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Black Churches Are Becoming More Gay-friendly

For years, there has been an unspo­ken but deeply preva­lent don’t ask, don’t” tell pol­i­cy in the black church. But today, Duke University released data that show those days may be com­ing to an end.Their research has found: “Acceptance of homo­sex­u­al black-churchmem­bers in black protes­tant church­es has surged of late. The per­cent­age of church­es accept­ing of gay and les­bian mem­bers has risen from 44 per­cent in 2006 to 62 per­cent in 2012. Further, 22 per­cent of black church­es report­ed being accept­ing of gays in vol­un­teer lead­er­ship roles, up from 6.5 per­cent six years prior.”

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a spike in gay accep­tance in the church. Just last year, Pope Francis made inter­na­tion­al news when he called on the Catholic Church to love gays and les­bians, who “must be accept­ed with respect, com­pas­sion and sensitivity.”

Many applaud­ed Francis for being so inclu­sive, but black con­gre­ga­tions have his­tor­i­cal­ly been a lot more resis­tant to such pro­gres­sive ideals — espe­cial­ly where homo­sex­u­al­i­ty is con­cerned. Which begs the ques­tion: why have African-American church­go­ers sud­den­ly become so gay friend­ly? Filmmaker Yoruba Richen spec­u­lates:

“What’s hap­pen­ing with­in the black church — and in the black com­mu­ni­ty as a whole — is reflec­tive of what’s hap­pen­ing in the coun­try as a whole in terms of an open­ing to talk­ing about sex­u­al­i­ty and to sup­port­ing same-sex marriage.

Barack Obama came out for same-sex mar­riage, which I think affect­ed a lot of people’s will­ing­ness to be open to the idea. The NAACP came out after Barack Obama. Many black church­es and lead­ers of black church­es start­ed to come out and sup­port mar­riage equal­i­ty, many of whom have a nation­al presence.”

Richen may be on to some­thing, because Duke’s data came from the National Congregations Study, which in 2012 inter­viewed the lead­ers of 1,331 American church­es, mosques, tem­ples, syn­a­gogues and oth­er hous­es of wor­ship. 2012 is also the year President Obama “came out” in sup­port of same sex marriage.

Is that a coin­ci­dence? Perhaps not.

Either way, these find­ings con­firm what many LGBT Christians have start­ed notic­ing around the coun­try; gen­er­a­tions of anti-gay prej­u­dices with­in the black church are being dis­man­tled. Read more , the​grio​.com

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  1. Wow! This is one of the main rea­son why I don’t go to church any­more. I have been so obser­vant about these dev­il dens claim­ing to be church­es. If you break the laws of the coun­try they will pun­ish you. 

    So, all of a sud­den man think they’re so pow­er­ful that God is going to nego­ti­ate with them! To make things worse, most of these church lead­ers have no moral com­pass to lead people. 

    It has been rumored that that Pope Benedict was retired because he’s anti-gay and the cur­rent American pres­i­dent use his pow­ers to let the Vatican force him into retirement. 

    Honestly, of all the regrets I have in my life was to vote for Barack Obama. It’s the worst mis­take I’d ever made! 

    Presently, it’s the same homo­sex­u­al agen­das that’s the root of the prob­lem with the West and Russia. As soon as Putin signed the laws let­ting his peo­ple know that the rec­tum is not a sex organ. That’s when the good, good CIA used the peo­ple of Ukraine to stage six months of sit in demon­stra­tion. Which coun­try could come into America and stir up prob­lem in America? We’re all gullible, so, they keep regur­gi­tat­ing the lies and the peo­ple los­es their san­i­ty, think­ing, inde­pen­dence and they’re all zombies. 

    For those of us, who believe and know that there’s a God, can­not be bought or sold. I know that I will be ostracise, mar­gin­al­ized, vil­i­fy and pos­si­bly killed by them.

    If you are not com­pli­ant pre­pare for Economic Terrorism because that’s the best way for peo­ple to sell their souls. To those who believe there’s no God. I laughed at them. 

    Presently, our peo­ple are always will­ing to sell their souls for the advance­ment of the dev­il and evil Europe agendas. .

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