*A Baptist minister and board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said May 26 it would have been hypocritical for the 103-year-old civil-rights organization not to pass its recent resolution supporting marriage equality, reports APB News.
Amos C. Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco and president of the city’s local NAACP branch, is a member of the organization’s national board of directors, which voted May 19 to oppose “any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens.”
“We came to this conclusion because the NAACP has stood for 103 years for the sole objective of fighting, advocating for, equal protection under the law for all marginalized citizens of this nation,” Brown explained in an interview on Interfaith Alliance head Welton Gaddy’s State of Belief radio program
“It would have been hypocritical for us — in the face of these debates and a lot of the brouhaha that has been going on — to have in the past stood for the rights and equal opportunity for blacks, who were different than the majority culture who were our oppressors, and then to turn around and do to other people who are marginalized for whatever reason, and though they are citizens of this nation are not accorded equality of opportunity and equal protection under the law,” Brown said.
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This is why the bible says judgement will begin with the church first? I’m a christian the bible says 4 ALL believers 2 LOVE the SINNERS….. But HATE the SIN….I work in surgery my co-worker 90percent r LGHT. They’ve know I have never ever treated anyone with hated, of any kind… I love everybody but, I believe homosexuality is a sin…. And 4 a preacher a man of God! if, he know his bible he should know this? Don’t preach hate, but, love… But if u r a true believer and stand on the word of God! The bible clearly speak against homosexual. The bible says with love have I draw you… My brother is gay, I love him very much but, he’s no I believe his life style is against the word of God..
Beatrice, this isn’t about who is sinning or religion for that matter. This is about making sure a particular group of people’s civil rights aren’t taken away because of how THEY choose to live their life. Now if Pastor Brown stood in the pulpit and stated he believe God supports marriage equality THEN you might have grounds to to argue base on what Christianity is “suppose” be about, but he’s not doing that. Here’s my question to you that I ask respectfully: Why would you want to stop someone from doing something that makes THEM happy and has NOTHING to do with you?