No Moral Compass: NAACP Leaders Reject Marriage, Declare Homosexual Practice a Civil Right

By Deacon Keith Fournier
5/24/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

They are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free

On Saturday, May 19, 2012, the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) met in Miami, Florida. They passed a resolution in which they rejected Marriage and declared by Fiat that homosexual acts are now a civil right. The NAACP Resolution is filled with the sophistry and verbal subterfuge influenced by the Homosexual Equivalency Movement.

Marriage is between one man and one woman

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MIAMI,FL (Catholic Online) - On Saturday, May 19, 2012, the Board of Directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) met in Miami, Florida. They passed a resolution in which they rejected Marriage and declared by Fiat that homosexual acts are now a civil right.

I know that such a blunt assessment of their corporate action will raise the ire of the leadership of homosexual equivalency movement such as the Human Rights Campaign. They immediately championed this move as some breakthrough for their redefined notion of "marriage equality". The phrase is code for the effort to destroy the uniqueness of true marriage by redefining the word.

The Human Rights Campaign calls itself "America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality." They are well-funded and committed to a cultural and social revolution. They poured massive amounts of money and human resources into electing the President who has now "evolved" his way out of defending marriage. Along with him they are committed to "remaking America."

They are at the forefront of the "Homosexual Equivalency Movement". Homosexual equivalency activists insist that all Americans MUST recognize a legal equivalency between true marriages and cohabitating practicing homosexuals or they will face legal punitive consequences. The Human Rights Campaign uses the Courts and the legislature to force this new America on all of us. They have the unbridled support of the Executive Branch of the Government. This Administration unilaterally decided not to enforce Federal Law, the Defense of Marriage Act.

The effort to equate how one engages in non-marital sexual acts with a member of the same sex with being a member of a particular race or gender (thereby making practicing homosexuals a "protected class" for civil rights purposes) is legally and socially dangerous. One is a status; the other involves a behavior and a lifestyle. To confine marriage to heterosexual couples is not discriminatory. Homosexual couples cannot bring into existence what marriage intends by its very definition.

The NAACP Resolution is filled with the sophistry and verbal subterfuge influenced by the Homosexual Equivalency Movement:

"The NAACP Constitution affirmatively states our objective to ensure the "political, educational, social and economic equality" of all people. Therefore, the NAACP has opposed and will continue to oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens. We support marriage equality consistent with equal protection under the law provided under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Further, we strongly affirm the religious freedoms of all people as protected by the First Amendment."

The last sentence of the resolution betrays the entire claim. The position officially espoused by the NAACP as an organization now excludes faithful Catholics and other Christians who know that Marriage is ontologically between one man and one woman. The NAACP leaders have aligned themselves with those who seek to compel Catholics and other Christians to violate their religious convictions. So much for the religious freedom the organization purports to affirm.

In his apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist, the Sacrament of Charity, Pope Benedict summarized the duty of Catholics when confronted with the assault on authentic marriage: "Marriage and the family are institutions that must be promoted and defended from every possible misrepresentation of their true nature, since whatever is injurious to them is injurious to society itself."

Those who support marriage as a lifelong committed relationship between one man and one woman are pilloried in the press. No matter where one stands on other issues, if you support marriage - as marriage - you are brushed with all the disparaging terms can be thrown at those who insist that there is any such a thing as objective truth in this age of moral relativism.

In order to help understand what is occurring let me borrow a Property Rights Analogy. It does not come close in terms of the magnitude of the danger we now face because persons and their flourishing are so much more vitally important than the ownership of property. However, it may help to unmask the tactics being used.

We still defend the private ownership of property as a "right" in the United States. Let's say a group among us decides that "private property" should mean that our land also belongs to the neighbors on adjoining land. Why? Because they decided that approach was better and simply changed the definition.

Then, imagine that they decided to enforce that private opinion upon the broader ...

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Mike Ruzza
11 months ago
Dr's King and Gardner brought tears to my eyes!! I have continually expounded to many of my black friends that MLK would have opposed Obama on abortion for sure. I just knew that the entire African-American community had not collectively lost their minds and faiths; even though they overwhelmingly voted for this madman in 2008. Yes, stand tall; take flak; and VOTE your conscience! Run Obama and his band of murdering, pillaging thugs out of town. Romney is 100 times the 'moral' leader that the fake Christian Obama pretends to be. His efforts to further destroy American with 4 more years of unfettered power is more than any of us can or should tolerate. Pray, turn to God before it's too late!!! God bless you all for having moral courage and fortitude--I KNOW Dr MLK, Jr is in Heaven proud of you both!!!
Theresa H
11 months ago
This is a sad time for the Black population of the United States of America and for all who believe God's Word. As for marriage being defined differently by different people throughout time," nowhere, all through time in the Bible does God endorse the homosexual lifestyle. In fact, He clearly tells us what happens to those who indulge in such acts in the Book of Genesis 19:1-29 (Sodom and Gomorrah). If that is not enough (?), one may read what we are clearly told in Rom 1:24-27; 1Cor 6:9-10 and 1Tim 1:10. If that is still not enough to "get" what God is telling us, then, well, sooner or later--like Sodom and Gomorrah and previous civilizations, we shall see what happens.... Ultimately, the Natural Law always catches up with us when we refuse to govern ourselves by it. As for differentiating between "government" and "Catholic," the Natural Law governs everyone --whatever our creed, philosophy, or just plain "my view." Lastly, "we, the people" who acknowledge the Natural Law have just as much "right" as anyone else to "vote" the Natural Law into Positive Law. In fact, no one, no government--be it of king, president, or "we, the people," has a "right" to ensconce in positive law what is always and everywhere wrong--what is contrary to the Natural Law--and such are homosexual acts.
MJGT
11 months ago
Jacqueline Corcoran, I doubt you are a Reverend Mother or even a sister, but I do know that your comments do not reflect the teaching of the Catholic Church.
StubbleSpark
11 months ago
This pretty much shows how civil rights, like unions, have crossed the line from advocacy to industry. Is there much purpose for a group like the NAACP in this world? Can we ever imagine them declaring victory and closing up shop?

You have hundreds of people who spend years in college preparing to work for this organization and their livelihoods depend on keeping "current" to maintain relevancy. Just like any other corporate entity they seize on opportunities to expand their market.

The only way to change their minds is to inflict pain on their pocketbooks and withhold funding and dues.

And we have every right to. This is no ordinary "civil rights" movement they suddenly find worth advocating. It has pernicious effects that go beyond mere opening up opportunities. It leads to close orphanages, closed churches, arrested pastors and thought police. No other civil rights movement has a history as oppressive as this.
Robert Burford
11 months ago
God does not stop people from sinnning but it is not a civil right to sin. Acts 15:29 says to stay away from illicet marriages and we have a duty to speak out and say that something is wrong Ez 33:7-9. My daughter and present boyfriend were watching a news documentary last night about how we treat homosexuals. The point it missed was that God loves each one of us and we should treat other with His. love. However, it is not a civil liberty to call a sin or illicet marriage a civil right.We love the sinner as God loves him but no earthly law can justify something against God's Law. Nothing is new. Just like Adam we try to be small gods and change the rules. Doesn't Exodus 20 sat we are not to have false gods before Him?
Michael
11 months ago
Rob I agree however in fairness to the church it has been under attack just about everywhere. in this country and when you are under attack there is a very human tendency to retreat. Jesus however never retreated. What He said about marriage was less popular then than it is now. In Ancient Israel you could divorce you wife by sending her back to her premarital home for just about anything. He boldly spoke out against that never worrying about whether he was popular or not and in doing so he changed the world. I believe we can do no less and call ourselves Christians. Remember though he was with out sin we are not. Peter denied Christ three times to save his skin. Its obvious to me that the Church like Peter with Christ's help will find her courage and will face the battle head on even if it leads to the Cross.
Rob
11 months ago
Michael, I would also contend that as the divorce rate started going through the roof, we were changing that definition as well. It's stopped meaning what it used to and by those changes I strongly believe it's opened the door to what we are facing now. I have yet to hear any explanation from our church leaders as to why they have been silent on all these issues for so long? Why did it take a bold move like this to get them to speak up. And when you consider the number of bishops actually speaking out, it's a very tiny minority. I am not talking about a canned letter printed with a signature block, I'm talking about speaking out.
Reverend Mother Sister Jacqueline Corcoran
11 months ago
NO ONE WILL STAND IN THEIR WAY, IF THEY'RE WANTING TO BE GAY! IT'S A LIFE STYLE CHOICE.
Michael
11 months ago
Marriage in this country has always been defined in this country at least as a relationship between a man and a woman. That is an historical fact. If we change the definition we change the institution. Since in most states homosexual relationships have pretty much the same legal rights as married relationships why is there so much pressure to change the definition of marriage. I believe it is an overt attempt to change the moral fabric of our country. Its not just an attack on marriage but on the traditional family as well. I admire the difficult stand the church has taken here. Its difficult because there is so much pressure from the media to accept homosexual marriage and the pressure is couched in terms of discrimination. This is nonsense. We aren't arguing that homosexuals don't have the legal right to be together they just don't have the right to call it a marriage.
Reverend Mother Sister Jacqueline Corcoran
11 months ago
I WILL NOT STAND IN ANY AFRICAN OR AFRICAN AMERICAN'S WAY IF THEY WANT TO BE GAY. THAT IS THEIR RIGHT TO CHOSE WHICH LIFE STYLE THEY WANT.

GOD BLESS
SISTER JACQUELINE

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