By Gregory Tomlin, The Christian Examiner. The Presbyterian Church (USA), which has been hemorrhaging members since it began pressing for gay clergy and same-sex marriage almost a decade ago, is now aligning itself with a radical “social justice” group which demands the government pay reparations to all blacks in the form of free education and income.
On Oct. 19, the denomination’s news service reported that the church’s Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) endorsed the platform of the group calling itself the Movement for Black Lives (MBL).
IPMN itself is a social justice organization. Its chief spokesman, Bob Ross, associate professor of global cultural studies at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has written on the growth of “U.S. Imperialism” in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington. He said IPMN endorsed MBL because the struggle blacks in America face is the same as the struggle the Palestinians face for liberation from Israel.
“These justice struggles are linked in that the people of Palestine are in solidarity with black people in America struggling for freedom, justice and equality,” Ross said. “The black struggle and the Palestinian struggle for justice are not just parallels, but they’re struggles where there is an exchange of ideas.”
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Whatever ends or means the IPMN has provided the PCUSA. This much is true. It provides a safe zone, a safe place, a structure where people who simply hate Jews can associated under the PCUSA rubric. it is a zone or space for toleration, toleration of hate. Not only tolerated but encouraged and promulgated by their writings and blogs, all under supervision of the PCUSA and its officials. Does the IPMN speak for the PCUSA in all matters Jews and Middle East? Only to the degree the institution chooses to use it as its mouthpiece and policy shop. As far as the other “social witness” policy and content of the PCUSA, if there is one group of class, type of people it holds in lower contempt that Israeli Jews, it is Police and Public Safety in general. Why should anyone be surprised?
The louisville sluggers are the gift that just keeps on giving, to align themsleves with a blantant militant group I guess at this point should not surprise, but I’m tire these people acting like they speak for the entire pcusa.