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WEDGE STRATEGY Harry Jackson Is the Face of the Religious Right’S Outreach to African American Christians SPEAK OUT AGAINST INTOLERANCE. That’s the American Way POINT MAN FOR THE WEDGE STRATEGY Harry Jackson is the face of the Religious Right’s outreach to African American Christians by Peter Montgomery Senior Fellow, People For the American Way Foundation www.PFAW.org Introduction myself to speak up.” Jackson bragged that when he got a group of African American pastors to hold a press In recent years, Religious Right leaders have made a conference (falsely) attacking a federal hate crimes bill as major push to elevate the visibility and voices of politically a threat to religious liberty, he got media coverage that conservative African American pastors. The star of that traditional Religious Right groups had been unable to effort has been Bishop Harry Jackson. Jackson, the generate. pastor of a congregation in Maryland, has been ushered into the Religious Right’s inner circle since he announced His media profile, and his embrace by Religious Right in 2004 that God had told him to work for the reelection leaders and right-wing politicians have led to his being of George W. Bush. Since then, Jackson has become anointed a “conservative Christian A-lister” by Beliefnet’s somewhat of an all-purpose activist and pundit for right- Dan Gilgoff and “one of the 50 most influential Christians wing causes – everything from judicial nominations to in America” by the Church Report. In 2005, then- immigration and oil drilling -- but his top priorities President of the National Association of Evangelicals mirror those of the Religious Right: he’s fervently anti- Ted Haggard said of Jackson, “He’s building a bridge abortion and dead-set against gay equality. And he has between white evangelicalism and African American enthusiastically adopted the Right’s favorite propaganda evangelicalism that we haven’t had in 20 years.” tactic: he routinely portrays liberals, especially gay-rights Jackson strongly opposed Barack Obama’s presidential activists, as enemies of faith, family, and religious liberty. bid, saying that an ongoing “march of darkness” would Jackson has big ambitions. He sees himself as a game overtake the country if “we don’t do the right thing in this changer in the culture war, someone who can help campaign.” While Jackson failed miserably in his efforts conservative Christians “take the land” by bringing about to convince African American Christians to vote against a political alliance between white and black evangelicals. Obama last year, he played an active role in organizing Religious Right leaders see him that way, too, which is religious coalitions that helped pass anti-gay initiatives in why they’ve helped Jackson build his public profile. California, Florida, and Arizona. Those efforts reflected Jackson’s primary strategy for building a multi-racial At Justice Sunday II, an August 2005 event organized Religious Right: using attacks on gay rights and abortion by the Family Research Council to mobilize support for as a wedge between African American Churchgoers and Bush administration judicial nominees, Jackson said that their political allies in the civil rights and progressive God was calling for the Black Church to team with white communities. evangelicals and Catholics and tell both parties, “it’s our way or the highway.” Said Jackson, “We’re not going to sit Jackson pushes that wedge hard, denouncing abortion as back…you and I can bring the rule and reign of the cross “black genocide” and decrying what he calls the “hijacking” to America and we can change America on our watch of the civil rights movement by Satan-inspired gay-rights together.” activists who he says have declared war on the church and religious liberty. Jackson has little patience for Christians Jackson has become popular with the media, not only who don’t recognize that the nation is in the midst of a because he is a smooth performer, but also because a culture war, with the church under ferocious attack. black pastor and self-described “registered Democrat” is viewed as a desirably atypical right-wing spokesperson. Jackson works hard to come across as polite and reasonable Jackson understands this dynamic, telling an interviewer on mainstream media, but takes a different tone in his on Daystar Christian television that it “takes Blacks like column, on conservative Christian media, and when speaking to Religious Right audiences. When he’s on Anytime Jackson stands at a podium, appears before friendly turf, he is fond of the rhetoric of warfare. He told a camera, or shows up in a news article, he’s likely to identify a Values Voter Summit crowd that they were “the Navy himself as a “registered Democrat.” But he’s admitted that’s Seals of the Christian movement” and the conference basically a ploy to give him credibility when attacking Obama they were attending was “boot camp.” At a Pentecostal or pushing Republicans: conference in Virginia in 2007, Jackson railed against I voted for President Bush, but here in Maryland—a primarily hate crimes legislation, shouting that “God’s looking for Democratic state—in order to vote in the primaries that affect a SWAT team …. He’s looking for a team of Holy Ghost the election, you need to be a Democrat. That’s where I started. terrorists!” Over time, however, I’ve found that I have very little in common with the Democratic Party in terms of national moral values Jackson, who gets a laugh at conservative gatherings issues. Still, being able to say I’m a registered Democrat disarms reassuring white attendees that he’s the “other Jackson,” many of the people who want to write me off as an “Oreo” or an i.e. not Jesse, is blunt in his attacks on African American “Uncle Tom.” People For the American Way www.PFAW.org fOUNDATION 1 leaders he disagrees with. Just before the 2006 elections, It’s useful to the Religious Right to have African American in a piece titled “Raped or Represented: An Open Letter pastors at the forefront of their anti-gay campaigns. It to Black Americans,” he wrote, “For the last few years, I puts equality activists in the position of challenging have had a mental image of many of our popular black black pastors who are accusing them of “hijacking” the leaders shuffling into smoke-filled back rooms and civil rights movement. And it gives people opposed to receiving ‘twenty pieces of silver’ in exchange for the black equality for gay Americans assurance that their prejudice community’s vote.” He wrote that “Some of the most is acceptable, not something akin to racism. And it is well-known black civil rights organizations have sold out particularly useful to the Right to elevate someone who the black community” by supporting laws to protect gays so readily denounces traditional civil rights leaders and from discrimination on the job. In his 2008 book with organizations as well as gay-rights groups. Tony Perkins, he accused the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights Jackson’s profile has been boosted significantly by his coalition of being “co-opted by the radical gay movement.” alliance with Religious Right leaders James Dobson, (p 65) And just last fall, he charged that the NAACP Tony Perkins, and Lou Sheldon. They’ve invited him had abandoned the black family by supporting marriage into insider leadership circles like the Arlington Group. equality. He also slammed the NAACP on Inspiration They’ve made him a regular speaker at Religious Right TV, saying it is “crazy” to say gay marriage is a civil right. events, where he builds his public profile and raises money from white evangelicals. At a Values Voter Summit he Jackson says that the “threat to marriage” and the broader told white evangelicals something they don’t hear very assault on Judeo Christian values “have prompted a often – the notion that racism is a continuing reality in powerful new conversation between white and black America and it’s their responsibility to do something evangelicals” and forged relationships that “are in part about it. He told the whites in the room that the olive fueling the transformation of the conservative evangelical branch of peace has to be put forward by white churches: movement.” Indeed, he celebrates the passage of anti-gay “If you don’t do it, the blacks aren’t coming.” amendments in 2008 as the hope for the future of the Religious Right: Jackson is also on the board of The Call, an organization that mobilizes evangelical youth and which waded deeply “The black and Hispanic vote for marriage into politics last year with a national rally on the National amendments around the country, despite their Mall and a pro-Prop. 8 stadium rally in California. He overwhelming support for Barack Obama, told journalist Michelangeo Signorile last fall that he demonstrates that there is hope for conservatives serves on the board of the National Association of to make huge inroads into minority communities. Evangelicals. He was among the participants at a three- A new breed of minority voter is emerging that day conference “commemorating the 400th anniversary can be reached with the right message.” of the settlement of Jamestown as evidence of America’s heritage as a ‘Christian nation.’” Jackson and Friends Gays as the Enemy Religious Right leaders have long dreamed of forging lasting political alliances with socially conservative Jackson was an active supporter of anti-gay ballot initiatives African American Christians. More than a decade ago, in 2008. He took part in conference calls designed to then-Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed launched the rally conservative pastors to support Proposition 8 in Samaritan Project, an effort to build working relationships California.
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