I wanted to share with you this gem of a post by FDL’s resident preacher man, Peterr:
This week, a friend forwarded me a CNN piece that shows the Veal Pen mentality hard at work in a place near and dear to me: the church. What’s particularly troubling is the selectivity of the Veal Pen mentality around matters of economics and greed:
[Bishop Harry Jackson] once described same-sex marriage as a satanic plot to destroy the family, called on Republicans to get “political Viagra” and said African-Americans needed to abandon what he called the Gospel of Victimization.
Jackson is not shy about stirring up controversy, but he stops short when it comes to preaching about greed. . .
“I’ve got to watch it,” said Jackson, pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland. “I could get into some big teaching on greed, but the reality is that a lot of that teaching may wind up creating anti-economic-growth and anti-capitalism concepts (in people’s minds). … I always talk about personal responsibility so we don’t get into the blame game.”
When you see a preacher who has no problem getting into the blame game when it come to marriage equality, but quakes at addressing greed, you’re looking at a Veal Pen Preacher.
Go read the whole thing. It’s some serious testifying.
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