Black Churches in LA meet today/move toward GOP [View All]

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I saw this piece on CBS news earlier this evening. This is the only link I could find covering the information that was reported on. Couldn't even find anything about it at cbsnews.com

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GOP Sees a Future in Black Churches* Social issues are binding the party with a group once firmly in the Democratic camp.
 
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The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson of Los Angeles says black preachers are moving toward the GOP.   Times Headlines
 
GOP Sees a Future in Black Churches

 

  By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — Black conservatives who supported President Bush in 2004 and gained new prominence within the Republican Party are launching a loosely knit movement that they hope will transform the role African Americans play in national politics.

The effort will be visible today at the Crenshaw Christian Center, one of Los Angeles' biggest black churches, headed by televangelist Frederick K.C. Price. More than 100 African American ministers are to gather in the first of several regional summits to build support for banning same-sex marriage — a signature issue that drew socially conservative blacks to the Republican column last year.

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The effort has proved so successful already that Democrats who make up the Congressional Black Caucus are quietly expressing alarm — and planning countermeasures.

"I am frightened by what is happening," said Rep. Major R. Owens, an 11-term Democratic congressman from New York who has been conferring with colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. "Our party is in grave danger. This Republican movement is going to expand exponentially unless we do something."

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Article link below--

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-pastors1feb01,1,2279196.story?coll=la-news-politics-national&ctrack=1&cset=true
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Am I the only one that thinks the GOP is using these churches and the ministers are blindly allowing it to happen?

What a crock!