Defender of marriage turns out to be a cafeteria Christian.

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Re: Defender of marriage turns out to be a cafeteria Christian.

Is this a case of an ex-negra going back to the dark side?

Good question, Brother. In fact, if he lets his wife get all uppity like that, I wonder whether he ever passed the ex-Negro final exam at all.

[HTannor]

Re: Defender of marriage turns out to be a cafeteria Christian.

Is this a case of an ex-negra going back to the dark side?

[Pastor Isaac Peters]

I used to like Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., who crusaded to save D.C. from all of the bad things that would happen once activist council members legislated from the council to enact sodomite "marriage." Despite being a Pennycoastal, he did seem like a credit to his church. But this article in The Washington False Christian Post reveals him to be a pick-and-choose Christian who thinks that those parts of the Bible that suit him are God's inerrant Word.

We read this in the article:

He bumped into a childhood acquaintance at a restaurant and was smitten. He and Michele married in 1976 in Cincinnati. (His wife goes by the name V. Michele Jackson, and serves as executive pastor of Hope Christian. Both of their daughters, Elizabeth and Joni, also graduated from Williams.)

He has apparently abdicated his Divinely instituted role as head of household, or he would not permit his wife to be either an executive or a pastor in the church:

1 Tim. 2:11-12: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

Consider also this passage from the article:

As he preached and worked, he'd look at black family life and get sullen about the grim statistics of divorce and crime. In his mind, too, there was a convergence of black family life and the clashing of alternative lifestyles. He saw abortion rates and gay marriages as undermining traditional family values. He found the pulpit, just as a cause found him.

While there is no doubt that the recent fad of granting sodomites the special privilege of equality has caused the breakdown of African-American family life over the past several decades, what have African-American churches have been doing about it?

Matt. 7:3-5, 15-20: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. * * * Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither [can] a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

If you believe the Bible (and some of us do, even if Bishop Jackson doesn't), those "churches" lack saving power, but instead are merely social clubs where people to go to speculate on what God's Word says.