{"id":9173,"date":"2008-10-22T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_california_black_clergy_both_for_and_against_gay_marriage_speak_out\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T16:37:21","slug":"in_california_black_clergy_both_for_and_against_gay_marriage_speak_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9173","title":{"rendered":"In California Black clergy both for and against gay marriage speak out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Marriage is between a man and a woman,&#8221; said Dr. Frederick K.C. Price, who leads the 22,000-member Crenshaw Christian Center. He urged his audience to &#8220;stand with God in saying the definition of marriage must not change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few miles away at Lucy Florence Cultural Center in Leimert Park, a much smaller group of ministers &#8212; three, as it turned out &#8212; spoke against the measure. Among their arguments: that African Americans, given their history of discrimination, should not be taking away rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Same-gender marriage is a civil rights issue,&#8221; the Rev. Eric Lee, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Council of Los Angeles, said at a recent event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/politics\/cal\/la-me-blackvote22-2008oct22,0,6715854.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Marriage is between a man and a woman,&#8221; said Dr. Frederick K.C. Price, who leads the 22,000-member Crenshaw Christian Center. He urged his audience to &#8220;stand with God in saying the definition of marriage must not change.&#8221; A few miles<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9173\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,576,114,98,151,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}