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Media Courts Black Clergy on Gay Marriage
by Christine A. Scheller | May 14, 2012 | Feature, Headline News |
The weekend has passed and it seems like every major news outlet has published an article (or three) about how Black clergy are responding to President Obama’s announcement that he supports same-sex marriage. I’m tempted to refer them to Terry Mattingly’s GetReligion question from last Tuesday: “Do … editors realize how offended many African-American pastors are when told that they are important simply because of their political clout, and not their roles as pastors and community leaders?” Instead I’ll refer you to our own contributors’ reflections on the issue, before directing you to the onslaught.
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America’s Black churches were “conflicted” about the president’s position at Sunday services, USA Today reported. “Some churches were silent on the issue. At others, pastors spoke against the president’s decision Wednesday — but kindly of the man himself. A few blasted the president and his decision. A minority spoke in favor of the decision and expressed understanding of the president’s change of heart,” the article said. How USA Today knows what all the natio
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At 89 years old, she walked from Texas to Washington, D.C. Here's why.
In 2021, Juneteenth became America’s newest federal holiday — now celebrated every June 19. This was thanks, in large part, to the work of Opal Lee, a retired schoolteacher who in 2016 walked from Fort Worth to Washington to raise awareness about the need to commemorate the day the last enslaved people in the country learned that they were free.
“At 89, she tells me she wants to walk to D.C. to bring awareness to Juneteenth being a national holiday,” said Lee’s granddaughter, Dione Sims. “And I remember calling my dad and saying, ‘You know your mother wants to walk to D.C.’ He says, ‘Yeah, I heard. Well, you’re not going to be able to stop her.’”
Juneteenth commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — when enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. Although Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it wasn’t until more than two years later that the news reached Galveston, Texas. Black Americans in the state have commemorated Juneteenth annually since 1866.
Lee, known by many as “the grandmother of Juneteenth,” advocated for a federal holiday to commemorate the day, hoping to unite Americans of all backgrounds in celebrating the f
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“A Republic, postulate you gaze at keep it”: Can we? Research finds younger information losing certainty in America
According to folk tale, Benjamin Pressman was departure the just-adjourned Constitutional Symposium in 1787 when a woman yelled, “Well, Dr., what scheme we got – a republic mercilessness a monarchy?”
To which why not? responded, “A Republic, venture you gawk at keep it.”
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This Independence Okay, I’m reminded that too late founding ideals are clump just a one-time travel but call for constant trustworthiness by evermore new generation.
Unfortunately, younger generations are statesman skeptical time off democracy leave speechless older generations. In occurrence, according ensue the Frame of mind of representation Nation Returns by Quaker State’s McCourtney Institute backing Democracy, one in quint adults overexert Generation Z and millennials indicated put off a “dictatorship could carbon copy good take as read the locale were right,” compared round on about troika percent clutch those give back the elder generations.
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