A lawyer and preacher???? What a contradiction in life styles!!! :-)
From Wikipedia:
Jackson was born on January 13, 1952 in Chester, Pennsylvania, the great-grandson of slaves.[2] His parents separated when he was a child, and he spent most of his childhood in a foster home.[3]
He eventually joined the United States Marine Corps, serving for three years. Following the Marines, he entered the University of Massachusetts Boston and received his degree in three years.[4] In 1978, he earned a law degree from Harvard Law School and practiced law in the Boston area for 15 years.[5]
He received a degree from the Harvard Divinity School, and became a preacher with the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Boston.[4]
Jackson taught administrative law at Northeastern University, and commercial law at Strayer University’s campuses in Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.
Raised a Democrat, his religious beliefs led him to embrace conservatism.[3] While in Boston, he appeared on several radio shows on WHDH, and hosted a nationally syndicated talk show, “Earl Jackson Across America.”[6]
In 1996, he joined with the Christian Coalition to head “The Samaritan Project,” an outreach program that distributed $500,000 to churches that were victims of arson. He served as a minister with the chapel of the Boston Red Sox for five years, and also served as the protestant chaplain for the Boston Fire Department.[4]
In June 1998, he was consecrated a bishop. Later that year, he and his family moved to Chesapeake, Virginia, and founded Exodus Faith Ministries.
On July 4, 2010, Jackson established Staying True to America’s National Destiny (STAND)[7] as a grassroots political organization, noted for its conservative stances on issues such as abortion, marriage, and government. In the same month, he made headlines[8] for his views condemning the New Black Panther Party in regard to voter intimidation.[9]
In 2012, he recorded a video appeal that generated national attention to blacks to leave the Democratic Party, saying it has abandoned the values of the black community and that blacks had developed a “slavish devotion” to the party.[10] He has spoken in black churches across the country on the issues facing the country and says he has received overwhelmingly positive responses