Reverend William Owens
*(Via Huffington Post) – Since the Rev. William Owens launched his national campaign in May calling on African-Americans to withdraw their support of President Obama because of his stance on gay marriage, he has claimed the backing of 3,700 black clergy and touted his organization as predominantly Democratic.
But Owens and his group, the Coalition of African-American Pastors, are drawing criticism from black leaders and the political left who note Owens’ long-standing ties with GOP politicians. They charge CAAP misrepresents itself as a nonpartisan grass-roots organization when it is actually backed financially by right-leaning conservative groups.
“He is the poster person of conservative evangelicals … who are trying to use this as an emotional wedge issue to divide the black community,” said the Rev. Amos Brown, pastor of the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco and a protege of the civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Owens has become an outspoken critic of Obama since the president announced in May that he was switching his position on gay marriage. The pastor has railed against Obama in cable news network interviews and has held a series of news conferences warning that Obama is in danger of losing black voters’ support.
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OMG…November can’t get here fast enough so these elections can be over…
What’s wrong with conservative ties? Most honest pastors share conservative values.
Russ, if we were using the word by its true definition: nothing. But redefined by the GOP, ‘conservative’ has become nothing more than a ‘politically correct’ way (no pun intended) of identifying certain ideals held by a certain melanin-deficient people group.
EXACTLY!
What would you consider the true definition? I firmly believe progressives and liberals have simply demonized conservatives.
How did progressive, liberal or conservative become ‘bad’ words? And just because someone is progressive (or whatever) in their view of something, why does that have to become their label? Unless you only want to be identified with a particular group or disassociated from another. This is what happens when we get comfortable with being identified by a label. How about I just do what’s right without somebody trying to tag me as ________ .
He looks like that stuffed animal from the movie Ted.