Saturday, June 02, 2012

Is Redefining Marriage A Civil Right?

1963 Civil Rights March
Black pastors group demands meeting with Obama over gay marriage

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. [emphases mine...] -->Read more