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Clinton with Morrison at the Varick gathering.
After a whirlwind day with a former president and an aspiring next president, the Rev. Eldren Morrison Friday said he’s backing Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
On Thursday morning Hillary Clinton invited Morrison to Hartford to participate in a roundtable discussion on gun violence as part of her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Clinton in the wings.
Thursday afternoon, Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, arrived at Varick on Dixwell Avenue. He spent an hour and a half behind closed doors pitching his wife’s campaign to about 30 African-American ministers from around the state. Clinton argued that Hillary Clinton’s agenda would directly help the black and Latino communities and that she is best able to get her ideas enacted into law by working across the partisan divide, according to Morrison. He said Clinton also argued that “her policies will continue the Obama administration’s policies. They’re just a natural flow from much of that work.”
Morrison said Friday that he will vote for Clinton in this coming Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary. He said he’s speaking for himself; his church does not make endorsements.
“I’m supporting the person that came to see me, that reached out to me,” Morrison said.
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He was asked what message he plans to deliver to his congregation — which regularly fills the expansive church for three separate Sunday services each week — about the election.
“I tell my congregation always, ‘You look at those who have been here with you and for you even before this election process. Those who helped you. You need to vote, whether you’re voting Democratic, Republican, or whatever. My main thing is to get people out there to the polls,” Morrison responded.
“But I also tell them, ‘You need to be educated on the issues. You need to go for people who have come to see you and care about you.’ … I am looking at the person who reached out to me.”
Morrison said he sensed that “the majority” of the ministers present at the Bill Clinton session support Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Some ministers present do support her Democratic primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, he added.
Come November, he said, the consensus in the room was: “Whoever wins the [Democratic] nomination, we’re going to support.”
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Perhaps the most significant aspect of Thursday’s Varick session was the coming together of Baptist and Methodist and Pentecostal clergy, Morrison said.
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD…Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the LORD…Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbor. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith." (Jeremiah 23:1-2,16,30-31)
What a sham.And this is why The condition of the Black church in the 21st century can be best summed up as It is not the religion that turns people off, it's the representatives.This is nothing New. There is no shortage of sell outs and traitors. We are awash in good-for-nothing sell out colored preachers.These stab in the back black ministers are growing in numbers across this country, They are a political and financial calculation to ally themselves with this most corrupt and unrighteous adminstrations. Their cynicism and greed are so blatantly obvious that they come off as the unscrupulous always do,making bizarre pronouncements that have no basis in reality. These preachers are useless to black people. They dont serve a spiritual need and their actions are in direct opposition to the political will of the vast majority of black people. They only serve themselves. The way to deal with them is simple. Their congregations must leave their churches en masse and tell them why as they run out the door and down the church steps. Even our enslaved ancestors knew the deal on the sell out preachers.Wake up People.Three things you must not trust. Negro politicians and Negro Preachers,Follow the money trail and it will lead back to them.