Reply #37: Right wing slop...

[Luminous Animal]

It is ridiculous to take the position that the left rejected faith. It is a right wing driven piece of crap that too many on this board except without question.

Martin Luther King, Jr., - man of faith
Malcom X, man of faith
Father Daniel Berrigan - man of faith
Fannie Lou Hamer - woman of faith
William Lloyd Garrison - man of faith

The left historically, have embraced it's progressive leaders whose spirituality was the impetus for the social activism. The left does not reject religion. What is being rejected is fundamentalism. And the right has taken this rejection of fundamentalism and catapulted the propaganda, the outright lie, that we have rejected religion altogether. They've managed to equate religion with repulican, and in the process negated the spirituality the drove our civil rights heroes.

And we buy into this crap by inviting bigots like McClurkin. We don't need bigots like McClurkin to energize liberal elements of communities of faith when we have real live liberal spiritual leaders who won't reject our GLBT brothers and sisters for political gain.