‘Bewildered and betrayed’: DC black pastors challenge mayor over abortion advocacy

LifeSiteNews.com ^ | April 15, 2011 | by Kathleen Gilbert

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‘Bewildered and betrayed’: DC black pastors challenge mayor over abortion advocacy

by Kathleen Gilbert

Fri Apr 15, 2011 10:23 EST

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After the mayor of the District of Columbia was arrested for protesting a budget deal that banned taxpayer funds for local abortions, a group of local black pastors have expressed shock at the mayor’s pro-abortion “passion” and announced the planned opening of a new pregnancy center to help D.C. women avoid abortion

Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray was arrested Monday on charges of trespassing after he led a group in front of Senate office buildings to protest the deal restoring the Dornan amendment banning abortion funding in D.C., which is estimated to save 1,000 lives from abortion in the city each year.

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From the article:

"Abortion is the leading cause of death in the black community nationwide,” the pastors write.

Open letter to the DC Mayor by these pastors found at PDF link:

Open Letter of DC African-American Pastors to DC Mayor

[Persevero]

Step up, pastors, way to go.

I am so encouraged to see ordained men call their officials to account.

[JimRed]

Abortionists have done a better job of controlling the black population than the KKK ever dreamed of.

[wbarmy]

I believe it is too little, too late. The damage done by abortion on the black community cannot be fixed and will ultimately mean that they will be a sideline to politics in this country, just like Native Americans. Blacks are third in population in America and are being overtaken by the Asian population.

[wbarmy]

And in addition, how many of the pastors listed on that document whole heartedly supported Barrack Obama as President? KNOWING that he fought for third term abortions in Chicago?

[rcrngroup]

Step up, pastors, way to go.

I am so encouraged to see ordained men call their officials to account.

.....but wait.......

.....how many of the pastors listed on that document whole heartedly supported Barrack Obama as President? KNOWING that he fought for third term abortions in Chicago?

Absolutely true! How many of these same quisling black pastors voted for the RAT bastard 0dumbo & the RAT bastard socialist demoRATs in the last election? Kind of like 98% of the black votes were supposedly cast for the commie pig-in-chief 0dumbo! And the strongest core special interest constituency for the RAT socialist demoRAT party are the black communities & churches. I don't have any sympathy for the black communities wishing to remain enslaved by the racist, bigoted demoRAT party.

Likewise, I don't have any problem with 37% of the abortions being performed in black minority communities..... less liberals, less demoRATs, less welfare recipients, less crime. Where's the downside?

Likewise, the remaining 63% abortions, I would suspect, are performed largely on liberals as opposed to conservatvies. Again, where's the downside?

[topher]

There is a story that I heard of in the South where a KKK member wanted to keep white women from entering an abortion clinic. He was against white babies being aborted.

When he saw how many blacks were entering the clinic, he encouraged them to continue the work of getting black women to abort their babies... I don't remember where or when, just a story I heard...

[nolongerademocrat]

And don’t forget Hispanics, they are in the mix too.

[wbarmy]

The Hispanics do not get near the amount of Abortions that the black population gets. I also believe that there a lot more black abortions than reported. NY City does keep track of abortions by race, and in 2000 there were more abortions than live births in that community.

[nolongerademocrat]

Frightening statistics. Whew!