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DonViejo

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Mon Apr 9, 2018, 05:31 PM Apr 2018

Trump Evangelical Adviser Claims BLM Can't Achieve Justice With 'Lesbian' Leaders


BY MICHAEL EDISON HAYDEN ON 4/9/18 AT 3:03 PM

A member of President Trump’s evangelical advisory board suggested that the activist group Black Lives Matter can’t achieve its goals of racial justice because they have “a few lesbians” in positions of leadership.

Bishop Harry Jackson, a Maryland-based African American pastor who serves on Trump’s evangelical advisory council, made the remarks last week while speaking on “The Jim Bakker Show,” a program hosted by the veteran televangelist.

“We can’t have social justice, we need biblical justice,” Jackson told the audience. “It matters whose allegiance or whose definition of justice you are going to use to bring justice to the culture,” Jackson said. “It matters that Black Lives Matter has, at the head, a few lesbians who are against the patriarchal society—you see, black people can say this; white folks, you have a hard time saying this about Black Lives Matter.”

He added: “Black lives matter is true— there does need to be a value of human life. But by destroying biblical foundations you can never arrive at God’s justice.”

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Trump Evangelical Adviser Claims BLM Can't Achieve Justice With 'Lesbian' Leaders (Original Post) DonViejo Apr 2018 OP
This is insane Matthew28 Apr 2018 #1
Against the patriarchal society? As if that were a bad thing? Marcuse Apr 2018 #2
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