LongTermGuy
03-13-2015, 12:20 AM
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The president of a black pastors coalition has expressed his anger that President Barack Obama compared the civil rights movement to that for same-sex marriage at the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march, when black American citizens were beaten while demanding voting rights they were being denied.
“Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was 30 years ago,” Obama said (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/08/obama-to-selma-crowd-ask-your-gay-friends-if-its-easier-to-be-out-and-proud/) in Selma, Alabama, on Saturday, as he characterized the movement for same-sex marriage as another civil rights struggle.
“I marched with many people back in those days and I have reached out to some of my friends who marched with me, and all of them are shocked,” Rev. William Owens of the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) (http://caapusa.org/) told Breitbart News. “They never thought they would see this day that gay rights would be equated with civil rights. Not one agreed with this comparison.”
In February of 2014, CAAP issued (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/02/25/black-pastors-call-to-impeach-holder-a-dangerous-ideologue/) a press release in which it announced a campaign to call for the impeachment of Attorney General Eric Holder on the basis that he has violated his oath of office by “attempting to impose same-sex ‘marriage’ throughout the nation.”
“President Obama is a disgrace to the black community,” Owens said. “He is rewriting history. We didn’t suffer and die for gay marriage. We marched for opportunity, equality, justice, freedom from oppression. We are the true heirs of the civil rights movement. We have a new movement to reclaim the ‘real’ civil rights movement.”
BLACK PASTORS COALITION LEADER: OBAMA’S COMPARISON OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE STRUGGLES A ‘DISGRACE TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY’ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/10/black-pastors-coalition-leader-obamas-comparison-of-civil-rights-and-gay-marriage-struggles-a-disgrace-to-the-black-community/)
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The president of a black pastors coalition has expressed his anger that President Barack Obama compared the civil rights movement to that for same-sex marriage at the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march, when black American citizens were beaten while demanding voting rights they were being denied.
“Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was 30 years ago,” Obama said (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/08/obama-to-selma-crowd-ask-your-gay-friends-if-its-easier-to-be-out-and-proud/) in Selma, Alabama, on Saturday, as he characterized the movement for same-sex marriage as another civil rights struggle.
“I marched with many people back in those days and I have reached out to some of my friends who marched with me, and all of them are shocked,” Rev. William Owens of the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) (http://caapusa.org/) told Breitbart News. “They never thought they would see this day that gay rights would be equated with civil rights. Not one agreed with this comparison.”
In February of 2014, CAAP issued (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/02/25/black-pastors-call-to-impeach-holder-a-dangerous-ideologue/) a press release in which it announced a campaign to call for the impeachment of Attorney General Eric Holder on the basis that he has violated his oath of office by “attempting to impose same-sex ‘marriage’ throughout the nation.”
“President Obama is a disgrace to the black community,” Owens said. “He is rewriting history. We didn’t suffer and die for gay marriage. We marched for opportunity, equality, justice, freedom from oppression. We are the true heirs of the civil rights movement. We have a new movement to reclaim the ‘real’ civil rights movement.”
BLACK PASTORS COALITION LEADER: OBAMA’S COMPARISON OF CIVIL RIGHTS AND GAY MARRIAGE STRUGGLES A ‘DISGRACE TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY’ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/10/black-pastors-coalition-leader-obamas-comparison-of-civil-rights-and-gay-marriage-struggles-a-disgrace-to-the-black-community/)
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