Rev Al Sharpton on Prop 8

[mlerules]

Gakked essentially word-for-word from jimkeller's post from a posting on the L.A. Times' L.A. Now blog, who in turn snagged it from Southern Voice:

From the pulpit of Tabernacle Baptist Church on Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton called out the Mormon Church and other conservative faiths for mobilizing to support Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage in California while refusing to be as involved in any other social concerns.

“It amazes me when I looked at California and saw churches that had nothing to say about police brutality, nothing to say when a young black boy was shot while he was wearing police handcuffs, nothing to say when they overturned affirmative action, nothing to say when people were being delegated into poverty, yet they were organizing and mobilizing to stop consenting adults from choosing their life partners,” Sharpton told a packed audience on Jan. 11.

“There is something immoral and sick about using all of that power to not end brutality and poverty, but to break into people’s bedrooms and claim that God sent you,” Sharpton added.

Comments

[fearless-son.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[vonvoncake.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow. Go get 'em, Al!

[sidhefire.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that! I probably would have missed it in the news.

[redefining-self.livejournal.com]

While I'm with him in my interest in why so many social issues go by the wayside with many of these conservative churches I don't recall seeing Rev. Sharpton out in force against Prop 8 either. He may have been and I might have missed it.