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.
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