Black Pastors Protest NAACP's Acceptance of Gay Marriage

Huffpost Article

So this is something that I've never understood.  I'm a white atheist, so maybe I'm missing something, but the black religious community being against gay rights is one of the most bizarre things ever.  Supposedly this was a deciding factor in the Prop 8 vote in California in 2008, but there's been evidence that only around 30% of religious black people voted for Prop 8, temporarily banning gay marriage in the state, so that may not hold water.  There is a large movement in the black religious community against gay marriage, but since President Obama came out for marriage equality, the group seems to be getting smaller.

So... I'll give you the quote that bothers me the most: "This is supposed to be an organization for black people who were beaten, who were mistreated and who were enslaved," Owens told The Huffington Post. "You're advocating for something that's not normal, that's not natural. It's still out of line, it's against moral law."

First off, slavery is okay in the bible. 

However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)

There are guidelines on it and the bible was used as a justification for keeping slavery legal before the American Civil War.  So if you want to use bronze age fairy tales as your measuring stick, you shouldn't be upset about slavery is you are upset about gay marriage. 

Secondly if you take out the enslaved part of the quote, talking about people who were beaten and mistreated... hello?!  That's gays.  Blacks were treated like absolute shit, but gays have had it just as bad and maybe have it worse still.  Interracial marriage and sex are legal and hell gave us the POTUS.  That was illegal for a long time until Civil Rights organizations fought to make it legal.  Now it's more or less acceptable in our society unless you're a knuckle dragging low life who's really concerned about the amount of serotonin in people's skin.  Interracial marriage was also railed against from a biblical perspective, though even as an atheist who dislikes religion, these passages are iffy at best.  It mostly has to due with Hebrews and tribal things.  It's not as straight forward as the slavery passages.
So now you see a group of people who are fighting for their rights, like blacks did in the 60's, and they say, "Oh, it's not the same thing."  Bullshit.  It's the exact same thing and you are a hypocrite for not supporting the struggle for gay equality.

Also, if they are for biblical literacy, then they should not only be mad at the NAACP for supporting gay marriage, but they need to start campaigning for the deaths of homosexuals.

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

I'm not advocating for these things obviously, but it shows how ridiculous and hypocritical their statements are.  This problem within all communities is getting better.  The president has a lot to do with that and in 20 years a lot of the homophobes will be dead or barely participating in society, but that's a long time to wait.  When groups of people who had the same thing done to them claim that it's not the same thing, it just pisses me off.  They could be allies for more liberal causes if they would just stop believing stupid things.