“A coalition of 34,000 black churches has cut its ties with Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) in the wake of its recent vote to approve same-sex marriage. In a statement at Charisma News, Rev. Anthony Evans, president of the National Black Church Initiative (NBCI), wrote that PCUSA’s ‘arbitrary change of Holy Scripture is a flagrantly pretentious and illegitimate maneuver by a body that has no authority whatsoever to alter holy text.’ ... In 2012, Bishop Janice Hollis, head of the Covenant International Fellowship, joined Rev. Bill Owens, president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP), at a press conference to condemn President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage. ... Owens and his group have called for the impeachment of Attorney General Eric Holder on the basis that he violated his oath of office by ‘attempting to impose same-sex “marriage” throughout the nation.’ CAAP was also highly critical of Obama’s comparison of the same-sex marriage movement to that for civil rights during the president’s remarks at the 50th anniversary of the ‘Bloody Sunday’ march in Selma, Alabama. ‘President Obama is a disgrace to the black community,’ Owens said. ‘He is rewriting history. We didn't suffer and die for gay marriage. We marched for opportunity, equality, justice, freedom from oppression. We are the true heirs of the civil rights movement. We have a new movement to reclaim the real civil rights movement. The LGBT community hijacked our movement, a movement they know nothing about.’ ... Last week, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who recently instructed Alabama’s state probate judges not to issue same-sex marriage licenses according to a federal court’s ruling, joined CAAP and other conservative leaders to defend the Texas constitutional ban against same-sex marriage. Moore and CAAP have also called for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan to recluse themselves from the same-sex marriage case that is currently before the high court, since both justices have officiated at same-sex weddings and, according to Owens, have demonstrated ‘lack of impartiality.’” “34K Black and Latino Churches Cut Ties,” Breitbart.com, Mar. 29, 2015 Comments are closed.
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