Sharpton on California's Proposition 8
It amazes me when I looked at California and saw churches that had nothing to say about police brutality, nothing to say when a young black boy was shot while he was wearing police handcuffs, nothing to say when the they overturned affirmative action, nothing to say when people were being delegated into poverty, yet they were organizing and mobilizing to stop consenting adults from choosing their life partners.
There is something immoral and sick about using all of that power to not end brutality and poverty, but to break into people’s bedrooms and claim that God sent you.
–Al Sharpton in remarks at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 11 January 2009
[quoted in Matt Schafer, "Sharpton decries churches pushing Prop. 8", Southern Voice, 12 January 2009.]
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on Friday, 16 January 2009 at 03.30
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While he has his rough edges, Sharpton is not a static personality. He's undergone a lot of growth and development over the years. In this instance, I see someone making a principled stand at a time and place where doing so took some true grit.