Black pastors bash NAACP for endorsing gay marriage

From an article on the Daily Caller by Meagan Clark, "Black pastors bash NAACP for endorsing gay marriage"

The Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) announced Tuesday that it does not agree with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) decision to endorse the legalization of same-sex marriage. CAAP launched a petition last week to oppose broadening the legal definition of marriage. The coalition includes leaders of black churches and veteran civil rights leaders who marched with Martin Luther King Jr.

The NAACP voted to endorse same-sex marriage Saturday, and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous publicly endorsed gay marriage Monday. “The NAACP has abandoned its historic responsibility to speak for and safeguard the civil rights movement,” CAAP founder and President William Owens said Tuesday. “We who marched with Rev. King did not march one inch or one mile to promote same-sex marriage.”

Jealous called gay marriage a civil right, and said he believes “it is the responsibility, the history of the NAACP to speak up on the civil rights issues of our times.” CAAP says it believes gay Americans should have equal civil rights, but that it does not believe there should be a right to legally marry someone of the same sex.

On behalf of the coalition, Owens said, “We call on all Americans to respect the legitimate civil rights of gay people to be free from violence, harassment, to vote, to hold jobs.” Owens drew from King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail” to explain what he believes is the difference between a just and unjust law. According to Owens, a just law is a man-made code that squares with the law of God, and an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with moral law.

Owens also drew from St. Thomas Aquinas and said, “An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law.” “Same-sex marriage is an attempt to do the opposite of what Rev. King did,” Owens said. “It’s an attempt by men to use political power to declare that an act contrary to God’s law and to the natural law is a civil right.”

CAAP held a press conference last week in Memphis, where King died, to call on President Barack Obama to reconsider his support for gay marriage. “Our only weapons in this fight are the weapons of Rev. King: truth and love and courage,” Owens said.

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Illinois State Representative Furious Over a Bill

Rep. Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro), launched into a tirade this Tuesday as he complained about the amount of power Speaker Madigan wields. Bost screamed, yelled and threw papers as he expressed frustration about the Democrat-led plan to overhaul the state pension system, which would require the State to raise property taxes to fund pension costs that are now picked up by the state, ....pensions undoubtabley "negotiated" by Unions.

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In part Bost shouts “Total power in one person’s hands – not the American way!” The he threw several sheets of paper in the air and punch them as they landed. “These damn bills that come out here all the damn time, come out here at the last second!” Bost said as he threw the papers on the floor. “I’ve got to figure out how to vote for my people! You should be ashamed of yourselves! I’m sick of it!” Bost went on. “Every year! We give power to one person! It was not made that way in the Constitution!”

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