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Jun 18, 2004
By Karen L. Willoughby
Call to worship at African American Fellowship
Robert Anderson, president of the African American Fellowship of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of Colonial Baptist Church, Randallstown, Md., leads participants in song June 13 during a call to worship as the AAF holds its annual meeting, this year at Gabriel Missionary Baptist Church, Indianapolis. The Fellowship meets the weekend prior to the SBC annual meeting at a local Baptist church in the SBC’s host city. Photo by Kent Harville
INDIANAPOLIS (BP)--"How dare you?" Brendan Saunders, a church planter at Freedom Church in Baltimore, asked rhetorically to people in the homosexual community. "To take the years of oppression enforced on the black community and trivialize it because you want to justify your sinful actions, how dare you?"
The claim that same-sex "marriage" is the 21st-century equivalent of African Americans' 19th- and 20th-century struggle for civil rights is even more offensive than it is wrong, and it is totally erroneous concept, said many participants at the National African American Fellowship prior to the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Indianapolis.
"I am intensely offended," said E.W. McCall Sr., pastor of St. Stephen Baptist Church in La Puente, Calif. "To place homosexuality's sin rights movement on the same platform as the struggle of African Americans for civil rights is appalling.