DONALD TRUMP TO MEET WITH 100 SCARED BLACK PASTORS FOR ENDORSEMENT

‪#‎donaldtrump‬

100 SCARED BLACK PASTORS CHOOSE NOT TO PUBLICLY ENDORSE DONALD TRUMP DURING SCHEDULED MEETING:

THE IRS MIGHT BE ORDERED TO TARGET THEIR CHURCHES.

KEY DEMOCRATS HAVE BULLIED & BLACKMAILED MOST BLACK LEADERS INTO SUBMISSION.


~ Black Pastors To Trump: Our Meeting Is Not An Endorsement

When a group of black pastors agreed to meet with Trump on Monday, they did not anticipate that meeting would turn into a de facto endorsement of the Republican frontrunner.

The majority of a group of prominent African-American ministers scheduled to meet with Donald Trump on Monday are making clear that they have made no commitments to endorse the real estate magnate.

Their public declarations of non-endorsement come after a press release from the Trump campaign announced a coalition of 100 African-American religious leaders will appear with the real estate mogul shortly after the meeting to endorse him.

Bishop Clarence McClendon, a Los Angeles-based minister who was invited to the Monday meeting with clergy, posted to Facebook after the Trump campaign announced the coming endorsements.

“I am not officially endorsing ANY candidate and when I do you will NOT need to hear it from pulpitting courtjesters who suffer from intellectual and spiritual myopia,” he wrote.

Bishop Corletta Vaughn, the senior pastor of the Holy Spirit Cathedral of Faith in Detroit, posted a message on Facebook after she said her inbox was “blowing up with inquiries” after her name was included on a list of pastors meeting Trump.

“Let me be clear,” she wrote. “I was invited to attend a gathering of clergy to listen to Mr. Trump on Monday November 30. I respectively (Sic.) declined as I do not support nor will endorse Donald Trump.”

“I was asked 2 meet with Mr Trump too but I refused because until he learns how to respect people you can’t represent me thru my endorsement,” Bishop Paul Morton, a prominent pastor in Atlanta tweeted on Friday.

The Trump campaign did not respond to questions about which ministers will endorse him on Monday.

In fact, of the pastors scheduled to meet with Trump earlier in the day, so far only one, Pastor Darrell Scott, has said he will attend the press conference to endorse Trump.

In an interview with The Daily Beast on Friday, Scott said that he had organized Monday’s meeting between Trump and black clergy, but that his invitation was for them to meet with Trump, not to endorse him.
“Some of these pastors have never even met Trump yet,” Scott said. “They told me, ‘I don’t know if I’m ready to endorse yet. I want to see him and I want hear his heart.’”
Some might not endorse Monday, he said. Some might not endorse at all.

“All of these guys are my friends and they know me,” he said. “I let them know I am endorsing, but that doesn’t mean you are endorsing.”

The Trump camp’s own announcement that 100 black ministers will endorse Trump has been greeted in the black faith community with a combination of confusion and anger, particularly after a week in which Trump has mocked a New York Times reporter with a disability, suggested that a black protester who was kicked and punched at a Trump rally in Alabama “deserved it,” and when Trump himself has suggested Muslims be surveilled at certain mosques.

Recent polls show Trump getting between 3 and 10 percent support from African Americans.
Trump has assured his crowds he will win the black vote.

“The 100 pastors they say are endorsing Donald Trump?

I don’t know where those 100 are coming from,” said Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent AME pastor based in Baltimore.

Bryant, who earlier this year ran for Congress as a Democrat, said he had spoken with a number of the pastors attending the Monday meeting who were taken aback by the Trump announcement about the endorsements.

“I don’t know what policy these pastors could mobilize around. I can’t find a strand of any policy he has that the larger black community would be respond to.”

Post Sources: Daily Beast, CNN, YouTube

Pres Obama's Faith: Is He MUSLIM or a Born Again CHRISTIAN?? (He Can't Be Both!)

#ObamasFAITH

Pres OBAMA is either a MUSLIM or a CHRISTIAN but he can't be both.

America is still primarily a Nation that WORSHIPS the LORD GOD Almighty & JESUS CHRIST.

I know the American Mainstream Media is trying to take CHRIST out of CHRISTMAS, and trying to Attack CHRISTIANS, including U.S. Soldiers & VETS who are CHRISTIANS but…….

America is still primarily a Nation that WORSHIPS the LORD GOD Almighty & JESUS CHRIST.

This is why the “DUCK DYNASTY” Won their recent Media War.

Even TWITTER & GOOGLE tried to Block “DUCK DYNASTY” Petitions Supporting PHIL ROBERTSON, but in the end FREEDOM OF SPEECH & FREEDOM OF RELIGION Won!

If a Human Being (including Pres OBAMA) can NOT Confess the LORD JESUS CHRIST as his or her Personal Savior, then neither he nor she is a true Born again CHRISTIAN.

Just being able to say the name "JESUS" is Not enough because GOD'S word states that even DEMONS can speak the name "JESUS".

However NO DEMON will ever Confess that JESUS CHRIST is their LORD.

Why??

Because SATAN is their LORD Not JESUS CHRIST!!

Nevertheless I question Pres OBAMA’s Faith.

Why??

How can he stand by and watch the State of CALIFORNIA & OAKLAND Coroner's Office Murder JAHI MCMATH (for her ORGANS), without intervening or saying anything??

After all he is President of the ENTIRE United States of AMERICA!

This includes BLACK Children.

Did JAHI MCMATH'S Parents Vote for Pres OBAMA in 2008 & 2012??

If they did.........

What a Shame!!

Dear GOD Help Us!!

As The Obamas Celebrate Christmas, Rituals Of Faith Become Less Visible

President Obama celebrated a low-key Christmas in Hawaii this year. He sang carols, opened presents with his family, and visited a nearby military base to wish the troops “Mele Kalikimaka” — the Hawaiian phrase meaning “Merry Christmas.”

But the one thing the president and his family did not do — something they have rarely done since he entered the White House — was attend Christmas church services.

“He has not gone to church hardly at all, as president,” said Gary Scott Smith, the author of “Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush,” adding that it is “very unusual for a president not to attend” Christmas services.

Historically, watching the nation’s first family head to church dressed in their Sunday best, especially around the holiday season, was something of a ritual. Yet Mr. Obama’s faith is a more complicated, more private, and perhaps — religious and presidential historians say — a more inclusive affair.

And his religious habits appear to be in step with a changing America, with fewer people these days reporting that they attend church on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve. According to a Pew Research Center study released this month, 54 percent of adults said they planned to attend Christmas religious services, while 69 percent said they traditionally did so as children.

Mr. Obama has gone to church 18 times during his nearly five years in the White House, according to Mark Knoller of CBS News, an unofficial White House historian, while his predecessor, Mr. Bush, attended 120 times during his eight years in office.

But those numbers do not reflect the depth of Mr. Obama’s faith, said Joshua DuBois, the former head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. “President Obama is a committed Christian,” said Mr. DuBois, who sends the president a daily devotional by email, and is the author of “The President’s Devotional.”

“He has a serious practice of faith even though he doesn’t necessarily wear it on his sleeve,” he said.

Mr. Obama’s religion first garnered national headlines during the 2008 campaign; after sermons by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. — Mr. Obama’s spiritual mentor — included inflammatory remarks, Mr. Obama was ultimately forced to renounce the minister and sever ties with the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, which he and his family had attended for 20 years.

But rumors that he was a “pretend Christian” or a Muslim Manchurian candidate — fueled by his Kenyan background and the boyhood years he spent in Indonesia — dogged him. A 2010 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that nearly one in five Americans thought the president was a Muslim, and 43 percent did not know what his religion was.

“I would argue that Obama’s faith has been one of the most misunderstood of any president out there,” Mr. Smith said.

People close to the president say that Mr. Obama’s spiritual beliefs are profoundly held. In addition to the daily devotional he receives — which contains lines of Scripture and quotations from people as wide-ranging as Nina Simone and Johnny Cash — Mr. Obama regularly speaks to spiritual leaders on a variety of topics. Every year on his birthday, Mr. DuBois said, the president convenes a phone call with ministers “to thank God for the year that was and pray for the year ahead.”

He has turned to his faith during difficult times, and is comfortable invoking Scripture; his speeches and remarks are peppered with the phrase “I am my brother’s keeper,” echoing the Old Testament phrase.

His vision of faith is also an inclusive one, perhaps an outgrowth of his own eclectic upbringing. He spent several childhood years in Indonesia, with its predominantly Muslim population, but attended a private Catholic grade school for much of that time; he later lived in Hawaii, a melting pot of cultures.

Mr. Obama set his own inclusive tone early, declaring during his first Inaugural Address, “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.” He was the first president to hold an Easter prayer breakfast, and he also held the first Passover Seder at the White House, traditions he has repeated.

“He’s very conscious of the fact that this is a pluralistic nation,” said Randall Balmer, the chairman of Dartmouth College’s religion department and the author of “God in the White House: A History.”

Yet the public rituals of religion have proved tricky for Mr. Obama. When he arrived in Washington after his election in 2008, many of the city’s churches began furiously vying to have him and his family join their congregation. As president, he has attended services at several of the city’s African-American churches, as well as St. John’s Episcopal Church, which is across the street from the White House. But he ultimately opted against choosing a spiritual home in the nation’s capital.

“I think part of the reason he’s been wary of affiliating with a church in Washington is that he got so burned by the Jeremiah Wright situation, and he’s kind of backed away from that,” Mr. Balmer said.

The public has long cared about the religion of its president. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, for example, was not a regular churchgoer before he entered office. After he was elected, at the urging of the Rev. Billy Graham, he joined the Presbyterian Church, and was baptized, becoming a diligent member of the faith.

Part of Mr. Obama’s decision to largely opt out of religious services reflects a desire to avoid disruptions by his Secret Service detail and security requirements, echoing concerns of Ronald Reagan, who presidential historians say rarely went to church.

“The important thing to President Obama isn’t where you worship God, but how you serve God by serving other people,” Mr. DuBois said.

Mr. Balmer put it more bluntly: “If the calculus is, ‘Do I spend two hours going to church Sunday morning or do I get to watch college basketball Sunday afternoon?’ If he had to choose between the two, and knowing Obama, he’d probably choose college basketball.”

He added, with a laugh, “And that’s a calculation many Americans make on a weekly basis.”

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: December 29, 2013

An earlier version of this article misstated the number of times President Obama and his family attended a Christmas church service since moving into the White House. They did so at least once, in 2011; it is not the case that they never attended Christmas church services during that time. An earlier version also misstated the number of years Mr. Obama has been in the White House.

It is nearly five, not six.

Sources: AP, NY Times

"DUCK DYNASTY" UPDATE: PHIL ROBERTSON RETURNS TO A & E! (FREEDOM OF RELIGION WINS!!)

#DuckDynasty

AFTER FAN BACKLASH (13.4 Million Viewers), PHIL ROBERTSON RETURNS TO A & E'S "DUCK DYNASTY" SHOW.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH.....& FREEDOM OF RELIGION WINS!

ARTICLE: "A&E calls off 'Duck Dynasty' suspension"

A&E has ducked away from a controversy surrounding the stars of its hugely popular reality series Duck Dynasty.

The network issued a statement late Friday backing off from its previously announced suspension of Phil Robertson, the patriarch of the clan behind the successful Louisiana-based Duck Commander duck-calling business.

The suspension was triggered by Robertson's interview with GQ, published last week, in which he made anti-gay statements, which he said reflected his religious beliefs.

The interview sparked protests from human-rights groups, and led to A&E's quick decision to suspend Robertson from future episodes.

But that action also triggered a backlash from some Dynasty fans, who tried to organize a boycott of the network -- and Robertson's own family, which suggested it would not be willing to keep filming the series without him.

In a statement, the network cited its "core values" of "inclusion and mutual respect" to explain why "we reacted so quickly and strongly."

"While Phil's comments made in the interview reflect his personal views based on his own beliefs, and his own personal journey, he and his family have publicly stated they regret the 'coarse language' he used and the misinterpretation of his core beliefs based only on the article.

He also made it clear he would 'never incite or encourage hate.'

We at A+E Networks expressed our disappointment with his statements in the article, and reiterate that they are not views we hold."

The statement then offered some wiggle room:

"But Duck Dynasty is not a show about one man's views.

It resonates with a large audience because it is a show about family… a family that America has come to love.

As you might have seen in many episodes, they come together to reflect and pray for unity, tolerance and forgiveness," the statement said.

"After discussions with the Robertson family, as well as consulting with numerous advocacy groups,

A&E has decided to resume filming Duck Dynasty later this spring with the entire Robertson family."

An already completed 10-episode season will begin airing Jan. 15, with all of the Robertsons featured.

The new episodes, scheduled to be shot this spring, will air later next year.

Duck is the No. 2 series on cable TV, behind The Walking Dead, and ranks among the top 30 of all TV shows with an average of 13.4 million viewers.


Sources: A&E, USA Today, Youtube