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NAACP backs gay marriage
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Posted on 05/19/2012 5:11:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

NAACP backs gay marriage

By DONOVAN SLACK | 5/19/12 5:35 PM EDT

CAMP DAVID – The board of the NAACP, one of the nation’s oldest and largest African American advocacy organizations, has passed a resolution supporting gay marriage in the wake of President Obama’s public endorsement of same-sex unions.

“The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all people,” board chair Roslyn M. Brock said in a statement following passage of the resolution on Saturday. “We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law.”

The chairman emeritus, Julian Bond, had already pledged his support earlier this week as part of a coalition of black leaders trying to tamp down speculation that Obama’s support of gay marriage would divide the black community.

The resolution and statement Saturday specifically noted that the group supports “civil marriage” for same sex couples, while respecting religious freedom -- something the president also mentioned when announcing his stance.

“Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in the statement. “The NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people.”

The group has taken public stances against discrimination based on sexual orientation in the past. The NAACP opposed Proposition 8 in California, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and more recently, Amendment 1 in North Carolina.

Here is the full resolution released Saturday:

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: 1010RD

I am having scanner problems, will post when it is fixed.


101 posted on 05/20/2012 1:18:05 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: RoosterRedux
"NAACP owns up to 'downlow' lifestyle in its community."

This is the death knell of a lackluster organization that has not done anything to improve the lives of their black constituency other than make more brood mares and poverty pimps.

102 posted on 05/20/2012 1:50:55 PM PDT by Warrior Nurse (I am an American Fighting Man, fighting to keep our country free from despots and idiots)
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To: Warrior Nurse

BTW, thx a million for your service to the U.S.A.:-)


103 posted on 05/20/2012 2:01:11 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Sow the wind...reap the whirlwind!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Nazily doesn’t make sense.”

A few more years under Obama.....anything will make sense.

But seriously, thanks for giving me something to run with.


104 posted on 05/20/2012 2:14:17 PM PDT by Puckster
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To: Sub-Driver

They are doing it to tell the black churches to give up Biblical principles.


105 posted on 05/20/2012 2:40:51 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Sub-Driver

...taking the down low road.


106 posted on 05/20/2012 5:05:10 PM PDT by cookcounty ("We're all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young." -J Goldberg)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER
How do they feel about NAMBLA?

However ObaMao instructs them to feel.

107 posted on 05/20/2012 6:04:03 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: okie01

Really it’s the Marsha, Marsha, Marsha Law which can be enforced strongly by the government by enacting the Brady Law.

Martial Law—military, war, from Mars, the god of War in Roman mythology.


108 posted on 05/21/2012 6:31:27 AM PDT by madison10 (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. TJ)
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To: Vigilanteman

Yep.

The title is misleading. The truth of the matter is
“NAACP backs Obama, and tells all other blacks they must also, regardless of their values”.


109 posted on 05/21/2012 6:34:53 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Sub-Driver

How many actual CURRENT dues paying members do they have?


110 posted on 05/21/2012 9:29:24 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Biggirl

This is going to be a wink wink nod BS stunt. The whisper will be that obama just said that to get the money from homosexuals but he is really for “them”. (whoever them needs to be at the moment.)


111 posted on 05/21/2012 9:49:30 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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