Politics

NAACP endorses gay marriage [VIDEO]

Meagan Clark Contributor
Font Size:

NAACP president Benjamin Jealous publicly endorsed gay marriage Monday at a press conference after the civil rights organization voted Saturday to endorse “marriage equality” at a meeting of its board of directors in Miami.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People passed the resolution “as a continuation of its historic commitment to equal protection under the law,” according to a May 19 press release.

“It is the responsibility, the history of the NAACP to speak up on the civil rights issues of our times,” Jealous said. “We are both proud of our history and challenged by it — challenged to never allow threats to equality for all people go uncontested.”

Watch:

Jealous took a swipe at states like North Carolina that recently voted to amend its constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.

“As marriage equality has expanded to an ever-increasing number of states, there have been other states that have once again taken to enshrining discrimination into their constitutions,” Jealous explained. “I’d like to point out that our country has had a great history of always using constitutions to expand rights, and this development turns us in a dangerous direction.

The resolution states that NAACP will oppose and “continue to oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens.” The resolution also states that NAACP will “affirm the religious freedoms of all people.”

President Barack Obama came out in support of gay marriage almost two weeks ago.

Many African-Americans still oppose gay marriage, viewing marriage as a religious issue, not a civil rights issue. A Pew Forum poll found last October that 62 percent of Protestant African Americans opposed gay marriage.

According to the LA Times, the directors of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force applauded the NAACP’s decision at their own board meeting Saturday in Seattle.

“Today is a historic day,” Rea Carey, executive director of the task force, told the LA Times. “This is what leadership looks like in this country.”

A Gallup poll last year found that Americans supported the legalization of gay marriage 53 percent to 45 percent. This year, the same poll showed 50 percent of Americans supported it and 48 percent opposed it.

Follow Meagan on Twitter.

PREMIUM ARTICLE: Subscribe To Keep Reading

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!

Sign Up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
Sign up

By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use

You're signed up!
BENEFITS READERS PASS PATRIOTS FOUNDERS
Daily and Breaking Newsletters
Daily Caller Shows
Ad Free Experience
Exclusive Articles
Custom Newsletters
Editor Daily Rundown
Behind The Scenes Coverage
Award Winning Documentaries
Patriot War Room
Patriot Live Chat
Exclusive Events
Gold Membership Card
Tucker Mug

What does Founders Club include?

Tucker Mug and Membership Card
Founders

Readers,

Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight.

Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence.

We don't complain -- we can't stand complainers -- but we do call it how we see it. We have a fight on our hands, and it's intense. We need your help to smash through the big tech, big media and big government blockade.

We're the insurgent outsiders for a reason: our deep-dive investigations hold the powerful to account. Our original videos undermine their narratives on a daily basis. Even our insistence on having fun infuriates them -- because we won’t bend the knee to political correctness.

One reason we stand apart is because we are not afraid to say we love America. We love her with every fiber of our being, and we think she's worth saving from today’s craziness.

Help us save her.

A second reason we stand out is the sheer number of honest responsible reporters we have helped train. We have trained so many solid reporters that they now hold prominent positions at publications across the political spectrum. Hear a rare reasonable voice at a place like CNN? There’s a good chance they were trained at Daily Caller. Same goes for the numerous Daily Caller alumni dominating the news coverage at outlets such as Fox News, Newsmax, Daily Wire and many others.

Simply put, America needs solid reporters fighting to tell the truth or we will never have honest elections or a fair system. We are working tirelessly to make that happen and we are making a difference.

Since 2010, The Daily Caller has grown immensely. We're in the halls of Congress. We're in the Oval Office. And we're in up to 20 million homes every single month. That's 20 million Americans like you who are impossible to ignore.

We can overcome the forces lined up against all of us. This is an important mission but we can’t do it unless you — the everyday Americans forgotten by the establishment — have our back.

Please consider becoming a Daily Caller Patriot today, and help us keep doing work that holds politicians, corporations and other leaders accountable. Help us thumb our noses at political correctness. Help us train a new generation of news reporters who will actually tell the truth. And help us remind Americans everywhere that there are millions of us who remain clear-eyed about our country's greatness.

In return for membership, Daily Caller Patriots will be able to read The Daily Caller without any of the ads that we have long used to support our mission. We know the ads drive you crazy. They drive us crazy too. But we need revenue to keep the fight going. If you join us, we will cut out the ads for you and put every Lincoln-headed cent we earn into amplifying our voice, training even more solid reporters, and giving you the ad-free experience and lightning fast website you deserve.

Patriots will also be eligible for Patriots Only content, newsletters, chats and live events with our reporters and editors. It's simple: welcome us into your lives, and we'll welcome you into ours.

We can save America together.

Become a Daily Caller Patriot today.

Signature

Neil Patel