{"id":963,"date":"2014-01-13T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/when-evangelicals-support-phil-robertson.html"},"modified":"2014-01-13T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T13:08:00","slug":"when-evangelicals-support-phil-robertson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/when-evangelicals-support-phil-robertson.html","title":{"rendered":"When Evangelicals Support Phil Robertson\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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After \u201cDuck Dynasty\u201d star Phil Robertson made crude and controversial statements to GQ Magazine regarding homosexuality and race and was subsequently (and temporarily) suspended from A&E;, it was disheartening to see so many evangelicals publicly defend him. On TV, Facebook, magazines and newspapers, Christians rallied to \u201cstand with Phil,\u201d sometimes hailing him as a sort of unofficial spokesperson for evangelical Christianity with little regard to the message this might send to the black people and gay people who were the targets of his remarks.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Rather than writing about this myself, I thought I\u2019d open the floor to some Christian brothers and sisters who can explain what evangelical support of Phil Robertson communicates to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

Brittney Cooper\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n


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\u201cWhen Evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me that they don\u2019t think combatting homophobia and racism are significant issues for the Church or in building the Kingdom of God. As an African American Christian who grew up in Robertson\u2019s neck of the woods with aunts and uncles who absolutely experienced racial discrimination in the 1950s and 60s, I find his comments about happy, singing Black people to be insensitive and unconscionable. His quip about \u201cpre-entitlement, pre-welfare\u201d Blacks is the worst kind of race-baiting and racial stereotyping. Yet, when (white) Evangelicals support him, I know it is because his invocation of entitlements and welfare resonates with many of their political views, which unfairly tie welfare programs to black bodies. \u00a0I wonder how we worship the same God, when Phil Robertson\u2019s God seems to hate gay folks and be perfectly fine with the subjugation of Black folks (and women). When Evangelicals support him and his offensive views, they make it clear that they don\u2019t support me, a fellow Christian. They make me wonder if their Christianity is only for straight, middle-class, white people?\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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