastor want to be affiliated with this backward ass church. Far as I can tell, it's a tool for the rich to keep ignorant white people scared of hell so they can more easily be used as cheap labor, cannon fodder, and foot soldiers in the struggle to keep blacks in check.

Of course, that more or less describes any religious denomination. But this one seems particularly egregious.

[steve2470]

3. I very rarely say this online or in person but......

FUCK YOU SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION

(to a jury: I'm saying that to the association, NOT to individual Baptists)

[Liberal Veteran]

5. No argument here.

I grew up in a Southern Baptist household.

I consider it a denomination that has lost its way.

[SolutionisSolidarity]

12. I'd like to go ahead and say "Fuck you individual Southern Baptists".

They've had plenty of chances to see how messed up their congregations are. If they weren't white supremacists they would have found another church a long time ago.

[southernyankeebelle]

28. I agree with you all. I guess they don't see the stone in their own eye. Funny how they will

stand by a guy named ZIMMERMAN yet it's his name they are standing by not the individual who is hispanic. This is what you get in organized religion.

[Iliyah]

4. We have to keep those

black ministers in line!

There ya'll go again, RACE, and who's mentioning it most of the time?

It is shameful of how the Sanford police treated the death of Trayvon Martin, and it appears to me that this pastor supports guns over life as well.

[fightforfreedom123]

6. Did you not hear?

The Neo-Nazis, Scientologists and Libertarians have told old us "We don't have all the facts."

Maybe Trayvon insulted the Gun and it went off.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. All the snakes are coming out from under the rocks. n/t

[Skittles]

9. I swear, BRDS

the election of Obama drove 80% of them from under the rocks - the rest are coming out now

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. Anyone got any snake traps?

[Skittles]

8. Mr. Land is a teabagger

[LiberalFighter]

10. Is this the same denomination that is considering a name change?

The sooner the better if they pick one that is appropriate to their racism. Like KKK.

Those that are predominantly black should create their own association or they need to remove the racist bastard from their leadership.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Of course Jay-zus wants everyone to heed what this pompous, stupid bag of feathers has to say!

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Young Land practising his earnest Man of Gawd pose.



Jay-sus Our Lord wants Land to occupy the throne
once occupied by the charismatic Jerry Falwell.[/center]

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. ew. Please stop that. I just ate. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

13. This individual is an a-hole and has always been one. Look at his picture and this article.

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/baptist-leader-christians-should-go-to-jail-rather-than-submit-to-obama-mandate

[Judi Lynn]

15. Downright comical hearing this clown trying to imply he and his are as courageous as M.L. King.

They only have courage when they're waddling toward the all-you-can-eat buffet. God help the walking dead man/woman who would stand between them and their destination.

[center][/center]

[Sarah Ibarruri]

16. Waddling is right. My nephew (a GP) would put his fat a** on a diet so fast, and deny him Cialis

unless he dropped weight.

[ronnie624]

22. !

[Dawson Leery]

17. There is a reason they are called "Southern Baptists".

[DallasNE]

18. So What Is "Shameful" Land?

The fact that an indictment was handed down for 2nd degree murder against George Zimmerman for gunning down a black teenager? No, what is shameful is your behavior to not condemn the fact that it took 45 days for an indictment to be handed down and it was shameful to overrule the homicide detective that wanted to book Zimmerman the night of the shooting. What a pitiful group the Southern Baptist Church has become that its spokeman would display such open racism in this day and age.

[Permanut]

20. This bunwad is shameful...

But he will undoubtedly gin up some teabagger money, and KKK money, you, know, all those groups that Jesus would certainly join if he were here today.

[gejohnston]

21. It goes back to the 1845 schism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triennial_Convention#Southern_Baptist_split_and_subsequent_history

[radicalliberal]

23. The original Religious Right movement was ...

... the Ku Klux Klan.

[Tsiyu]

24. Land looks like a mob boss and acts like one too

But then, remember. If you're Southern Baptist, it's not okay to drink alcohol, dance, talk back to your husband, or play cards.

You can, however, shoot unarmed black people. And beat your wife.

Priorities, people. Jeebus has priorities! And gluttons and bigots are Jeebus' favorite peeps!

[dmallind]

25. He's just a tiny fringe who does not speak for real Christians

So what if he's the public policy chief for the biggest Protestant denomination in the country? He's a tiny fringe I tell you! Christians are all for social justice, peace, equality and tolerance dammit!

[Smilo]

26. If Jesus came back today - Land and his cronies

would kick him out of town as fast as possible.

They are not religious men, they are greedy, selfish, power-hungry corrupt men.

[marshall gaines]

27. sb

the southern baptist church has ALWAYS been one of the most racist religious institutions in America. Even their interpretation of Scripture is racist and skewed. Jesus must be embarrassed that they call themselves followers of Jesus.