Today a group of black pastors took another step in their principled stand against the NAACP and the President’s support of same-sex marriage.  The Coalition of African-American Pastors (CAAP) held a press conference in hopes of bringing more attention to their attempt to defend the institution of marriage.

The press conference was due in part to the group’s repeated attempts to secure a meeting with the President- which he has repeatedly denied – to discuss his endorsement for same-sex marriage and their concerns of what the President’s endorsement means for black Americans.

The press conference was also to highlight the NAACP’s support for the redefinition of marriage even though its core constituency – black Americans – overwhelmingly support traditional marriage.

Said the group’s president, Rev. Bill Owens, “The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People needs to be recalled to its founding purpose.  Black people face acute and urgent needs, from unemployment to education, family fragmentation, discrimination and crime.  [Therefore] we are calling on the NAACP, a beloved organization in our eyes, to reclaim its mission. The black church founded the NAACP, and it is not the organization for the advancement of gays and lesbians – whatever the merits of that movement. Return to your roots and stand with the black church on marriage. The black church in our eyes remains the conscience of America.”

Amen.

In regards to President Obama, Rev. Owens says, “We’re going to keep the heat on President Obama. He thinks we’re going away but we’re not.  We have requested a meeting with President Obama and until he meets with us, we are going to ask black Christians to withhold their support until he personally hears our concerns.  More than anything, this is an issue of biblical principles and President Obama is carrying our nation down a dangerous road. Many African-Americans were once proud of our president but now many are ashamed of his actions.  You have to stand on the Word of God regardless of your race or political affiliation. If the president is serious about his faith then why would he not meet with men of faith of his own race?”

Exactly.

No wonder so many Americans don’t think the President is Christian.

These pastors have a point.  The president has proven cowardly time and again by not meeting with those who disagree with him, especially in the black community.  He thumbed his nose at the NAACP earlier this month and now he’s attempting to run from a group of black pastors who simply have requested a meeting to discuss his views.

If this President truly believes in same-sex marriage, why not defend his position to those who disagree?  How strong could his views possibly be if they’re never challenged and he’s not forced to defend them on the merits? Like most people who hold views and opinions for tenuous reasons, he intentionally seals himself in an hermetically sealed, ideological echo chamber of like-minded cowards precisely so he won’t be challenged.

As for the NAACP, once again it proves its irrelevancy.  ‘Colored people’ have advanced to the point that they can now openly advocate for political causes that are diametrically opposed to their best interests, which the NAACP seems to do on a regular basis.  The NAACP openly advocates for abortion (which kills close to 1800 black children daily), same-sex marriage (which close to 70% of blacks don’t support), union-dominated schools (which it supports over and above a school voucher program which gives black families a choice in their children’s education and which blacks overwhelmingly support), condescends to black Americans as helpless regarding  voter ID laws and supports black victimology versus black uplift in regards to HIV/AIDS, crime and economics.

The NAACP has far outlived its usefulness.  It should show integrity and rename the organization the NAAPC- the National Association for the Advancement of Progressive Causes, because that is all it seems to do now.