Arlington pastor: Homosexual’s sin not equivalent to my skin

JASPER, Texas?”To compare civil rights with the gay rights movement is demeaning, racist and insulting,” Dwight McKissic told a Jasper gathering Aug. 29.

“To compare civil rights with gay rights is to compare my skin with the homosexual’s sin,” said McKissic, pastor of Arlington’s Cornerstone Baptist Church and a principal organizer of the “Not On My Watch Coalition,” a group of black pastors and leaders opposed to government-approved homosexual unions,

The Jasper gathering, organized by Southern Baptist pastor Charles Burchett of Kirbyville, was at the non-denominational Harvest Way Church and drew a multi-ethnic crowd from several Baptist and Pentecostal denominations. McKissic spoke in Port Arthur Aug. 28 and in Jasper and Beaumont the next day.

McKissic said the 21st century is dividing people by morality the way the 20th century often divided people by skin color.

“My friends, you might not realize it, but we’re in a spiritual war. We’re in a fight for the soul of America. Particularly, we’re in a fight for the soul of black America because many black people and civil rights leaders are buying into this false, unbiblical concept that you can compare civil rights to gay rights. I’m absolutely convinced that this discussion is going to divide the wheat from the tares. We’re going to find out who’s standing on the Lord’s side as we struggle for the next year or two as to how we’re going to define marriage in America.”

McKissic said he has former homosexuals in his congregation and that the church should evangelize and disciple all people.

Amid fatherless homes, teenage rebellion and other social ills, “same-sex marriage could be the knockout blow,” McKissic said.

“The problem with the gay rights movement is that moral authority is not on their side.” Further, the civil rights movement was based in constitutionally guaranteed freedoms that were wrongfully denied while the homosexual “marriage” issue is based on civil anarchy, McKissic contended. He said the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement prevailed because they, unlike the homosexual rights movement, were rooted in moral authority and truth.

McKissic said he was warned by Ann Cools, a member of the Canadian parliament and its only black senator, “If it can happen in Canada, it could very easily happen here if we don’t come together.”

“Right now we can read passages such as Romans 1 and Leviticus 18 and other texts dealing with homosexuality without any fear of repercussion or reprisals or punishment,” McKissic said. “But in Canada pastors can be arrested for simply reading what the Bible says about homosexuality.”

“If (homosexual marriage) is approved by our government, it pits government against God. It pits government against the word of God. It pits government against Sunday School teachers teaching on Sunday that thou shall not lie as a man with a man as if he were a woman. And then on Monday school they will learn that it’s OK with a textbook that will endorse it.”