{"id":1726413,"date":"2022-11-06T20:49:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726413"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:51:07","slug":"dnc-congressman-hold-rally-with-virulently-anti-gay-pastor-to-boost-urban-vote-in-toss-up-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dnc-congressman-hold-rally-with-virulently-anti-gay-pastor-to-boost-urban-vote-in-toss-up-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC, Congressman Hold Rally With Virulently Anti-Gay Pastor To Boost Urban Vote In \u2018Toss-Up\u2019 House Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdnc-congressman-hold-rally-with-virulently-anti-gay-pastor-to-boost-urban-vote-in-toss-up-house-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726413&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Democratic National Committee and a Michigan congressman in a neck-and-neck election race turned to a virulently anti-gay pastor to help get out the vote in the week before the election, The Daily Wire has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats are desperate to hold onto a Flint, Michigan-based seat represented by Rep. Dan Kildee (D) after the district was <a href=\"https:\/\/about.bgov.com\/news\/once-safe-michigan-democrat-faces-peril-in-redrawn-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redrawn<\/a> following the decennial Census to be about 50% Republican, making it a <a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/2022-house\/\">toss-up<\/a> race between Kildee and Republican Paul Junge. To rally urban Democrat turnout, the DNC Black Caucus and the Michigan Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus on Wednesday held a \u201cFlint GOTV Rally\u201d at the Cathedral of Faith Church headlined by its Bishop Christopher E. Martin, Kildee, and Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), according to a flier and video of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Martin caused a furor in the Flint area in June after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100002918256789\/videos\/pcb.5162547517185806\/755382198931939\">video<\/a> showed Martin speaking with disgust about other preachers who he claimed are gay and were trying to spread the \u201cspirit of perversion.\u201d Martin told his parishioners:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLook, y\u2019all quit sitting here in church without the baptism and the Holy Ghost. Because if you got the Holy Ghost, you can tell that some of these preachers y\u2019all listening to are gay. They just fired one from a church around here the other day. I said they should have never hired him, he gay, they should have voted him out. He been gay. He was gay when they hired him, he was gay when y\u2019all fired him. Went in there ripping TVs all off the wall, having a little girl tantrum.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>These folks gay. This ain\u2019t no time to be playing like this over the Lord\u2019s people. Sitting up under these folks. Look, a man, a man pastoring you ought to be married to a woman. There ought to be a first lady somewhere. If not, he might have a first gentleman. We can not have perversion [homosexuality] over the people. Pastor, you mean. I\u2019m not mean. I\u2019m telling you, I\u2019m trying to show you light. Even if the people in the pews are suffering or struggling with their spirit, pray them through. You ain\u2019t got no business up here dealing with it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>How you gonna preach to them and you got it [homosexuality]? We trying to get people out of what they\u2019re in. We are trying to love them out of what they\u2019re in. If you in it, you can\u2019t love nobody out of it. You\u2019re going to stay in it. And you\u2019re going to let that spirit of perversion be all through the church.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Martin\u2019s comments were well-known in Flint, including being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tonya.burns.31\/posts\/5756815161012899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> by Flint city council member Tonya Burns. When the bishop\u2019s church got a contract with the city government related to health services, social justice advocate Nayyirah Shariff told officials that gay and transgender individuals were not likely to feel safe at any place connected to him. \u201cHaving a service in a location that is homophobic? That is not a safe space,\u201d Shariff said, <a href=\"https:\/\/flintbeat.com\/flint-bishop-says-his-beliefs-regarding-lgbtqia-community-wont-impact-mental-health-services-provided-at-local-churches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flint Beat<\/a> reported in June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/1583426399\/videos\/491302006365404\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video<\/a> shows that at the rally, speakers stood behind a podium that said \u201cThe seal of the Bishop,\u201d the same one from which Martin made his videotaped anti-gay screed months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Martin received the Lifetime Achievement Community Service award from Barack Obama in 2017, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nbc25news.com\/news\/local\/flint-pastor-celebrates-elevation-to-bishop-with-church-and-community-members\">NBC 25 News,<\/a> and in April, Kildee joined him to celebrate his promotion to bishop. Martin is a former president of the Flint school board and his church receives government money to run a <a href=\"https:\/\/childcarecenter.us\/provider_detail\/cathedral_of_faith_ministries_head_start_flint_mi\">pre-school<\/a> program and provide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michiganradio.org\/community\/2022-06-13\/flint-churches-will-provide-mental-health-services-in-summer-pilot-program\">mental health services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Virgie Rollins, the DNC National Black Caucus chair, spoke, then handed it off to Rev. Dr. Charles Williams, who Rollins praised for being part of Al Sharpton\u2019s National Action Network. Williams, in turn, praised Martin, saying, \u201cgive it up for Virgie, the DNC National Black Caucus chair. We are so grateful, and to the bishop and pastor of this church. Bishop, his reputation precedes him. Christopher Martin, thank you so much. \u2026 He\u2019s been doing such a wonderful job\u2026 More importantly, I\u2019ve got the opportunity to see him here\u2026 our Michigan congressperson, that is, brother Kildee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got about six days to make sure we do the right thing,\u201d Martin continued. \u201cAs President Biden so eloquently said in 2020, this election is about the soul of the nation\u2026 For the last 40 years Flint has had a fighter by the name of the Kildee family. Dale Kildee served this area with honor and distinction. But what he did understand is that he was going to have an heir to the seat that we delivered him to. He had a nephew that was like a ram in the bush. And this nephew has been a fighter in the fifth for the city of Flint\u2026 and it doesn\u2019t matter that it has been redistricted\u2026 the federal money came because of Dan Kildee\u2026 Make some noise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To rally urban Democrat turnout, the DNC Black Caucus and the Michigan Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus on Wednesday held a \u201cFlint GOTV Rally\u201d at the Cathedral of Faith Church headlined by Rep. Dan Kildee, Rep. Haley Stevens, and Bishop Christopher Martin, who was taped making a virulently anti-gay screed months ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":1726416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1726413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1726416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1726413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1726413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}