Tag Archives: Group: NAACP

JIllStanek.com (includes video): Alliance Defending Freedom is defending Bomberger and the Radiance Foundation in U.S. District Court. Court documents and more details can be viewed online. | also posted at LifeSiteNews

LifeNews: Alliance Defending Freedom allied attorney Charles M. Allen with the Glen Allen, Va. firm Goodman, Allen & Filetti PLLC is defending Bomberger and Radiance in U.S. District Court in The Radiance Foundation v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division.

Christian Newswire: Alliance Defending Freedom allied attorney Charles M. Allen with the Glen Allen, Va. firm Goodman, Allen & Filetti PLLC filed Friday in U.S. District Court in The Radiance Foundation v. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division.

LifeSiteNews: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People threatened with legal action Ryan Bomberger for using its name and trademark to oppose abortion. Now the chief creative officer of The Radiance Foundation is fighting back . . . With the help of attorney Charles M. Allen, who is affiliated with the Alliance Defending Freedom, Bomberger filed a lawsuit in Virginia on Friday arguing that his work is protected by the First Amendment and “fair use” provisions of the law. He also questioned the NAACP’s priorities in using its legal resources to fight an activist trying to save black babies, rather than fighting the community’s pathologies. “Our inner-cities are crumbling, two-parent married families barely exist, 72.3 percent of our children are born into homes without fathers, and the NAACP wants to silence me for pointing out its support of abortion,” he said.

Des Moines Register: But Dedric Doolin, president of the Cedar Rapids branch of the NAACP, said most controversial issues are first debated at the local level before the national board takes a formal stance. In the case of same-sex marriage, that didn’t occur, he said.

NPR (includes audio): The NAACP recently took what was for some in the organization a controversial step, when it endorsed same-sex marriage. That move has now led some local officers around the country to resign — including the group’s most outspoken critic of gay marriage.

QCTimes.com: The Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr. of the Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines issued a statement saying he was stepping down from the NAACP national board and as Iowa/Nebraska state conference president “due to the NAACP’s position and support of same-sex marriage.

Christian Newswire: “Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda,” said Dr. Alveda C. King, founder of King for America and Pastoral Associate for Priests for Life.

One News Now: In an interview with OneNewsNow, Dr. Timothy Johnson — founder of The Frederick Douglas Foundation — says his organization is not surprised by the action of the NAACP, largely because of its support of abortion, which he says has been proven to represent “black genocide.” Johnson believes the NAACP is simply unwilling to address the issues that face black Americans.

Demetrius Minor at Townhall: On Saturday, May 19, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) officially came out and declared their support for same-sex marriage. According to USA TODAY, the organization saw the issue has comparable to civil rights. Ironically, this stance fails to comply with a large sector of the African-American population . . .

AP: Benjamin Jealous said Monday he hopes the group’s resolution supporting same-sex marriage will encourage blacks to support marriage equality as a civil right if the question is put to voters on the ballot in Maryland or other states.

Anchorage Daily News: But the Assembly at the meeting delayed certification of the election until at least April 24, and Hall said the inquiry ought to wait too. The postponement allows for the Election Commission to finish counting the remaining 13,434 votes and issue recommendations on just what an investigator ought to be looking for, he said.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Critics of the month-old voter-identification law are poised to challenge it in the courts and General Assembly.

Independent Voter: Linder says Paul being smeared because he is a threat to the establishment

Gerard Nadal at LifeNews: The word from LifeNews.com is that the NAACP is opposed to the Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2011, which criminalizes abortion on the grounds of race or sex.

NYTimes.com: In its infancy the H.R.C. effort, called Americans for Marriage Equality, has showcased three prominent black Americans in a row. That’s no accident.

The Washington Post reports on Obama’s latest nomination to the D.C. Circuit.

LifeNews.com: In what has become an annual tradition, a group of black pro-life advocates shared the pro-life message with participants at the annual NAACP convention. This time, the pro-lifers shared copies of a documentary exposing how abortion adversely affects the African-American community.