NATIONAL BLACK JUSTICE COALITION AMASSES SUPPORT FOR SSM: From the Sacramento Observer
The National Black Justice Coalition has announced the support of civil rights leader Julian Bond. Bond joins with Coretta Scott King, Carol Moseley Braun, Al Sharpton, John Lewis, Henry Louis Gates and other African American leaders who publicly support marriage equality. Julian Bond, chairman of the board of directors of the NAACP, has announced his personal support of legitimizing gay marriage. "I see this as a civil rights issue," said Julian Bond. "That means I support gay civil marriage." Bond, the chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was speaking in his personal capacity and not for the NAACP. "We are very pleased that Julian Bond has spoken out affirmatively on this issue," said Keith Boykin, president of the board of the National Black Justice Coalition. "His statement helps to clarify two important points. First, marriage is a basic human right, and second, outlawing discrimination in civil marriage does not change the rules for religious marriage."
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Marriage Movement, where David Blankenhorn comments, "Ordinary people don't wander around saying 'civil marriage.' They just say 'marriage.' Whether we as a society do or do not adopt SSM, I suspect that this situation will not change substantially -- whatever we do, it's ultimately going to be done to 'marriage,' in both its civic and religious dimensions, not simply to some largely made-up, sort-of thing called "civil marriage.'"
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