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 ...
I am having scanner problems, will post when it is fixed.
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.
BTW, thx a million for your service to the U.S.A.:-)
“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.
They are doing it to tell the black churches to give up Biblical principles.
...taking the down low road.
However ObaMao instructs them to feel.
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.
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”.
How many actual CURRENT dues paying members do they have?
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.)
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