WWJD

Recently in my city a mega church marched against gay marriage. I don't claim to be a theologian, but I never read anything about Christ protesting anything, 'sept the money chargers. His love was boundless, prostitutes, thieves... now we have pastors driving Maybach's and passing judgement. Maybe the chior director should be made an example of ...

Thousands of Blacks March in Protest of Gay Marriage
The Atlanta Journal/Constitution ^ | 12/11/2004 | John Blake

Posted on 12/11/2004 1:14:37 PM PST by groanup

There they were — thousands of them, wearing long-sleeve black T-shirts with the words "STOP THE SILENCE" across the front.

Others were dressed in camouflage.

They marched along Auburn Avenue, through one of Atlanta's most-storied neighborhoods.

And they met some opposition.

About 50 counter-demonstrators lined the street, singing, "In the name of Jesus, hate has got to go."

And so it went Saturday morning, as Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church, a predominantly black megachurch in Lithonia, led a march from the King Memorial to Turner Field calling for a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.

The group departed from the King Memorial around 10 a.m., and they arrived in the parking lot of Turner Field shortly before 11.

As the 45-minute march from the King Center to Turner Field concluded, Long told his supporters, some shivering from temperatures in the 40s, that it was time for the black community to be heard.

"We can't be silenced," Long said to cheers in a parking lot outside of Turner Field.

"We are not marching against folks," he said. "We are marching for folks."