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Why do black people tend to be more homophobic? [VIDEO]
In the first clip from this past weekend's Black Church Summit, courtesy of Pam Spaulding, Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson notes that the only time right wing white evangelicals have anything to do with black churches is to cater to their homophobia and that there's no asterisks in the Bible about whom we should love....
In the second, Dyson attempts to explain why the homophobia in the first place -- and connects the homophobia and homoeroticism in the church and in Hip Hop...
Tagged as: evangelicals, hip hop, homophobia, black church, right wing religion
Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.
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