Black Clergy Wooed (by RW clergy) for Values Fight (anti-gay marriage)

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-pastors2feb02,1,932799.story?coll=la-headlines-nation
Black Clergy Wooed for Values Fight
At an L.A. summit, 70 pastors are urged by the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon to join white evangelicals in fighting against gay marriage.
By Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger
Times Staff Writers

February 2, 2005

Conservative black pastors from across California were urged Tuesday to join white evangelicals on the front lines of the nation's culture wars — particularly in the fight against gay marriage.

The campaign debuted at the 27,000-member Crenshaw Christian Center, one of Los Angeles' biggest churches, at a summit organized by ministers who backed President Bush's reelection last year and now are seeking an expanded role in the Republican Party.

It was the first of several such meetings set to take place across the nation in the coming months — an effort closely watched by GOP strategists eager to forge alliances with black churches long associated with Democrats.

As heads nodded affirmatively, the 70 black pastors in attendance Tuesday were urged to pressure lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington to oppose gay marriage — harnessing the power of churches that in some cases have tens of thousands of members.<snip>

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Amazing isn't it?

Join us so we can discriminate against human beings.

[htuttle]

2. The Moonies are throwing a ton of money at this

Moon has been specifically targeting Black clergy to back his Moonie Marriage Programs and his 'Tear Down the Cross' initiatives.



Tear Down the Cross
Why is President Bush supporting a group trying to convince African-American churches to literally throw their crosses in the trash?
http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=258

Update: The Old, Rugged, Torn-Down Moonie Cross
http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2004/update122304.html

It currently masquerades as the American Clergy Leadership Conference, which turns out to be a division of the Unification Church.

There's a quote from 'father S.M. Moon' right on the front page:
http://www.aclc.info/

[annabanana]

3. How do the preachers justify supporting torturers?

In what world is this "moral"?

[rocktivity]

4. This must be one of those GOP "manufacured realities"

While I don't doubt that some blacks are more worried about gays getting into heaven than their own economic survival and civil rights, I do doubt that there are enough of them to swing an election, mainly because I SERIOUSLY doubt that most blacks believe that GOP will give them anything in return.

:headbang:
rocknation

[asjr]

5. After decades upon decades of suffering from

discrimination it blows my mind to think they now practice it.