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By. Chris Good, The Atlantic

 

Pat Robertson's spokesman says this is not a call for decriminalizing marijuana. You be the judge.

 

Robertson had this to say, in a recent airing of "700 Club," his regular Christian Broadcasting Network TV show, in the course of discussing his prison ministry:

 

There's something else we've gotta recognize. We're locking up people that take a couple of puffs of marijuana, and the next thing you know they've got ten years, but mandatory sentences, and these judges just say, they throw up their hands and say there's nothing we can do, it's mandatory sentences. Read more »

By. Yvette Carnell

 

It didn’t surprise me when the late C. Delores Tucker and a bevy of Christian leaders mounted a campaign against gangster rap in the mid 1990’s. Gangster rap was ascending on the music charts just as the genre’s sexually explicit and violent lyrics were deteriorating hip-hop culture. It wasn’t the viewpoint of C. Delores Tucker and her supporters which disappointed me, but the “us against them” strategy she employed to get their message across. I thought to myself, those boys you’re vilifying are your sons, grandsons, cousins and brothers.

 

Not much has changed in the black church since the 1990’s. Christians still prefer to paint, with broad strokes, a picture of their enemy standing squarely in Satan’s camp, and then bully said enemy into submission with vivid threats of fire and brimstone. Read more »