A Statement from the Coalition of African-American Pastors

We the board members and advisors of Coalition of African American Pastors hereby state our support the Federal Marriage Amendment and affirm our belief in the following:

1. Homosexual behavior is in direct contradiction to the teachings of the Bible.

2. The laws of our states and our nation have always been based upon Christian principles.

3. A government that sanctions homosexual marriage is clearly sanctioning homosexual behavior.

4. Since the United States is a democracy, the citizens are responsible for the actions of their government. Therefore, Christians in a democracy have a duty to try to prevent their government from sanctioning immorality.

5. A constitutional amendment is the only way to protect the nation from spiritually corrupt actions like those taken by the Massachusetts State Supreme Court, which found a “right” to homosexual marriage in the eighteenth-century Massachusetts Constitution.

Therefore, the Federal Marriage Amendment not only deserves our support, it needs our action! We are asking that black pastors in America encourage their church membership to write and call their Senators and Representatives in Washington and let them know we need the Federal Marriage Amendment. We must send a message to Washington and to our elected officials that we expect them to support this critical and necessary amendment.

As African American pastors we understand first hand discrimination and the wholesale violation of our civil rights. The overwhelmingly majority of African American Pastors strongly oppose same sex marriage. Many of us were involved in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and we strongly reject the notion that the fight for same sex marriage is equivalent to our struggle against discrimination. Further, we find it extremely offensive to compare the homosexual agenda with the civil rights movement for our basic human rights.