Black pastors group launches anti-Obama campaign around gay marriage
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A group of conservative black pastors are responding to President Barack Obama’s support of same-sex marriage with what they say will be a national campaign aimed at rallying black Americans to rethink their overwhelming support of the President, though the group’s leader is offering few specifics about the effort.
The Rev. Williams Owens, who is president and founder of the Coalition of African-Americans Pastors and the leader of the campaign, has highlighted opposition to same-sex marriage among African-Americans. He calls this campaign “an effort to save the family.”
“The time has come for a broad-based assault against the powers that be that want to change our culture to one of men marrying men and women marrying women,” said Owens, in an interview Tuesday after the launch event at the National Press Club. “I am ashamed that the first black president chose this road, a disgraceful road.”
At the press conference, Owens was joined by five other black regional pastors and said there were 3,742 African-American pastors on board for the anti-Obama campaign.
When asked at the press conference for specifics about the campaign – funding, planned events and goals – Owens said only that the group’s first fundraiser will be on August 16 in Memphis, Tennessee. But Owens insisted that “we are going to go nationwide with our agenda just like the president has gone to Hollywood.”
In May, Obama announced on ABC News that he thought “same sex couples should be able to get married.” The president had previously said that he opposed gay marriage, but said in May that his views were personal and did not represent a policy change.
In a fiery Tuesday press conference at the press club, Owens said Obama was taking the black vote for granted and decried the idea of similarities between the gay rights movement and the civil rights movement, an assertion made by the NAACP following Obama’s same-sex marriage support. [more]
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I want to know if these same AA pastors speak out against AA and Caucasian marriages in order to protect their culture. They probably secretly do, but can’t say it, because being “anti-gay” is still acceptable. Yes, I think you are anti-gay if you believe in taking a gay person’s liberties away from them. Just like if you don’t think black and whites should marry, you are a racist. Either scenario, that person is a bigot.
Here’s what I don’t like, Katrina — YOU.
The Anti-Chick-fil-A Jihad !
(This sinister jihad is part of the end-time “days of Lot” – coordinated worldwide by powerful unseen beings – that Jesus predicted in Luke 17. To see if you are part of this soul-damning craze, read on!)
Google “Zombietime” and click on “Up Your Alley Fair.” After recovering, Yahoo “God to Same-Sexers: Hurry Up” on the “ucmpage” listing (even Jesus told Judas to hurry up – John 13:27). Also Yahoo “Dangerous Radicals of the Religious Right.”
Read this before the predicted California earthquake happens a la Rev.16:19 (“the cities of the nations fell”) – and before hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts and other disasters occur! The fast-moving goal of Gaydom is to quietly sneak its depravity on to every Main Street on earth while normal folks stay asleep and do nothing. I wonder how soon San Francisco’s underground saint – San Andreas – will get a big jolt out of the public gay porn that goes on over his head in “Madam” Nancy Pelosi’s brothel district in front of children! Not one to mince words, Jesus said in Mark 9:42 that anyone hurting a child in any way deserves to be hanged and have his body thrown into the ocean!
It’s far from coincidental that the more America elevates gays and senseless violence (see the predicted “days” of “Lot” and “Noah” in Luke 17), the more the cost of gas, food etc. goes up! If America is smart, it will pick up the big dust-covered book everyone owns and almost never reads – no, not the Sears catalog – and find out that the One who made the universe has some rights too! (Also Google “Obama Fulfilling the Bible.”)
Gays like to say that Jesus didn’t explicitly mention homosexuality. Well, when gays are about to have a birthday, they don’t talk about all the things they don’t want. Instead they speak positively about what they’d like to receive. In the same manner Jesus, instead of negatively listing every sexual variation and perversion that He knew mankind would invent, avoided an endless list of “thou-shall-nots” and positively stated that marriage was created for only one man and one woman. BTW, by fulfilling the same “days of Lot,” gays are actually hurrying up the return of Christ as Judge and helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(Obama and his porn-protecting California friends – including Brown and Pelosi – did NOT approve of this message.)
Thanks for your post, Sally. Unfortunately, for most of the posters on this blog, they will not repent until it is too late for them. “Seek the LORD while He may be found.” As Jesus told Faustina, He was coming soon. He urged us to seek His mercy, because after that, He said, will come the time of justice. I’m afraid, Sally, that many of these posters are so entrenched in their errant ways and too proud to listen to the authentic voice of Jesus as mediated through the Church’s Magisterial teachings that they are, most most unfortunately, lost causes. We have to save those that are willing to be saved, remembering Jesus’s instructions to shake the dust off our sandals and move to the next town if this town was not receptive to the truth.
I commend the Rev. Owens and the Coalition of African American Pastors for defending the sacrament of marriage as God gave us in scripture in the old and new testament traditions. Obama is telling God that he knows best. I need votes. If the liberals campained against the ten commandments, Obama would go alone with them to get their vote. What an abomination!
Gosh! It would be great if these same Pastors spoke out in the African-American community about drugs, unwed teen moms, staying in school and out of jail. Why not unite to begin with their churches promoting family church attendance.
Elizabeth — I like your ideas. The most important one, though, is family intactness and minimizing the out-of-wedlock births. Virtually all of the travail in the African-American community can be explained by the very high (72%) out-of-wedlock birth rate. Kids so born, especially being raised in bad inner-city neighborhoods, truly do not have much of a chance of avoiding drug abuse and incarceration. Yes, please let’s speak out against premarital sex, in favor of men taking responsiblity and marrying the woman if they get her pregnant, and against divorce.