‘Daily Show’ Talks With Anti-Gay Pastor About To Lose Church To LGBT Center (VIDEO)

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“The Daily Show” sat down (again) with James David Manning, the Harlem pastor who thinks President Obama released “homo demons” and is the second coming of Adolf Hitler, on Tuesday night’s episode to talk about his church’s financial problems.

Manning previously told correspondent Jessica Williams that Starbucks puts semen in lattes to enhance the flavor. This time around, he didn’t want to talk about lattes though; Manning wanted to talk about the “sodomites” coming up to Harlem, trying to evict his church.

“I have to say this as well, I don’t know if your audience can handle this. A lot of them came up looking for ‘black meat,'” Manning said, which he explained to mean “sex with black men.”

Despite her contempt for Manning, Williams agreed to find out more about the people looking to buy the church.

Spoiler: It’s the director of the Ali Forney Center, one of the largest agencies in America dedicated to LGBTQ homeless youth.

Watch the clip, from Comedy Central, below:

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  1. does he have an explanation for why god is testing him? has he compared himself to Job yet?

  2. Avatar for nydiva nydiva says:

    Dumb ass. I’m not surprised Rev Manning’s church is in financial debt. I live in Harlem and in the 90s, Pastor Manning had a large enough congregation to pay his bills before he decided to bash gay folks. Since then, most of his congregation couldn’t hot tail it outta there fast enough as the good Rev descended into what sounds like undiagnosed mental silliness. I hope homeboy loses that property. Woo Yoo!

  3. In the spirit of compromise, it may be worthwhile to pursue common ground here.

    I’m prepared to agree that it’s wrong that Starbucks,or any coffee emporium, franchised or independent, to put semen in our lattes - particularly because some of us like to pre-order them skinny. I’m not saying everyone has to agree on this, but I am saying that surely we can come together on some policy shift, for example, that Starbucks could provide it as an option, by, say, pouring a few hundred fresh ejaculates into a creamer that’s available at the fixings table. That way, it’s for each of us to choose. What kind of moron wouldn’t be pro choice?

    That would narrow our disagreement to whether Starbucks is in fact adding semen to my skinny latte grande without my knowledge and consent. There’s a problem here, but it may also hold he key to a solution. IMO the problem is captured in 3 consecutive words in the first sentence of this very paragraph: “without my knowledge”.

    I don’t know! And as to Reverend Manning saying HE knows, in order to pursue compromise any further, I’d need to know first hand whether Starbucks is, in fact, removing my choices by actually serving me semen-laced coffee products. So I hereby ask Rev. Manning, are you by chances any relation to Chelsea Manning? Or the any of the basketballing Mannings? Or Archie Manning, because in acting to work out the earlier par, we could then move on to next stage in this process. But is

  4. I’ll go out on a limb (or other appendage) and agree, but maybe the poor pastor is confused about what espresso ‘crema’ is?

  5. Hey, remember when the Gay-rainbow house was set up right across the street from Westboro Baptist? Maybe this is that secret gay agenda they always talk about…civil rights through real estate.

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