{"id":11822,"date":"2018-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/aussie-commentator-slams-bishop-s-hot-gospel-wedding-sermon\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T00:00:00","slug":"aussie-commentator-slams-bishop-s-hot-gospel-wedding-sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/aussie-commentator-slams-bishop-s-hot-gospel-wedding-sermon\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Commentator Slams Bishop\u2019s \u201cHot Gospel\u201d Wedding Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian columnist <strong>Andrew Bolt<\/strong> has panned <strong>Reverend Bishop Michael Curry<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018show-stealing\u2019 sermon at <strong>Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s<\/strong> royal wedding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cI have been to black churches in the United States, Kenya and Uganda, and love the impassioned oratory, particularly of preachers in Harlem and the American South,\u201d Bolt writes.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut it jarred to hear that style imported into St George\u2019s Chapel at Windsor Castle, one of the ultimate symbols of English culture\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhat thrilled many of the Left was seeing a black preacher at a British royal wedding, upsetting \u2018titled stiffs\u2019 and \u2018white colonisers\u2019.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cIt was the politics of Curry, not the Christianity, which thrilled them, and the cultural disruption he represented\u2026<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cFor his admirers, what counted was not what Curry said but that it was a black man saying it, and to white royalty.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cFair enough that Meghan wanted her own heritage acknowledged. The British royal family should also be glad that she now broadens its appeal, as the guest list of American celebrities also confirmed.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut Curry\u2019s hot-gospelling tipped the scales from a mere acknowledgment of culture into a kind of hectoring on race.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ANDREW BOLT: Whose wedding were we watching on Saturday? What was really going on when Bishop Curry, head of the American Episcopal church, did his holy-roller spiel?&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XxQU448umn\">https:\/\/t.co\/XxQU448umn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Herald Sun (@theheraldsun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theheraldsun\/status\/998148868960346112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian columnist Andrew Bolt has panned Reverend Bishop Michael Curry\u2019s \u2018show-stealing\u2019 sermon at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle\u2019s royal wedding. \u201cI have been to black churches in the United States, Kenya and Uganda, and love the impassioned oratory, particularly of preachers in Harlem and the American South,\u201d Bolt writes. \u201cBut it jarred to hear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-11822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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