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Rev William Owens Harkens Back To Interracial Marriage Debate
Marriage Certificate, 1875
Six decades ago, the very arguments used today to attack same-sex marriage were used to attack interracial marriage. From the reliance upon God to prove their argument to how such marriages are unnatural, the same words are used now that were used fifty years ago.
For instance, the judge who upheld the conviction of the Lovings stated “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”
A California judge wrote in the dissent of the CA Supreme Court striking down their ban on interracial marriage that “The amalgamation of the races is not only unnatural, but is always productive of deplorable results. The purity of the public morals, the moral and physical development of both races, and the highest advancement of civilization . . . all require that [the races] should be kept distinctly separate, and that connections and alliances so unnatural should be prohibited by positive law and subject to no evasion.”
Of course, none of this matters to the National Organization for Marriage or their surrogates such as the Coalition of African-American Pastors and their leader Reverend William Owens. The above video has been reported upon before, and just has Owens actually stating his vitriolic and hateful views of homosexuality- views that mirror the views of people who once attacked and hurt Blacks.
Rev. William Owens, Founder and President, Coalition of African-American Pastors
Pastor Jerry G. Martin, Light of the World Christian Fellowship
John McCrutcheon, Pastor of Joint Heirs Fellowship Church
Bishop Harry Jackson, High Impact Leadership Coalition
Rev. Charles Johnson, Houston Ministers Against Crime
Pastor Ericka McCutcheon, Joint Heirs Fellowship Church
2 Responses to Rev William Owens Harkens Back To Interracial Marriage Debate
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Sameera V. Thurmond
August 1, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Instructive article by Bridgette P. LaVictoire on Rev. William Owens’ anti-gay circuit. I hope that the majority of African Americans DO NOT allow themselves to be pulled in by the rhetoric of people like Owens . I am unimpressed, particularly with Black pastors in the southern belt who rant against how people conduct themselves in the privacy of their homes OR between two consenting adults. EVERY religious zealot danes to speak for God. Religious leaders would have us believe that they have exclusive communications with God. EVERYONE has access to God if one chooses to focus on one’s personal relationship with Him. I question many statements emanating from the Bible because it has been re-written and modified hundreds of time to suit the culture or the political climate of the day, so to speak. Ninety-nine percent of the changes were toward political ends. Anyone who has really studied theology knows this. There was a book written by a woman that could/should have been included in the Bible but it was excluded in its entirety.
Again, Ms. LaVictoire says it right: the same language used by the Black pastors to castigate homosexualty was used to castigate Blacks as to why we should not have been educated, attend segregated schools for which Blacks, too, paid taxes, or why should be probhited from marrying whom we wish regardless of the racial element. Pro-slavery people turned to the Bible to rationalize slavery. God gave us free will with the hope of using it for the good of mankind. Slavery was not free will…it was IMPOSED will. In what way the imposition of one will upon another constitute free will? How can women develop their free will if men keep imposing THEIR will upon them?
We must stop focusing on these subjects that are between man and God and focus on those occurrences that have brought about the deterioration of the various Black communities, where applicable. The skyrocketing use and sales of drugs with and to each other; the early indulgence of sex resulting in the birth of babies to the most impoverished and undereducated population in the America! Homosexuality has not incurred the deterioration in the Black communities; misdirected or failed leadership has! Moreover, why do Owens and a few other ministers feel that President Obama owes THEM a personal meeting? Get in line with the rest of those seeking the same gain. Owens says the President feels that he has Blacks in his pocket. I say YOU feel that he should be in your pocket simply because of what appears to be your style of extortion. LET THE PRESIDENT ALONE! He has enough Black-hating Americans on his case!
Bridgette P. LaVictoire
August 1, 2012 at 2:00 pm
Thank you Sameera. I spent many years living in Brunswick, GA furious over how poor and downtrodden people were. While there, I saw why. Again, thank you.