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| NAACP President Benjamin Jealous |
The board of the N.A.A.C.P. voted to endorse same-sex marriage on Saturday, putting the weight of the country’s most prominent civil rights group behind a cause that has long divided some quarters of the black community.
The largely symbolic move, made at the group’s quarterly board meeting in Miami, puts the N.A.A.C.P. in line with President Obama, who endorsed gay marriage a little over a week ago. Given the timing, it is likely to be viewed as both a statement of principle as well as support for the president’s position in the middle of a closely contested presidential campaign.
All but two of the organization’s 64 board members, who include many religious leaders, backed a resolution supporting same-sex marriage, according to people told of the decision.
You KNOW this is going to get the GOP's panties in a twist since they were counting on the fact that Obama would lose support from the black community in response to his support of same sex marriage.
Oh look, another Republican plan fails to work. How completely unsurprising.
And as for the President, you know he DID promise to "fundamentally transform" the country. Looks like he is a man of his word.
It really gets boring listening to the GOP and the supposed pundits.
ReplyDeleteNone of them know what the hell they are talking about. They decide that most people are single issue voters. Crap. Single issue voters are moronic.
Of course the right wing love to think of disparate ethnic groups as monolithic because that is what scares them and also what make them bigoted assholes.
And to quote my ninety three year old extremely religious African American grandma (you know, one of the people the GOP thought would walk away from President Obama for supporting gay marriage)- "They are all crazy and blinded by hate of our lovely young President. And they need to find Jesus."
I just think they all really need to shut the hell up.
Bravo to the NAACP.
And as for the President, you know he DID promise to "fundamentally transform" the country. Looks like he is a man of his word.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mr. Gryphen. It's called leadership.
You can tell he's doing a great job by how many of the attacks on him are based on nothing at all but hate. The GOP has nothing on him, can not attack any policy decisions, cannot attack his military knowledge,and thanks to Breitfart, cannot even claim he was never at Harvard. So they are stuck with the birthers and the KKK, neither of whom will amount to a hill of beans when the votes are counted.
Delete+1 Sally
DeleteAlso, the GOP/same tea is now stuck with the Ron Paul fetishists (which is fine with me, if it helps elect more Democrats to office in 2012).
http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/152171105.html
ST. CLOUD - After years of quiet, relentless organizing, followers of libertarian-leaning GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul have exploded inside the Minnesota Republican Party, becoming its most potent army.
"This is one of the greatest states that I have witnessed, where I have seen the transition, where the enthusiasm's there," the grinning Texas congressman told hundreds of exuberant activists Saturday at the state party's convention in St. Cloud, where he won 12 of 13 open delegate spots to the GOP national convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. The 13th went to former presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann -- and only after a Paul supporter dropped out to let her have that spot.
In Minnesota, more than almost any other state, Paul forces have completed a historic party takeover. They proved their might Saturday, but also firmly established Minnesota as a remote GOP outpost nationally.
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(Someone, please pass the popcorn, thanks).
I really think President Obama cleared the whole issue up succinctly on the View the other day. I don't have the exact quote, but he said we should respect all religions' right to define their sacraments, but that in civil matters, rights must be equal for all.
ReplyDeleteThat ties it up neatly. Civil marriage with its rights and privileges an equal-opportunity state.
Churches don't have to recognize gay unions, or divorced people remarrying, or whatever, refuse to perform the ceremony. Catholics have their set of rules, Baptists theirs, Buddhists, whatever. But no one religious belief system can define marriage for all.
Separation of church and state. It rocks. Ot makes sane, fair sense. Sometimes I'm really amazed at the serious wisdom of the founding fathers as they hammered out our splendid Constitution.
Now if we can just stop the GOP from pissing on the document and calling it a religious paper.
DeleteThis is going to hurt conservative pundits assessment that Barack lost himself the black and Hispanic vote with the marriage issue.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see Ben Jealous, I see the man who demanded that Shirley Sherrod resign - the man who in a disturbingly and very revealing knee-jerk fashion instantly fell for BREITBART'S foul manipulated video of this hardworking, INNOCENT, public servant - to whom neither Ben Jealous, nor for that matter, President Obama gave the slightest benefit of the doubt.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm sorry, but as far as I am concerned, the NAACP, as long as Ben Jealous is its head, will forever be tarnished, and its pronouncements on any issue completely irrelevant to me.