Too Concerned With Justice?

I don't even know where to begin given a comment like that.

"Bishop Harry Jackson, from Hope Christian Church in College Park, Maryland, was Justice Sunday's only black speaker. Jackson had recently unveiled his 'Black Contract With America,' a document that highlights wedge issues like gay marriage that would presumably pry black churchgoers away from the Democratic Party. But so far he has been disappointed. 'Black churches are too concerned with justice,' Jackson lamented in his speech. Nonetheless, his association with the right wing has done wonders for his personal profile. Just after Bush's second inauguration, he was among a contingent of black clergy members invited to the White House for a private meeting."

Have these jack legged, black mega-church ministers lost their minds? This man has a platform that would ask me to lose sleep and prayer over the prospect of two men sleeping together before I worry about issues of justice? Does he have any idea how absolutely insane that sounds? What bible is he reading and preaching from where one nebulous verse out ranks The 10 Commandments and the thousands of verses that address poverty, fairness, compassion and even divorce (way more straight folks getting divorced than there are possible gay folks who want to get married)? He could preach for several lifetimes just using passages that address poverty alone. But he's making a "Black Contract" that obsessess over who somebody else chooses to spend their life with?

I don't know that bible. I don't know that Jesus. I don't know that God ... and don't want to!

(story link via steveguilliard.blogspot.com)