What Does Same-Sex Marriage And Civil Rights Of African Americans Have In Common?
Answer: Nothing! So why is the N.A.A.C.P. associating the legitimacy of African American Civil Rights with an Immoral Act? To support Barack Obama's choice in endorsing Same-Sex Marriage in a bid to get him re-elected!
N.A.A.C.P. Votes to Endorse Same-Sex Marriage
By MICHAEL BARBARO
The board of the N.A.A.C.P. voted to endorse same-sex marriage on Saturday, putting the weight of the country’s most prominent civil rights group behind a cause that has long divided some quarters of the black community.
The largely symbolic move, made at the group’s meeting in Miami, puts the N.A.A.C.P. in line with President Obama,
who endorsed gay marriage a little over a week ago. Given the timing,
it is likely to be viewed as both a statement of principle as well as
support for the president’s position in the middle of a closely
contested presidential campaign.
All but two of the organization’s board members, who include many
religious leaders, backed a resolution supporting same-sex marriage,
according to people told of the decision.
Borrowing a term used by gay rights advocates, the resolution stated,
“We support marriage equality consistent with equal protection under the
law provided under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States
Constitution.”
In a statement, Roslyn M. Brock, chairwoman of the 64-member board,
said, “We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into
law.”
A spokesman for the group declined to discuss a breakdown of how the board members voted.
Julian Bond, a civil rights activist and former chairman of the
N.A.A.C.P., said that Mr. Obama’s recent support for same-sex marriage
was “a tipping point” for many board members. He said the vote debunked
the myth that the black community is uncomfortable with same-sex
marriage.
“This proves that conventional wisdom is not true,” Mr. Bond said.
The practical implications of the N.A.A.C.P.’s decision are unclear.
Several of its leaders have already expressed support for same-sex
marriage, and local branches have repeatedly opposed measures to ban
such unions, most recently in North Carolina, where voters just passed a
referendum against marriages and civil unions for gay people.
The strongest opposition to same-sex marriage within the black community
has come from church leaders, whose opinions may not be swayed by the
N.A.A.C.P. In its resolution, the board appeared to be sensitive to
those objections, reaffirming its support for religious freedom.
The N.A.A.C.P. has been grappling with the issue for several years.
Among religious figures on the board, the issue was especially fraught
with meaning.
Maxim Thorne, a former high-ranking official with the organization, said
that “for certain people, it was a very long evolution and a very long
process of reconciling their faith with this, and coming to a very civil
rights understanding of marriage equality versus a theological
understanding of marriage.”
The group’s endorsement could potentially bolster support for Mr. Obama
with a key constituency: black Democratic voters who remain skeptical of
same-sex marriage.
Black and white Americans are divided on same-sex marriage in similar
numbers, according to the results of four aggregated polls conducted by
The New York Times and CBS News over the past year.
Yet there is greater opposition among black Democrats than white
Democrats. Sixty-one percent of white Democrats supported legalizing
marriage for same-sex couples, compared with 36 percent of black
Democrats, while 35 percent of black Democrats opposed any legal
recognition, compared with 18 percent of white Democrats.
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No one at the hospital ever said Bruce Folken's medical care would suffer if he didn't pay up, but it sure felt that way.
Folken, 62, went to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, Minn., on March 23 with high blood pressure, heartburn and a tingling sensation on the left side of his body. The retired sales executive for a greeting card company and part-time tax preparer was terrified he'd had a heart attack or a stroke. The doctors and nurses were great, he says.
Folken, 62, went to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville, Minn., on March 23 with high blood pressure, heartburn and a tingling sensation on the left side of his body. The retired sales executive for a greeting card company and part-time tax preparer was terrified he'd had a heart attack or a stroke. The doctors and nurses were great, he says.
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WASHINGTON
- Under a withering assault from the industry, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko is stepping down, effective upon the
confirmation of his successor, according to a statement from Jaczko.
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Rush
Limbaugh's ratings have dropped sharply in several major markets
following the firestorm over his comments about Sandra Fluke, Politico reports.
BREAKING: Cardinal Dolan of NY, Cardinal Wuerl of D.C., Notre Dame--And 40 Other Catholic Dioceses and Organizations--Sue Obama Administration
By Terence P. Jeffrey
(CNSNews.com) - The Archdiocese of New York, headed by Cardinal
Timothy Dolan, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., headed by Cardinal
Donald Wuerl, the University of Notre Dame, and 40 other Catholic
dioceses and organizations around the country announced on Monday that
they are suing the Obama administration for violating their freedom of
religion, which is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the
Constitution.
The dioceses and organizations, in different combinations, are filing 12 different lawsuits filed in federal courts around the country.
The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. has established a special website--preservereligiousfreedom.org--to explain its lawsuit and present news and developments concerning it.
"This lawsuit is about an unprecedented attack by the federal government on one of America’s most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one’s religion without government interference," the archdiocese says on the website. "It is not about whether people have access to certain services; it is about whether the government may force religious institutions and individuals to facilitate and fund services which violate their religious beliefs."
The suits filed by the Catholic organizations focus on the regulation that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last August and finalized in January that requires virtually all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that can cause abortions.
The Catholic Church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are morally wrong and that Catholics should not be involved in them. Thus, the regulation would require faithful Catholics and Catholic organizations to act against their consciences and violate the teachings of their faith.
Earlier, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had called the regulation an "unprecedented attack on religious liberty" and asked the Obama administration to rescind it.
“We have tried negotiation with the Administration and legislation with the Congress--and we’ll keep at it--but there's still no fix," Cardinal Dolan, who is also president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement released by the conference this morning.
"Time is running out, and our valuable ministries and fundamental rights hang in the balance, so we have to resort to the courts now," the cardinal said. "Though the Conference is not a party to the lawsuits, we applaud this courageous action by so many individual dioceses, charities, hospitals and schools across the nation, in coordination with the law firm of Jones Day. It is also a compelling display of the unity of the Church in defense of religious liberty. It's also a great show of the diversity of the Church's ministries that serve the common good and that are jeopardized by the mandate--ministries to the poor, the sick, and the uneducated, to people of any faith or no faith at all.”
Cardinal Dolan's New York Archdiocese filed suit today in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York. Joining the archdiocese as plaintiffs in the suit are the Catholic Health Care Sytem, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, Catholic Charities of Rockville Centre, and Catholic Health Services of Long Island.
In their suit, these groups name HHS Secretary Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and their departments as defendants.
The archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is being joined in its lawsuit by Catholic Charities of the Washington Archdiocese, the Consortium of Catholic Academies of the Archdiocese of Washington (which includes four parochial schools), Archbishop Carroll High School, and the Catholic University of America.
"This morning, the Archdiocese of Washington filed a lawsuit to
challenge the mandate, recently issued by the Department of Health and
Human Services, that fundamentally redefines the nation’s long-standing
definition of religious ministry and requires our religious
organizations to provide their employees with coverage for
abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization, even if
doing so violates their religious beliefs," Cardinal Donald Wuerl of
Washington said in an open letter posted online this morning. "Just as our faith compels us to uphold the liberty and dignity of others, so too, we must defend our own."
"The lawsuit in no way challenges either women’s established legal right to obtain and use contraception or the right of employers to provide coverage for it if they so choose," said Cardinal Wuerl. "This lawsuit is about religious freedom."
"The First Amendment enshrines in our nation’s Constitution the principle that religious organizations must be able to practice their faith free from government interference," Cardinal Wuerl said.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (AP Photo)
The dioceses and organizations, in different combinations, are filing 12 different lawsuits filed in federal courts around the country.
The Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. has established a special website--preservereligiousfreedom.org--to explain its lawsuit and present news and developments concerning it.
"This lawsuit is about an unprecedented attack by the federal government on one of America’s most cherished freedoms: the freedom to practice one’s religion without government interference," the archdiocese says on the website. "It is not about whether people have access to certain services; it is about whether the government may force religious institutions and individuals to facilitate and fund services which violate their religious beliefs."
The suits filed by the Catholic organizations focus on the regulation that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced last August and finalized in January that requires virtually all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations and all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives, including those that can cause abortions.
The Catholic Church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception and abortion are morally wrong and that Catholics should not be involved in them. Thus, the regulation would require faithful Catholics and Catholic organizations to act against their consciences and violate the teachings of their faith.
Earlier, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had called the regulation an "unprecedented attack on religious liberty" and asked the Obama administration to rescind it.
“We have tried negotiation with the Administration and legislation with the Congress--and we’ll keep at it--but there's still no fix," Cardinal Dolan, who is also president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a statement released by the conference this morning.
"Time is running out, and our valuable ministries and fundamental rights hang in the balance, so we have to resort to the courts now," the cardinal said. "Though the Conference is not a party to the lawsuits, we applaud this courageous action by so many individual dioceses, charities, hospitals and schools across the nation, in coordination with the law firm of Jones Day. It is also a compelling display of the unity of the Church in defense of religious liberty. It's also a great show of the diversity of the Church's ministries that serve the common good and that are jeopardized by the mandate--ministries to the poor, the sick, and the uneducated, to people of any faith or no faith at all.”
Cardinal Dolan's New York Archdiocese filed suit today in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of New York. Joining the archdiocese as plaintiffs in the suit are the Catholic Health Care Sytem, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, Catholic Charities of Rockville Centre, and Catholic Health Services of Long Island.
In their suit, these groups name HHS Secretary Sebelius, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and their departments as defendants.
The archdiocese of Washington, D.C., is being joined in its lawsuit by Catholic Charities of the Washington Archdiocese, the Consortium of Catholic Academies of the Archdiocese of Washington (which includes four parochial schools), Archbishop Carroll High School, and the Catholic University of America.
"The lawsuit in no way challenges either women’s established legal right to obtain and use contraception or the right of employers to provide coverage for it if they so choose," said Cardinal Wuerl. "This lawsuit is about religious freedom."
"The First Amendment enshrines in our nation’s Constitution the principle that religious organizations must be able to practice their faith free from government interference," Cardinal Wuerl said.
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HUFFINGTON POST: Beirut Street Battles Leave 2 Dead
BEIRUT
-- Street battles between pro- and anti-Syrian groups in the Lebanese
capital killed two people overnight and wounded 15 as the spiraling
conflict in neighboring Syria spilled across the border.
The Conservative Byte
Today's Featured Article:
Top 10 Reasons Obama Won’t Be Reelected
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Today's Politically Incorrect Headlines:
- Easy Life in France Just a Dream
- Is Unity Possible?
- Businesses Must Fight
- Actual AP Headline: ‘Is GOP Trying to Sabotage Economy to Hurt Obama?’
- Obama Adviser Gets SHELLACKED on Fox News Sunday
- Chart of the Week: Taxes Soaring Past Highest Level Ever
- Organic Food Turns People into Jerks
- Biden Speech Falls on Deaf Ears in Ohio
- Obama ‘obsessed with being on Mt. Rushmore’
- FLASHBACK: Hawaii Lawmakers Pass ‘Islam Day’
- Teacher Threatens Student With Arrest For Criticizing Obama
- 53,000 Dead Voters Found in Florida
- Afghanistan’s Karzai thanks Obama for ‘your taxpayers’ money’
- Cory Booker slams Obama campaign for attack on Romney’s Bain record
- Liberals Say Public Broadcasting’s $445 Million Federal Subsidy Is ‘Tiny’
- Pawlenty and Boehner Agree: Stop Taxmageddon Now
- Left-Wing Environmentalists Solicit ‘Conservative and Libertarian’ Policies
- Army letting diversity trump winning wars
- Syrian opposition gets shoulder-fired missiles
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