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Dear Ones:
I have to admit that my knowledge of history isn't extensive. I've always concentrated on math and the sciences....and then later on on theology. As such, learning my history 'better', or even for the first time, is an ongoing vocation for me now, especially in this season of my awakened political awareness.
I was raised as and have always been a 'civil rights advocate' and supporter and advocate for gay and lesbian persons.
However, when members of my own church denomination pronounced me to be 'a racist homophobe' a few years back, I lost a great deal of initiative to 'fight for and with them'.
Granted, this is the denomination, the UCC, of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his cadre of Black Liberation Theology minions. But even I was surprised how 'unpopular' I suddenly became once it was clear that I was not absolutely militant on BLT and LBGT/gay marriage.
The thing that 'clinched' my blessed rejection was when I dared to speak of holding some conservative views which I'd previously kept to myself. I was silenced, shunned, reviled and rejected. Yes, I still seem to 'grouse and grumble', but it's to make a point. I am grateful to have had such a front-row seat to intractable American History as bred in my very own 'church'.
The negativity started several years ago. It was then that I learned that the group I had so strongly aligned myself with totally and utterly violated a tenet of Martin Luther King. All blacks voted for Barack, period.
While I was not surprised, I know I was lied to by some close friends who said they did otherwise, but surely they 'voted for the brother'. Actually, I can understand that and if President Obama had turned out to be a good and uniting President, I probably would be applauding the whole thing.
But the Obama Administration is creating racial and religious tensions in the U.S.A. and internationally, the likes of which I can't remember seeing since the 1960's. Everywhere I go, people confide that they are 'leery' of someone or other due to 'race'. It's really very disheartening and as I've said before, "I don't want no race war". But I know we are all being dragged into it one way or another.
Still, I'm an optimist. I look to the better angels in people. I want to cling to the things that provide us with hope, such as this latest Founder's Friday piece done by Glenn Back on 'Black Founding Fathers'.
A little note here: if you are the type who is SO turned off to Beck for whatever reason, don't waste your time here. Your mind is too closed to benefit from anything here. And if you are not willing to take the time to do a little research of your own to follow-up on this...likewise, just ignore this 'newly revealed' (publically, at least) bit of American History.
But if you would like to help seek 'our common ground as Americans' and to maybe avoid the upcoming inevitable 'race war', hang in there. Maybe this Glenn Beck video and related material can serve as a common beacon of hope for those of us 'five times cut, and never broken'. Please join me in this quest, if you can.
"NOT GOD DAMN AMERICA, BUT GOD BLESS AMERICA"
With Love in Christ,
Reverend Barbara Sexton
"The Biblical Biochemist-Where Science Meets the Cross"
www.DearOnesHealingMinistry.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAl05Jxgdi8&feature=player_embedded
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