Jamie Foxx Catching Heat From Religious Groups For Calling President Obama 'Our Lord And Savior' During Soul Train Awards [Video]
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A joke that Jamie Foxx made while onstage during the 2012 Soul Train Awards has gotten him in hot water with some religious groups.
"It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and savior Barack Obama. Barack Obama," Foxx said on the show, which aired on November 25th.
Many in the audience found humor in the joke, but not Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in southern California and author of "The Purpose-Driven Life."
“That sent shivers up my spine,” Warren said, according to The Examiner. “There’s a word for that – it’s called blasphemy. It’s wrong. That’s called creating an idol. Idolatry is forbidden by the first two commandments of the Ten Commandments."
Bill Donahue, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights in the United States issued a statement regarding Foxx's comments.
"Foxx’s epiphany is startling. It just goes to show that even though Obama did not succeed in stopping the oceans from rising (as he promised to do in 2008), he did succeed in convincing Jamie Foxx, and no doubt legions of others, that God exists," Donahue wrote. "Whether God can survive an ACLU lawsuit accusing him of violating church and state grounds remains to be seen."
Donahue also points to a 2011 interview where a reporter asks Foxx what God means to him. He responded by saying: “What does God mean to me? I don’t know, what does he mean to you?"
Fox News also got in on the debate during a recent segment on the Sean Hannity Show.
"The intellectually superior don’t need the crutch of religion," said radio host and Fox News commentator Mary Walter. "Those of us clinging to our guns and religion… we’re somehow less evolved. It’s about a societal religion as opposed to a church religion, because if the government gives you everything, the government becomes your religion, and he’s our leader.”
Foxx has responded to the uproar in an interview with ET's Nancy O'Dell.
"I'm a comic," Foxx says, "[and] sometimes I think people get a little too tight. And, it's getting a little tougher for us comedians [because] some people take it and want to make a huge story out of it, but it's a joke."
Is this all a big fuss over nothing? Or do the religious groups have a point?
Jamie Foxx calls Barack Obama "our Lord and savior" at the Soul Train Awards
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Information from the Huffington Post was used in this article
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Comment by Apollo on November 29, 2012 at 9:13am -
Thats how it starts. A small little "harmless joke" now Jesus is ridiculed to the point where its a normal occurrence... I see why these Muslims get mad when you try dissing their prophet. You let one joke slide expect a wave of jokes to follow after. Im not hating on them, let them defend something they believe in. Its like someone dissing your mum....a punk would sit their and laugh and call it a joke but then you get those who will beat yo a** for crossing that line and rightly so
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Comment by Mone on November 29, 2012 at 8:13am -
most important look at the racist Klan news station thats making this an issue. Mad cause its no Romney news. Yall knew the owner of FagFox News was Romneys biggest funder for his campaign.
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Comment by Byrd #41 on November 29, 2012 at 7:55am -
Guess what!? Everyone isnt a Christian!! So everybodys doesnt have to believe in God that aside it was a joke, laugh & have a nice day
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Comment by TH3MA$TAHM!ND on November 29, 2012 at 4:06am -
@Continue To Pause .. despite yur intentions of imaging a man suckin another man off, i think ur bi-curious for shootin ur way out the womb of a thick-boned woman named Henry, am i n the ballpark wit that 1 or has 1thug already beat me 2 the punch??
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Comment by Kristian Kondoski on November 29, 2012 at 3:54am -
i am just here to say @Zaza is sexy x
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Comment by Continue on November 29, 2012 at 3:47am
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@th3mastamind this is the first time I seen gay porn cause you sucking the s*** out 1thug d***. Either that or your secretly 1thug giving yourself props
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Comment by B_Dav90 #Coolin on November 29, 2012 at 3:29am
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Come on now ima Christian my mom is a minister and even she knew that was just a joke smh
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dayum 1THUG simultaneously killin yall .. niqqa forehead look like a diaper rash, but dat aint stopped ol bwoy 4rm bringin the ether!
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Comment by fan123 on November 29, 2012 at 3:21am -
Religious groups aka white al qaeda, fk em all.
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Comment by Continue on November 29, 2012 at 3:16am
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@kristian you rape baby kangaroos during your lunch break at work you sick Austrian midget
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