April 21, 2008

Hey, Barack! How do you plan to “reach out” to this guy?

Church Sign Causes Controversy

A sign is causing heated arguments outside of a church in Jonesville (South Carolina).

Pastor Roger Byrd of Jonesville Church of God put the sign up which reads “Obama Osama humm are they brothers?”

Pastor Byrd says the sign is not meant to be racial or political but rather to make people think. “His name is so close to Osama I have a feeling he might be Islamic therefore he doesn’t recognize Christ,” Pastor Byrd said. …

Pastor Byrd told News Channel 7 he would ask his congregation to vote on whether to keep the sign. They voted unanimously to keep the sign up Sunday night.

Jonesville Church of God does not have any African American members.

Well, Barry, is this one of those “voices of those who still need to be convinced”?

After all, aren’t there a lot of “good, decent, moral people in this country who do not yet embrace their” Muslim or black “brothers and sisters as full members of our shared community”?

If reaching out to rabid homophobes and overlooking the most flagrant, rank episodes of sexism and hate speech from anybody who can raise a quick buck or give you a hint of street cred with your constituents are integral parts of your master game plan, then you must have already figured out how you’re going to bring the rest of the Christofacists (and racists! don’t forget racists!) into your mythical big tent.

Let’s see what kind of “uniter” you are now, Barry.

Posted by: Sapphocrat

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