All The Nasties

If they could face it
I could take it in their eyes
Oh I know I’d make it
Their tiny minds
And sacred cows
Just fake it
If only then and only then
They would understand
Elton John – All The Nasties

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22 — One of the highest ranking African American religious leaders in California and in the country has endorsed YES on Prop 8.

Apostle Frederick K.C. Price of the influential Crenshaw Christian Center in Los Angeles hosted and led off a press conference with dozens of local African American religious leaders yesterday saying that “we shouldn’t do anything to jeopardize the future of our family and our children.” The press conference opened with 50 African American and Latino pastors from greater Los Angeles, all standing up individually to express their support for YES on Proposition 8.

Joining Dr. Price in supporting YES on Prop 8 was Dr. Beverly “Vam” Crawford, Senior Pastor of Bible Enrichment Fellowship Int’l Church, and Bishop Frank Stewart of the Zoe Christian Fellowship in Los Angeles. Dr. Crawford reminded the two hundred supporters gathered for the event that “we must do what is right and stand for our children. We cannot afford to let this affect our babies in our schools.”

In 1924 the state of Virginia enacted a statute entitled “An Act to Preserve Racial Integrity”. The statute proclaimed no white person could marry anyone other than a white person. The law made it a punishable crime not only to enter into an interracial marriage in the State of Virginia, but it also criminalized interracial marriages conducted outside the state with the intent of evading Virginia’s prohibition. In addition the law stated that children born out of a interracial marriage were deemed in the eyes of the State of Virginia to be illegitimate and without the protections and privileges accorded to the children of lawfully wedded parents. The law remained on the books till 1967.

A state judge at the time said “Almighty God created the races of White, Black, Yellow, Malay, and Red, and He placed them on separate continents.” “And but for the interference with His arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages.” “The fact that He separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”

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