Black
Leadership's MISPLACED PRIORITIES
by Clenard H. Childress Jr.
If you think there is not a
crisis in Black Leadership in America think again. If
you think the conscience of the afro-American community
isn’t being seared and we have become callous and
insensitive to moral truth please, please, think again.
..If you had not noticed the most heralded and
prestigious African-American organization in America
within the space of 3 months endorsed the most
destructive and decimating practices in the Black
community. The NAACP put there stamp of approval on the
practice of infant killing and marriages between men
with men and women with women. Abortion and same sex
marriage.
Have we come so far to be so
unfaithful? Have we gone so far left that we don’t know
what right is? In his prophetic "I have a dream" speech,
Martin Luther King said," Let freedom ring till
righteousness rolls down like a mighty river." Martin
Luther King draws a direct correlation between
righteousness and freedom. You can not have one without
the other. Today in America that righteous river is more
like a leaking faucet. The political and religious
hierarchy have continually allowed our core values to
diminish so that our God given foundational building
blocks of our society are being destroyed. The sanctity
of life and the institution of marriage are essential
components of any productive and successful society.
History has proven this fact over and over again. Refuse
to revere life and change the formula for marriage and
you are on the pathway to destruction. Rome, Babylon,
Greece would all testify to this truth. As an
Afro-American who has directly benefited from the
efforts of the NAACP and their courageous efforts, it
saddens me greatly to se this vast disparity of the
values of the for runners and those who carry the torch
today. With 14 million Afro-American children killed in
the womb since 1973, how can the president of the NAACP
censor a resolution to discus and caucus on this issue?
Every 3rd abortion in America is on Black women. It is
the most common surgical procedure performed on
Afro-American women. The prestigious Black institution
like Howard University performed a study that found
African-American women over the age of 50 are 4.7 times
more likely to contract breast cancer if they had had
even one abortion than compared with women who had none.
Another study in Dayton revealed that 81% of the
Afro-American women that had gone through an abortion
registered some type of psychological complaint. 60%
said they had feelings of guilt, 49% described feelings
of great remorse, 55% reported crying and bouts with
deep depression, 55 % said they could not forgive them
selves. Since the abortion industry goes to great
lengths to keep this crucial information from its
clients it is imperative that these facts are brought to
the forefront of discussion in the Black community.
Frustration does not adequately
describe my feelings about the misplaced priorities of
the NAACP. In September of 2003 Quasi Enfume writes the
owners of Kentucky Fried Chicken and demands they end
their current method of how they slaughter their
chickens. . Mr. Enfume is outraged over the inhumane way
Kentucky Fried Franchise slaughters their chickens! Then
6 months later he endorses the dismemberment of Black
babies in the womb at the rate of 1,452 a day, 4,000
babies over all. The board calls it a "historic
occasion." My question to Mr. Enfume and the executive
board of the NAACP is this, IS IT ABOUT CHICKEN"S OR
CHILDREN!!!!? In the same letter he requested a response
to his concerns about chickens being put to death. Then
months later he refuses to answer our concerns and those
chapters he represents about the slaughter of Black
children in the womb. Now if that wasn’t enough, not
only did they not answer our letter of request
(resolution) but it is censored. Not given due process.
All resolutions are to be printed so the delegates can
read with an explanation from the convention leadership
for the reason for its rejection. Not so it this case.
We were denied due process by an institution that’s
supposed to ensure I get due process.
My, my, my, how far left have we
gone that we don’t understand what right is anymore! The
issue of abortion will not go away till freedom rings
for everyone from the womb to the tomb. Now, who would
ever think that you would one day have to define
marriage? How is it that even what nature proves to be
unnatural we must now choose to redefine. With 70%of our
children growing up in single family households,
misguided souls try to minimize the key factor in the
home, the Father. Studies show the way a child responds
to their Father will determine their sexuality. It is
about orientation! If your orientation is distorted so
will your perception be of your sexuality. Therefore you
can not give civil rights to ones sexual orientation.
The orientation could and often (due to the state of the
home), breed perversion. " Their women did change the
natural use that which is against nature, Men leaving
the natural use of the women burned in their lust one
toward another men with men working that which is
unseemly Romans chapter 1:verses 25 & 26"
Dr. John Diggs, of Boston, stated on
the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther
King spoke 41, years ago, King didn’t march to
Washington for the rights of sexual orientation," How
true that is. There were certainly homosexuals and
lesbians in that day but the patriots of that day did
not endorse deviant behavior. They endorsed your Born
right. "We hold these truths to be self evident, that
all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, which are, life ,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness..
When you were born it was evident
what God endowed you with! To that end you have the
civil right to pursue that which is its natural use! If
you choose to change the natural use you have deviated
from the course of your civil right. Your orientation
was to match the equipment given upon birth, that which
you were endowed with. Dr. John Diggs also stated that
", the intestine is not a vagina." In other words "if
the glove doesn’t fit you must quit!’ The NAACP must
quit endorsing destructive and unfruitful behavior.
Finally, when I read the quote by a professor from
Harvard by the name of Bobo saying that Jesus Christ
never mentioned homosexuality.
We once again can see the deception
of those trying to get their agenda forwarded. Jesus did
mention the judgment of homosexuality. If I said to you,
I was going to make your home look like the twin towers;
you would have me arrested for making terroristic
threats. But if I said the same thing to you 5 years ago
you would have thought I was going to put you in a
penthouse sweet... 9/11 changed the meaning of the twin
towers completely in our minds. Jesus draws a similar
analogy with the use of Sodom& Gamora. First of all
Jesus was talking to a community where homosexuality and
lesbianism was unconscionable. So he referred to the
judgment of the sin of homosexuality in a terrorist way.
He equated their disobedience to Sodom so the people
would understand how serious there disobediences was.
Mathew 11; 24 states, But I say unto you, It shall be
more tolerable for the land of Sodom (where we get the
word sodomy) in the Day of Judgment than for thee. Luke
17:29 Jesus said, but the same day that Lot went out of
Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and
destroyed them all. Why did God destroy them? Because of
sodomy! Illicit sexual behavior.
So to say that Jesus never mentioned
homosexuality is erroneous. Jesus takes it a step
further and speaks twice about what God did to cities
that endorse the practice of such behavior. God
eventually destroys the propagation of sin along with
those who engage if there is no repentance. God loves
the homosexual and the lesbian unconditionally. Because
of that love they can be free. They will never know that
if we condone and redefine behavior to fit errant
lifestyles and call it a civil right. As one Black
preacher said, "Don’t use my skin to cover your sin"
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