Black & Latino Clergy Who Support President Obama On Marriage Equality

May 16th, 2012 - By madamenoire

Source: Black Voices.com

There were plenty of black ministers who spoke out against President Obama’s stance on marriage equality and the media was happy to interview them. But there’s another side to this story. There are black and Latino ministers who strongly support the president and his newly stated stance.

Support for marriage equality among African American and Latino groups has increased over the past few years. A recent Public Religion Research Institute poll found that a majority of Latino Catholics and a third of black Protestants support marriage equality.

See who these men and women of God are at BlackVoices.com

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http://www.facebook.com/mel.jfleming1 Mel JFleming II

As an ordained person of faith I support same gender relationships and marriage. There are many people in the American of African community who are gat and shouldn’t be invisible die to that. It’s a stereotype that needs to be addressed.
Anonns

Everybody can support it all the day long, still doesn’t make it right or take away the meaning of something that every human being from different walk of life live by. We will see how much secular America will become. Keep in mind, THE RISE AND FALL OF EUROPE was the fight between moral and secularism.
Nitty

People are confused
This chick at my job is religious n was mad @ the president but yet had the nerve to tell us that she’s attracted to girls..i can’t
Gimmeabreak78

Good for them. I’m glad that they realize there is a difference between living your faith and legislating your faith!
- Asher
  
  other groups are allowed to vote and legislate based on their beliefs( be it religious or not), why not christians?
  - Gimmeabreak78
    
    Faith is not legislated in this country, so I’m not sure what you are talking about. Just because one religious group feels some behavior is immoral doesn’t mean that said religious group gets to impose the doctrine of their faith on the rest of us in civil law. If that were the case, Muslims and Jews would have banned the consumption of pork and shellfish in the United States a long time ago.
    - Asher
      
      Legislating your faith? if you have a certain set of beliefs do you abandon those if you want to be a politician or if you want to vote? of course not. Everybody has a set of beliefs that are based on the morals they want to uphold. This can be religious or not. For religious people it may rely on faith in God, how is this any less legitimate than someone with no faith but still want to legislate what they believe to be truth? All im saying is that in the purest sense, it’s naive to think that someone’s faiths/beliefs/morals aren’t being used to legislate others.
      - Gimmeabreak78
        
        “For religious people it may rely on faith in God, how is this any less legitimate than someone with no faith but still want to legislate what they believe to be truth?”
        
        I am not debating the legitimacy of a person’s religious beliefs. The point is not whether the belief is legitimate or not. The point is whether it is legal or not to make a law with respect to a religion and impose that law on others. The Constitution says it is not.
        
        http://www.facebook.com/mel.jfleming1 Mel JFleming II
        
        That depends on the faith and God/dess you worship
        
        Asher
        
        I understand you’re point. My point is that non-religious beliefs are still being legislated with as much dogma-like passion as if they were religious. Every politician is trying to enforce a set of beliefs and every voter goes to the polls to vote based on they’re own beliefs which in turn can dictate the direction the country moves and have an affect on their fellow citizen. To many people act as if religious people are the only ones capable of enforcing a stance upon others when in fact anybody can do this, and mostly everybody does. I’ve noticed that many people who realize this tend to advocate for government to stay out of personal lives and marriages entirely, which means that government shouldn’t recognize any marriage and legitimacy of a certain type of marriage should be based on an individuals opinion and not what the government deems legitimate. I personally don’t see this as being possible but it’s an interesting thought.

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