Are We Weaponizing Marriage? Kirk Franklin Says Yes On Cam Newton Podcast

Kirk Franklin has some interesting words for some Christians and their beliefs. The 54-year-old gospel artist/producer recently sat down with Cam Newton for his “Funky Friday” podcast and took a moment to call out “Western Christianity.” Franklin did not spare the feelings of the religion’s followers and blasted them for multiple reasons, including “weaponizing marriage” and supporting “problematic” celebrities. “I believe that marriage has been weaponized in Western Christianity,” he said. “It’s very much that ‘You living in sin, you need to get married,’ without realizing that marriage doesn’t fix sin,” Franklin said. He then spoke about his own marriage and the challenges they had to face in the beginning. “[Tammy Collins] and I have had to walk through deep waters of a lot of the bad beginnings of religious dogma,” he added. “That’s why it is very important for people to understand the fullness of faith and to not allow the culture of Christianity to dictate what God wants for them.” Franklin continued, “Don’t be no 30-35 year old single Black woman and go to the family reunion. All the older women are gonna do nothing but they gonna look at you and wonder and question you and challenge you. ‘Why you not married?’ It’s a prerequisite for identity and value that if you don’t have a man or you don’t have kids, that something about you is broken. Do you understand how dysfunctional these messages are?”

Source: Baller Alert