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Does this mean the Southern Christian Leadership Conference gets the Mormon treatment?*

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We all recall how in the wake of Prop 8’s passage last fall, angry gay activists, upset at the election returns, attacked Mormons for their support of the successful ballot proposition.

With the New York Times reporting today that the board of the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is resisting efforts of its national organization “to remove the president of its Los Angeles chapter in response to his support of same-sex marriage in California,” I wonder if those activists will treat the Los Angeles SCLC this summer they way they treated Mormons last fall:

During the battle last fall over Proposition 8, an amendment to the State Constitution that banned same-sex marriage, the chapter’s president, the Rev. Eric P. Lee, was more than a tangential figure for the opposition. He was front and center at an opposition group’s large rally at City Hall and marched in the blazing sun for 15 miles in Fresno. Many other local African-American pastors prepared mailings featuring church leaders in support of the proposition and linking their views to Barack Obama, then the Democratic nominee for president.

Mr. Lee “was very helpful to us,” said Rick Jacobs, head of the Courage Campaign, a left-leaning political action group in Los Angeles that fought the initiative . . . .

“The black church played a significant role in Proposition 8 passing,” Mr. Lee said. “The failure of the campaign was to presume that African-Americans would see this as a civil rights issue.”

(H/t Instapundit.)

*Title changed to reflect an error in this post when first drafted.  Thanks to reader Deuce Gregory for catching it.

Comments

  1. “I wonder if those activists will treat the Los Angeles group this summer they way they treated Mormons last fall.”

    Don’t bet on it, Dan. Some minorities are more equal than others, in the eyes of the Dhimmicrat Party.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  2. Excellent Point, Peter!!! The Gay Lobby wont dare attack the “golden cow” of the movement. Even though the “Blach Church” had a significant impact on Prop 8, even the Gay Lobby wont touch it. It can be concluded by default that the “Black Church” doesnt accept the Gay Lobby’s attempt to make Prop 8 a Civil Rights issue. There is trouble in Paradise.

  3. Hey Racists,

    All the african americans in California could have voted no and the measure still would have passed. Hence, the African American vote was 56% yes, only 4 points higher than the whole state.

    Also, no group was as engaged in the strategy of this campaign more so than the mormons. If your interested in making arguments about one group versus the other you need compare apples to apples.

    Regardless, I think we’ve all learned that the road to victory is not to attack but to educate. Sorry that doesn’t fit the bomb them to hell ethos of this site.

  6. Don’t you have this backwards? The head of the LA chapter SUPPORTS gay marriage. It’s the REST of the SCLC, not the LA chapter, that would be the target of any backlash.

    Or am I missing something?

  7. I remain convinced that the gay liberal targeting of Mormons is a classic example of just how ludicrous their stereotypes of Christians are — inasmuch as they honestly thought Christians hate Mormons so much that Christians would help them, or at least stand back and say nothing, as they vandalized churches, mailed white powder, and tried to drive Mormons out of jobs and businesses.

  8. I wonder if the over-the-top gay backlash against Mormons hasn’t made evangelicals more friendly toward Mormons. If the Gay Left and the Islamists can become allies against the Christian Right, there’s no reason evangelicals and Mormons can’t join against the gay left.

  9. #7: “If the Gay Left and the Islamists can become allies against the Christian Right, there’s no reason evangelicals and Mormons can’t join against the gay left.”

    Excellent point, V the K. Plus, there’s the added bonus that after the Christians and Mormons achieve their objectives, the Mormons won’t lop the Christians heads off.

  11. On a similar note, the Obamabots are now targeting New Haven, CT. firefighter Frank Ricci for destruction. First Palin, then Joe the Plumber, now him.

    What are liberals afraid of?

  12. jason chan at #3:

    Hey Racists,

    All the african americans in California could have voted no and the measure still would have passed.

    Thank you, Jason, for pointing out — yet again — how angry and hateful the Left is by calling GayPatriot racist for daring to point out a fact. And thank you again for demonstrating how brain-dead the Left is by completely missing the point of the post!

    I think we’ve all learned that the road to victory is not to attack but to educate.

    I’m afraid you’re preaching to the choir here. You’d be better off spreading this message amongst your fellow leftists — especially those who boycotted and picketed busineses for employing people who supported Prop. 8.

  13. The no smoking, no drinking, no adultery, no excessive debt lifestyle gives Mormons an edge in obtaining security clearances. For that reason, there are a disproportionate number of LDS working for the NSA, the Secret Service, and other intelligence agencies.

    I say that just because it’s going to give the paranoid gay left fits.

  16. The gay Left won’t attack the SCLC or any Black Christian group, but only for strategic reasons, not because the Left respects Christians. That’s in keeping with the Left’s nature; it’s all about POWER, not principle. Otherwise the Left, gay and straight, would be the fiercest opponent of radical Islam, perhaps the most homophobic force on the planet today. But the Left doesn’t oppose radical Islam because almost all radical Muslims have brown skin and in the Left’s narrative only white Christians can be bigots. It’s a dangerously false narrative to be sure, but it’s the only the Left has so don’t expect them to jettison it anytime soon.

    (And I hope this comment isn’t showing twice. My laptop had a hiccup the first time I tried to leave a comment so I wrote it again. If this is a duplicate I apologize.)