NAACP follows Obama announcing own endorsement of gay marriage
The NAACP has voted to endorse same-s*x marriage today naming it an American civil right just two weeks after President Barack Obama publically declared his own support.
Voting 62 to 2 according to one senior leader, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s board of directors passed the resolution affirming opposition to any effort that ‘seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens.’
The nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization declared the position consistent with the equal protection provision of the U.S. Constitution.
‘The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure political, social and economic equality of all people,’ Board Chairwoman Roslyn M. Brock said in a statement following their vote at a leadership retreat in Miami.
‘We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law.’
Same-s*x marriage is legal in six states and the District of Columbia, but 31 states have passed amendments to ban it.
The announcement was quickly made public by the NAACP’s senior vice president for development Maxim Thorne Saturday afternoon on his Twitter account but he declined to say which two members opposed.
Promptly withdrawing support from NAACP.
Ahhh, the good ol’ NAACP. Useless as always except for Award shows. Questions. Name one GLBT’ community organization that has made a statement about the Hiv/Aids infection rate for Black Women, the mass incarceration of Black Men for non-violent drug crimes, the unemployment or under-employment in Black America? Oh, that’s right you can’t because they don’t give a flying frog about the Black Community or our issues and neither does the NAACP. But then again most of us already know who owns it and runs it. So why would their agenda be focused on the state of Black America. 99 out of 100 Black People in a room could be poor, starving, dying of HIV or headed to a life behind bars. But the 1 guy or lady who happens to be Gay out of the 100 gets to set the agenda and gets the support? I don’t have anything against Gay people but the NAACP needs to change their name if they are going to be concerned with the agenda’s of other groups more then the majority of problems we have.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!! Best post today!!! Funny how the gay community expects blacks to support them while ignoring the aid epidemic in the black community.
@Troy Daivs co-sign.
The black community priorities is so screwed up right now. And we wonder why we suffer so.
Hey! Why doesn’t the NAACP also support Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s niece, Dr. Alveda King, in her fight vs. black abortions?
This is the no. 1 killer of black people: abortion. Currently, 1,400 black babies are aborted each and every day. The other forms of death, AIDS, murder, cancer and heart disease combined don’t equal 1/2 of this horrible number.
However, the NAACP doesn’t try to support her, even though she’s courted their support for quite some time now.
Do we really run this long-standing organization?
Do for self or else!
Co-sign! Every since this announcement has been made, I question the effectiveness of this so called NAACP. The organization should change it’s name to the National Association for the Advancement for Civil Rights because this organization have long since abandoned the black community
And this pictures reminds me so much of black slave catchers recapturing escaped black slaves for their slave masters, keeping them in line in order to gain favor like the lap dogs they are.
Do anyone remember Travis Smiley that guy who tried to give the same Black agenda he had been giving us for years until we got a Black president it was decide by the black race that we didn’t have any issues that were important enough to be pointed out to the president.
Exactly right! Tavis was eviscerated for daring to hold Obama accountable. And now look at the state were in with high unemployment rates skyrocketing, increase on violence, job losses, shrinking black middle class, and now were being told to support the gay marriage agenda and reelect Obama because it would be worser under Romney, while having our faith and beliefs denigrated by gays and other liberals supporters. Expect lower enthusiasm moving forward from blacks because we’ve been told to be good little slaves and stay in our place, step aside, and don’t dare demand Obama to address your issues because Obama isn’t the president of black america. Yet ridiculous cover story of Obama being the first gay president is so much more ”unifying”.
Pfft.