Reply #52: I have a question for you. [View All]

I hope this will not get me killed.

Is there some synergetic relationship that I don't understand between gospel, the black community and homosexuality?

Is there some kind of entrenched homphobia in the Black community that is so deep that Obama is finding it difficult to gain support from Black churches WITHOUT sticking his foot in the big pile of shit he seems to keep doing? What am I missing with him?

It is not that I support Obama so much that I don't believe that he could be homophobic, it just doesn't SEEM to be true given that he is such a deep thinker. My intuition says no.

So I guess I am trying to ask those here on the other side if they think that he maybe is just in a really tight position in trying to get support from the black religious establishment (where there is more entrenched homophobia than he can deal with politically?)

Do our Black DU'ers here sense more outright homophobia in their churches? As for me, I'm Jewish so I've never been to any church, but I tell you one thing: I have never been in a synagogue that promoted anti-gay ideas.

If you, for whatever reason, consider my asking this question to be racist or homophobic, I apologize if that is an impression you were erroneously left with.

I am just trying to understand why Obama would be doing this/allowing this. It all SEEMS wrong.