Black pastors bash NAACP for endorsing gay marriage

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

http://news.yahoo.com/black-pastors-bash-naacp-endorsing-gay-marriage-201708256.html

By Meagan Clark - The Daily Caller | The Daily Caller – 3 hrs ago

The Coalition of African American Pastors announced Tuesday that it does not agree with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s decision to endorse the legalization of same-sex marriage.

CAAP launched a petition last week to oppose broadening the legal definition of marriage.

The coalition includes leaders of black churches and veteran civil rights leaders who marched with Martin Luther King Jr.

The NAACP voted to endorse same-sex marriage Saturday, and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous publicly endorsed gay marriage Monday.

“The NAACP has abandoned its historic responsibility to speak for and safeguard the civil rights movement,” CAAP founder and President William Owens said Tuesday. “We who marched with Rev. King did not march one inch or one mile to promote same-sex marriage.”

Jealous called gay marriage a civil right, and said he believes “it is the responsibility, the history of the NAACP to speak up on the civil rights issues of our times.”

CAAP says it believes gay Americans should have equal civil rights, but that it does not believe there should be a right to legally marry someone of the same sex.

On behalf of the coalition, Owens said, “We call on all Americans to respect the legitimate civil rights of gay people to be free from violence, harassment, to vote, to hold jobs.”

Owens drew from King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” to explain what he believes is the difference between a just and unjust law.

According to Owens, a just law is a man-made code that squares with the law of God, and an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with moral law.

Owens also drew from St. Thomas Aquinas and said, “An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.”

“Same-sex marriage is an attempt to do the opposite of what Rev. King did,” Owens said. “It’s an attempt by men to use political power to declare that an act contrary to God’s law and to the natural law is a civil right.”

CAAP held a press conference last week in Memphis, where King died, to call on President Barack Obama to reconsider his support for gay marriage.

“Our only weapons in this fight are the weapons of Rev. King: truth and love and courage,” Owens said.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The Coalition of African American Pastors is a group of gay black men. They're scared of what legalizing gay marriage would mean for them. You know the feeling, Kip, don't you?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

The Coalition of African American Pastors is a group of gay black men. They're scared of what legalizing gay marriage would mean for them. You know the feeling, Kip, don't you?

No actually I don't. Tell me more about these "feelings" you talk of.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

No actually I don't. Tell me more about these "feelings" you talk of.

I can't, cause I don't have them. You're the one that's somehow scared of marriage equality. I'm not. I'm cool with it. Doesn't have any impact on me and my marriage. But it sure seems to scare the bejesus out of you. I've tried to figure out why that could be and can come up with only one explanation: you're scared that your gay lover will demand you divorce your wife and marry him instead. If that's not it, I don't see how two guys or two gals getting married has any impact on you and your wife. Or are you scared that your wife would leave you for a chick?

[Darnell 8,479]

I remember studying about some new states laws, when I was in junior high, removing any ban on 'different race' marriages. That was the mid seventies(when I studied, not when they went into effect).. I wonder how same sex marriage campaign will change, now that the NAACP threw their hat into the ring.

Edited May 23, 2012 by Darnell

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[Danno 1,228]

I can't, cause I don't have them. You're the one that's somehow scared of marriage equality. I'm not. I'm cool with it. Doesn't have any impact on me and my marriage. But it sure seems to scare the bejesus out of you. I've tried to figure out why that could be and can come up with only one explanation: you're scared that your gay lover will demand you divorce your wife and marry him instead. If that's not it, I don't see how two guys or two gals getting married has any impact on you and your wife. Or are you scared that your wife would leave you for a chick?

Well actually you are afraid of marriage equality yourself which is why you and the rest of you phony "gay rights" folks limit your "understanding" to homosexuals and not the millions of other people who also want to form marriage as their families would like.

In fact you are so plastic your team is still making the Bi-sexual choose -One or the other.

Sorry dude if you want a free ride go back to Huffington post.

[JohnR! 5,495]

Obviously these pastors have no recollection of a time when marriage was only between a white man and a white women, all other permutations forbidden.

Far more important however, is the fact they seem not to realize that the First Amendment completely precludes the need for their approval in this matter, our Founding Fathers having the foresight to ensure the new nation was and should remain secular.

Truly, anyone against same-sex marriage should simply just not marry a person of the same gender. Case closed.

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Truly, anyone against same-sex marriage should simply just not marry a person of the same gender. Case closed.

That would be too easy, to live and let live. Some people feel the need to have a say in how other people live their lives, whether it impacts them or not.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Truly, anyone against same-sex marriage should simply just not marry a person of the same gender. Case closed.

That would be simple. But there seem to be some who are afraid that either they secret gay lovers will propose to them or that their wives will leave them for some chick. So, marriage equality would have a direct impact on them and that's why they're worried about it.

[jaycali 415]

Should two consentual adults be given the right to get married? In my opinion, absolutely. That's why I support two people's right to marry regardless of race, nationality, citizenship, religion, social status, age (18+ obviously), sexual orientation etc, etc.

Should a church/mosque/synagogue/temple/ordained minister be allowed to refuse to marry homosexual couples. In my opinion, absolutely. That's called freedom of religion.

Bottom line, in a free country, I don't see any logical reason why two adult human beings who both consent should not be allowed to get married. As long as the "right to refuse service" is given to ministers, I really don't see what the problem is.

I equally support anyone's right to hold the opposite opinion.

Edited May 26, 2012 by jaejayC