Showing posts with label black ministers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black ministers. Show all posts

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Coalition of African American Pastors demand a meeting with President Obama over same-sex marriage

Money quote:
"I did not march one inch, one foot, one yard for same-sex marriage,”

Via Washington Times:
The Coalition of African American Pastors has demanded a meeting with President Obama to try to change his mind on his personal embrace of same-sex marriage.
The pastors fired off a letter this week to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. asking him to set up the meeting with the president, and painted their quest as a civil rights cause.
“I can promise you personally, as an organizer of the civil rights movement in Nashville, I did not march one inch, one foot, one yard for same-sex marriage,” said Rev. William “Bill” Owens Sr., founder of the coalition and organizer of the letter.
Pollsters have wondered how Mr. Obama’s decision to embrace same-sex marriage would play with various segments of voters, and in particular with black church-going Christians, who generally tell pollsters they support the president but many of whom are also opposed to gay marriage.
“Some things are bigger than the next election,” the pastors said in their letter.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Shocking: AG Eric Holder Planning to Teach Black Ministers How to Support Obama Legally

It's the Chicago way...

Via Beltway Confidential:
Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU will brief several hundred pastors in the African American community on how to participate in the presidential election — which the Congressional Black Caucus chair expects will help President Obama’s campaign.

“We will have representatives from nine denominations who actually pastor somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 million people, and we’re going to first of all equip them with the information they need to know about what they can say and what they cannot say in the church that would violate their 501c3 status with the IRS,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., told MSNBC today.