Obama’s Big Mistake on Marriage
Thursday in Memphis, the town where Rev. Martin Luther King gave his life for civil rights, a group of black church leaders, many of whom marched with Rev. King, met to make a stand on marriage. More than a dozen pastors and civil rights leaders called on Pres. Obama to reverse his decision and to tell him gay marriage is hijacking the civil rights movement. Here is the video of that historic meeting. “I marched for civil rights and I can tell you: I did not march one inch, one foot, one yard, one mile for same-sex marriage,” said Rev. Bill Owens. “No right is a civil right if it’s not square with God.” (Bill Owens is also a liason to black churches for the National Organization for Marriage .) The pastors, part of the Coalition for African- American Pastors, released a statement signed by major leaders of the black church–including Bishop George McKinney, who is on the governing board of the Church of God in Christ , the largest black Pentecostal denomination, and
