This is a surprise to me. I just assumed that the NAACP was fighting the good fight with us. Just last march NAACP National Board Chair Julian Bond gave a remarkable speech at the HRC gala where he said, “God seems to have made room in his plan for interracial marriage, and he or she will no doubt do the same for same-sex marriage.”
But, apparently, the NAACP does not have a national policy regarding marriage equality. How do I know this? Because that is exactly that NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous told CNN’s T.J. Holmes in an interview this weekend.
In the interview, Jealous, while seemingly empathetic, outlines the reasons why there is no national policy. And those reasons are not very, well, reasonable. Jealous also outlines the reasons why the LGBT struggle for civil rights is not the same as the African-American struggle for civil rights. Which is a head-scraterh because Julian Bond also said this at the HRC gala, “I want to talk about civil rights tonight because I believe gay rights are civil rights.”
Jealous went on to say that he personally supports marriage equality. So if both the NAACP National Board Chair and the NAACP President both support it, how can it not be national policy? Maybe you can make more sense of it. Watch it.
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