Quote from Blacknews.com “The National Church of Bey, an organization that recently formed the new religion Beyism (based on pop star Beyoncé Knowles), is a real organization based in Atlanta, Georgia. Although Beyoncé herself is not believed to be a part of it, she is the foundation of it and has so far not made a statement denouncing it.”

Good grief. Elvis Presley even had the sense enough to denounce the people who kept trying to deify him by calling him “The King.”

I’m going to take just a moment out and go there, and it’s not because I’m “hating on homosexuals,” but I’m going there just because this most definitively sounds like something that can only come out of that community.

No disrespected intended to the founder, Pauline John Andrews, if that is not the case; but this National Church of Bey sounds like about the “gayest” thing I’ve ever heard of in my life.

Right here and now, I want to do what one of my blogging constituents does and say “Drops mic and walks from stage, dripping Blackness,” but I won’t.

It’s all good, we like to say.

Is it “all” good? Really?

Needless to say, there are some folks, particularly of the male persuasion, who seem to be having quite a few serious envy issues when it comes to Black women, so it wouldn’t be beyond some of them to start worshiping certain Black women whom they will never come close to, let alone close to being.

Michelle Obama, well yes … we’re well aware that it is not only unfair, but against the law, to mistreat or “pick on” gay people; but once she and her husband, our illustrious President Barack Obama, came out in full support of the gay community, they could have done us all a favor and left it at that.

Here’s where it all gets a little “funky.”

Way back when, when our First Lady stated -in public- that Mrs. Carter was a “role model” of some kind…we had to ask the first and most obvious question in response to that – “For whose daughters, yours?“

I personally respect Mrs. Obama’s personal choices, even if I don’t agree with them and even if they don’t represent the entire nation — however, I can’t begin to fathom her daughters, either Malia or Sasha, snaking around wilded-out and dry-humping a stage, and calling themselves names like “Sasha Fierce” while they do it. It goes without saying that if the Obama girls did do it, all considered, it’s pretty certain that the First Mom of the United States and the First Dad, would happily embrace it and accept it as ‘their chosen profession of choice.’

BUT if I recall correctly, and I do, a certain Michelle Obama who had not yet been blinged out with celebrity glitterati and a wet-dry vac over homosexuality did, indeed, shut the front door to Beyonce back in the early years; notably enough, on the day that “Ms Fierce” strolled up to the White House unannounced, bearing gifts and thinking her name alone was supposed to get her past the Secret Service and into private quarters. Didn’t happen.

Said the earlier and more grounded version of Mrs.

Obama “We’re trying to keep our daughters grounded.

” Or words to that effect. [Maybe they’re old enough to be ungrounded now?]

***shrugs shoulders***

How did Mrs. Obama get thrown into the middle of this conversation? Uhm, maybe that “role model” thing was mistaken for “role worship,” or “worship model”?

No, this is not her fault, at all … however, I can’t help but to recall the many ways in which Beyonce’s “image” has been likened to that of something above and beyond what she really is.

The types  of people who do such things as to dedicate entire religions to others who are in the same earthly dying state as the rest of us ‘non-believers,’ so much so that they deify their objects of worship as “up there with the gods”(role model and worship-style), are the same types of folk who would worship a head of lettuce if only it could wear Brazilian weave, get a Brazilian bikini wax, show some ‘scandalous’ skin and prove that its ‘fabulous’ thighs and sandal-ready toes, grrrlllll [*two snaps in z-formation*], have not been retouched or photo-shopped.

? Maybe there’s something in the soon-to-be released Beyble about the proper church procedure for Lettuce Head Worship just in case their self-made American Religious Idol, Reb Bey, can’t preach or serve communion that week ?

But we still don’t get the use of the Roman Catholic Christian cross in the background of this church promo.

Since when did “Bey” get herself crucified and still come up looking Jesus-Christ-picture-perfect?