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November 11, 2010

Another Teen Suicide's Bully May Have Listened To This "Pastor"

By Rev. Dan Vojir

It is obvious that the Christian Right cares little about gay teen suicides or bullying. What is not obvious is the lengths some of its "men of God" will go to enable bullies. "Dr." James David Manning of ATLAH Ministries in NYC's Harlem may be looked upon as a complete buffoon, but please remember that Killer Clowns From Outer Space was a HORROR film!

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The link to this flash video was removed for security reasons . (NOTE: YouTube has removed it because of its hate speech. Blip TV may require a new plug-in for viewing. If you have a problem viewing it, simply go to Manning's website here. It won't make you laugh because you'll be too stupefied to have any reaction. It actually falls in the category of I-couldn't-make-this-sh*t-up-if-I-tried." Getting past the stammering and poor grammar ("LGBT agenda - those are the correct alphabets"), the viewer is assaulted with absolutes such as homosexuality being the "unforgivable sin," homosexuality leads to bestiality, and "AIDS was created in the toilet of some homosexual man."

Because "Dr." Manning believes that your granddaughter could "fall in love with her dog," he states emphatically that it is the duty of "decent" people to use pejoratives such as "fag" "bulldaggers" and "sodomite" to bring attention to the problem. Quite interestingly, he also gets in digs against the Catholic Church, Ted Haggard, Bishop Eddie Long, Billy Graham and James Dobson ("Hi fallutin' evangelicals with big names.") He then caps his rant with the generic "It is not hate."

RAMBLINGS THAT KILL

Don't let the smoke screen of stupidity fool you: this man's video ramblings are more horror film than comedy. Just think about the carnage caused by those killer clowns from outer space!

Another thought: are there any evangelicals trying to shut him up in the name of their own "compassionate" Christianity? Hardly. They're comfortable in the delusion that the James Mannings of the country are harmless.

But tell that to the unfortunate gay teen who resides in Mannning's Harlem.



Authors Website: http://sacredcowsmakethebesthamburgers.blogspot.com

Authors Bio:
Rev. Dan Vojir is has been writing/blogging on religion and politics for the better part of ten years. A former radio talk show host (Strictly Books ?" Talk America Radio Network) and book publisher, Dan has connected with some of the most interesting people of our time: Steve Allen, William F. Buckley, Alan Ginsburg, Armisted Maupin, Anne Rice, Grace Slick, Bishop John Shelby Spong, Patricia Nell Warren, and Betty White.

He is also an ordained minister in the ULC and has studied extensively on the subject of the Bible and homosexuality. Additional articles can be read on his blog, The Devil and Dan Vojir.

Future goals and activities: a new ministry focusing on reaching personal spiritual levels without the outside influence of proselytism or evangelism called The Church of the Inner Preacher. This ministry will be included in a new website The Devil and Dan Vojir.

Vojir's main goal: to root out hypocrisy in religion and politics. "If only one person is saved from being killed or bashed by inane bigotry, then I'll have accomplished what I was put on earth to do: To Live and Help Live."
http://sacredcowsmakethebesthamburgers.blogspot.com

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