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Controversial pastor gives peaceful message
A controversial pastor came with a peaceful message at Monday's MLK breakfast in St. Pete.
For weeks the LGBT community has been calling for Rev. Jamal Bryant to be removed as the keynote speaker of the event following what they call Bryant's divisive statements about the gay community.
Bryant spoke this morning, but not without a bit of protest.
A very small group of protestors actually stood up and turned their backs on Rev. Jamal Bryant when he spoke.
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However, most of the 13-hundred in attendance were there to reveal their support. Bryant's message was mostly about unity. He also addressed the controversy surrounding his visit.
"If this is truly a democratic society, I have the independence of religion and I have the freedom of speech," Bryant told ABC Action News.
Rev. Bryant didn't hold back his thoughts when he spoke with ABC Deed News after Monday morning's MLK breakfast. Bryant, a highly f
Harris praises pro-Farrakhan pastor who said gay people should feel 'uncomfortable' in their 'sin'
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FIRST ON FOX: Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris visited the mega church of a controversial pastor this past Sunday in a key swing state, where she thanked him for his "leadership" and said she was honored to be in attendance to "celebrate" what he has "accomplished."
Harris attended a church service at the Georgia-based New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, which is under the pastoral leadership of senior pastor Jamal H. Bryant. The longtime pastor has repeatedly praised the antisemitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and said gay people should feel "uncomfortable" in their "sin."
Bryant, who introduced Harris as an "American hero" and "voice of the future," told the congregation that their unborn grandchildren are going to one day ask where they were on the morning of the church service and called on them to "make some noise" for their "fearless leader."
"Pastor Bryant, I thank you for your lead
Rev. Jamal Bryant (Courtesy Photo)
Gay rights organizations in St. Petersburg, Fla. are asking for prominent Baltimore pastor the Rev. Jamal Bryant to be uninvited as the keynote speaker at the 30th annual MLK Leadership Award Breakfast on Jan. 18 because of past remarks he has made about homosexuality.
The Tampa Bay Times reported that Bryant denounced homosexuality in a 2012 YouTube video, calling it a sin and verb it on the alike level as gambling and drug addiction.
“Homosexuality is not the only sin,” Bryant said in the nine-minute-long video clip. “But it is a sin. It is an alternative lifestyle. It’s an alternative rebellion.”
Susan McGrath, chairwoman of the Pinellas County Democratic Party and president of the Stonewall Democrats, believes that his views of homosexuality are not in line with King’s message of love and inclusion.
McGrath also said that Bryant’s stance goes against St. Petersburg’s image as a diverse and welcoming city.
“The capital has made a lot of progress,” McGrath told the Times. “It casts an unfair shadow on St. Petersburg.”
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Alleged former lover of Pastor Jamal Bryant speaks out after he's accused of ‘egregious sexual conduct’
A woman who alleges she had a yearslong intermittent sexual relationship with Pastor Jamal Bryant of Adj Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, Georgia, is suggesting that he be removed from the pulpit because he's not fit to be a spiritual leader.
“We all have sinned and we’ve all fallen short, but we can’t keep thinking that it’s OK to get your ‘get out of jail free card’ every hour you do this,” said the woman, Tunya Griffin, who serves as associate director of university/community partnerships at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
“That’s not grace at all. And so the response of the church is around this ideal: if somebody falls we help them earn up. We clean them up and we carry them back into the fold. OK, yes, we do. They fall. We clean them up. We bring them back in. But that does not mean that you carry them back in to occupy the same space,” she said.
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