Black Leaders Kick Off Clergy Conference, Sharpton, Jackson, others

Prominent black leaders said they will work to combat Christian conservatives they say have used gay marriage and abortion to distract from larger moral issues such as the war, voting rights, affirmative action and poverty.

The Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Joseph Lowery and hundreds of black leaders from around the country are focusing on mobilizing black voters for the fall elections. They kicked off a three-day black clergy conference Monday in Dallas.

``There are no gay people coming to our churches asking to get married,'' Sharpton said. ``But there are plenty of people coming with problems voting or their sons in jail.''

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Jackson said the mid-term elections, which will determine hundreds of congressional seats and many governorships, are a ``fight for America's soul.''

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focus attention on election fraud and the other miseries mentioned in the OP.

I heard that Dance Theatre of Harlem will be performing at the White House. This gives Bush and Laura another perfect opportunity to PRETEND that African Americans like them and don't hold the lies and election thefts against them. This will be one more showcase for Bush to "slap hands" with blacks and try to pretend that he understands life in the hood and urban-speak.

Bush's behavior at the funeral of Coretta Scott King was abominable. He sat sprawled out in his chair on the pulpit and laughed and carried on as if he was attending a Comedy Central show. His behavior disgusted me then and it will probably be the same this time, so anxious is he to convince African Americans that he "cares about them" while he stabs them in the back and twists the knife.

It is about time that African Americans began a nation-wide program to counter the racist filth that flows out from the Christian Right and their mouthpieces like druggie Limbaugh.