Black Loyalities end at Gay Marriage

Black Loyalties end at Gay Marriage
In pursuit of the truth - Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, Labor Day, Sept. 3, 2012

Coalition of more than 3,700 pastors to Obama: ‘No we can’t.’

This is another classic by Star Parker, posted in the Orange Country Register, Aug./12

Support for same-sex marriage is no in the Democratic Party preliminary platform. Once approved by the full platform committee and voted on at the Convention tomorrow, same-sex marriage will have the party’s formal support.

But as Democrats institutionalize the their support for same sex-marriage, their relationship with the party’s most loyal constituency, black Americans, becomes increasingly uneasy.

A new survey just released by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows 65 percent of Democrats support same-sex marriage compared to just 40 percent of blacks.

A group of 3,700-plus black pastors, the Coalition of African-American Pastors under the leadership of the Rev. William Owens, has moved to formally oppose the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama on this issue.

The group is spearheading a “Mandate for Marriage”* campaign to gather 100,000 signatures on a petition declaring support for traditional marriage. The petition also calls for Obama “to repudiate his assertion that gay marriage is a civil right.”

These black pastors are not in the business of politics, nor are they policy wonks. They are driven by commitment to biblical truths and the direct challenge to and rejection of these truths by social acceptance of homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage.

They don’t see biblical truths as academic points divorced from practical realities of life. They see them as the rules that sustain life. And they see the crisis spreading in their communities and in our nation as acceptance of these truths fall by the wayside.

HIV/AIDS is devastating black America… by homosexual behavior. According to the CDC: “In 2009, African Americans comprised 14 percent of the U.S. population but accounted for 44 percent of all new HIV infections … Black men accounted for 70% of the estimated new HIV infections among all blacks… Black men who have sex with men represented an estimated 73 percent of new infections among black men…”

Research abounds showing the importance of intact traditional family life in the academic success of children and of overall economic health… Brookings institutions noted that individuals who follow three rules - complete at least high school, work full time and wait until 21 to get married before having a baby - have a 2% chance of winding up in poverty and 72% chance of being in the middle class.

Since the 1960s, American family life in general has deteriorated with the departure from traditional values and the concomitant growth of government and the welfare state. But deterioration of black family life has been the most pronounced. …

George H. Kubeck,- cinops be gone *All pro-life organizations must assist these African-American Pastors. All of the above is a judgment on the so-called first Black American President. Pass out this letter or similar info at this week’s Democratic National Presidential Convention in Charlotte, N.C.. Include signs reading: STOP BLACK RACISM: 1000 BLACK BABIES ARE KILLED EACH DAY THROUGH ABORTION: 365,000 EACH YEAR: STOP BLACK GENOCIDE.