TVC Chairman Holds Marriage Summit At Prominent African-American Church

March 30, 2006 – Rev. Louis P. Sheldon held a Marriage Summit at Kingdom Builders Christian Center in Norcross, Georgia, last weekend to urge African-American pastors and lay leaders to defend their schools and legislature against the homosexual agenda.Kingdom Builders Pastor Jamie T. Pleasant, Ph.D., is taking a leadership role with TVC in helping monitor school districts and the legislature to make certain that homosexual activists do not highjack the Civil Rights Movement.

According to Rev. Sheldon, “There is a growing concern among African-Americans that homosexuals are trying to claim protected minority status and are highjacking the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. They realize that their struggle for equality can be lost to history if homosexuals continue to compare their agenda to that of African-Americans.”

In Rev. Sheldon’s speech, he quoted a number of key African-American leaders from Boston who rallied against homosexual marriage in 2004. Members of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston spoke out strongly against comparing the Civil Rights struggle to the homosexual agenda. Rev. Jeffrey Brown of Union Baptist Church in Cambridge, for example, noted: “I’m upset by the characterization of this as a civil rights movement. We fought too long and too hard to have any kind of comparison. Rather than a civil right, marriage is a social regulation that has always had restrictions. ... You can’t marry whomever you want to marry.” (Boston Herald, 3/8/2004)

In addition, TVC was involved in 2004 with the National Summit of African-American Pastors in 2004 as they rallied in Washington, DC to oppose the legalization of homosexual marriage. In September, 2004, the National Summit sent a letter of concern to the Congressional Black Caucus, asking that the Caucus support a marriage amendment to the Constitution that protects marriage as a union of one man and one woman.

TAKE ACTION: If your state does not yet have a marriage amendment that includes bans on civil unions or domestic partnerships, urge your state legislators to pass one. Use TVC’s materials on marriage to educate your legislators and pastors on this important issue. Access TVC’s Special Reports section on our web site for these reports: Special Reports.

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