Agape or Agape?

First of all, I'm offended that a website named "Agape" would contain some of the most narrow minded and hateful content I've ever seen. However, that is beside the point and I'm further offended that a number of black ministers have allowed a philosophy of intolerance and exlusion (not to mention a few bucks that probably have come their way via the President) to drive them to promote the destruction of democracy as we know it:

"Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is getting support from a group of black pastors who say judicial nominees like Janice Rogers Brown deserve an up-or-down vote.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate have filed a 'cloture petition,' a move that is intended to force an end to the Democratic-led filibuster of judicial nominees. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the matter on Tuesday. Two-thirds of the senators (67) must vote in favor of the cloture for it to pass. Frist says if that vote fails, he will move to have the filibusters declared out of order for federal judicial nominees -- a move Democrats have labeled the 'nuclear option.'

On Thursday (May 19), black religious leaders demanded that senators stop filibustering, and vote 'up or down on Janice Brown.' At a Capitol Hill news conference with Frist, the clergy members accused Democrats of blocking a confirmation vote on Brown because she is a black conservative.

Bishop Harry Jackson, president of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, said judges like Brown are needed to stop courts from overruling the people with decisions like those requiring the legalization of same-sex 'marriage.' Standing outside the Capitol, Jackson asked a question about those leading the filibuster: 'Why are they afraid to put a black woman on the court?'"
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Christians, he said, are uniting against immoral judicial rulings. "The black church is going to clasp hands with the white evangelical church, and we are going to be a part of turning America's moral compass back to the way that it needs to be." Black and white churches, he said, are uniting to restore "America's moral compass."

According to Bishop Jackson, moral blacks will no longer march in lockstep with Democrats. He said the party's agenda must be one of morality and righteousness in order to win over the vote of this new black church.

It amazes me that two issues have united what I still consider to be the voices of hate and bigotry (white evangelicals) and greedy black preachers ... all in the name of God. I stand agape that these people would dare to speak of agape.