What powerful statements! It takes courage for black American leaders to stand up against Obama. Thanks for posting . Repeating some of the highlights. ---mj
From Article-----http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14473
A BLACK MAN'S DILEMNA
"Why is a 55-year-old black clergyman protesting the convention that nominated the first black candidate for president?
Childress said opposing Barack Obama is one of the most difficult decisions his pro-life principles have required him to make.
While a recent poll found that 76 percent of black voters support Obama, other African-American pro-lifers have joined Childress in vocal opposition to Obama, including Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union, and Alveda King, pro-life activist and niece to Martin Luther King Jr.
African-American pastors—Levon Yuille, Kim Daniels, Gilbert Coleman, and John W. Stephenson—told The Washington Times they struggle to educate their African-American congregations on Obama's pro-abortion record.
Johnny Hunter of Life Education and Resources Network, pro-life pastor Stephen Broden, and Jesse Lee Peterson of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, have also publicly spoken against Obama.
Childress Continues----------
,"Then he heard a presentation about Margaret Sanger's project to introduce sterilization and abortion to the black community and discovered that abortion disproportionately affected the African-American community.
"I've never been as stunned hearing information before," Childress said. Today, hundreds of thousands of black babies are aborted each year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one in every two African-American pregnancies ends in abortion. According to the Allan Guttmacher Institute, African-American women are nearly five times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion.
Learning this turned Childress into a pro-life activist, he said.
In the past 13 years, he's collected plenty of colorful anecdotes along with becoming a pro-life leader. At an Ohio State University protest, counter-protesters rushed them from both directions so a girl holding a six-inch knife could run at the signs and deface them. "The knife refused to puncture the sign, which affected my group very much. They thought it was a miracle," Childress said.
Meanwhile, Childress' passion for social justice grows: "The more I walk with the Lord, the more I see a need for mankind to be free from any injustice that would be an impediment to their life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is unquestionably, as Martin Luther King said, the American dream."
For full articles-----------Childress is now running as an Independent.
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