Yesterday, OK WASSUP! presented the story of a hate-filled pastor, who stood in the pulpit of his church to denounce same-sex marriage and President Obama’s support of it. Today, we’d like to present you with the other side.
On the exact same day of the hate-filled sermon, Rev. Dr. Otis Moss, III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago displaced the image of the “stuck on stupid” pastor, by providing a logical and love-filled explanation of why marriage equality is not our enemy.
In an open letter to those other pastors who have been selectively choosing to “Love Thy Neighbor” so long as they’re straight, Rev. Moss has a very simple message: “LIVE your faith, but don’t LEGISLATE it!”
It’s a powerful statement in support of equality that is a must see:
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"LIVE your faith, but don't LEGISLATE it!"As you stated DJ, "It's a powerful statement in <span><span>s</span>upport</span> of equality.."I couldn't agree more.
That is very powerful. He's a very smart man how he laid it all out.
And on a related note….HuffPost: "Colin Powell: I Have 'No Problem With' Gay Marriage" Former Secretary of State Colin Powell became the latest public official to back gay marriage on Wednesday."I have no problem with it," he said on CNN, "and it was the Congress that imposed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, though it was certainly my position and my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred, as you’ll recall.""But as I’ve thought about gay marriage, I know a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones, and they are as stable a family as my family is, and they raise children. And so I don’t see any reason not to say that they should be able to get married," he said.Powell flipped and announced his support for the repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy in February 2010 after opposing efforts in the 1990s to allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. […]Video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/colin-po…
isnt this obama's old church in chicago? anyway good message. he broke it down and made it simple.