After NAACP's Gay Marriage Stance, Disrd And Discsn : NPR

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WHEREAS, the missn of the Natnal Associatn for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the polil, tnal, social, and enomic equaly of rights orr to elimate race-based discrimatn and ensure the health and well-beg of all persons; andWHEREAS, the visn of the Natnal Associatn for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society which all dividuals have equal rights whout discrimatn based on race; andWHEREAS,  2012, the NAACP voted favor of supportg marriage equaly; andWHEREAS, on July 26, 2017, the NAACP held an LGBTQ workshop as part of s 108th Annual Conventn on Baltimore, MD; andWHEREAS, on Augt 25, 2017, Print Derrick Johnson stated, "We pledge today to stand wh our transgenr brothers and sisters as we ntue to fight any efforts to dify discrimatn to law, " andWHEREAS, the Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transng, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny is sensive nature; andWHEREAS, the NAACP should be sensive and clive of members of the LGBTQ+ muny through NAACP trags and programs, cludg but not limed to, Natnal Conventn, CRATI and the NEXTGEN Trag Programs. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the NAACP shall enurage the promotn of diversy and sensivy trags to all NAACP trags and programs to enurage the cln of members of the Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transng, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny as active Civil Rights activists and fighters wh the NAACP. Angelo, the former print of gay nservative group Log Cab Republins, implied the NAACP was not behd the bill.

Those of celebratg their cisn to support marriage equaly mt now also step up on the anizatn's the weekend, the natn's olst and largt civil rights anizatn took the logil yet heroic step of publicly supportg marriage rights for gay upl. He asked me qutns about homophobia at the Air Force Amy. I told him about classmat of me who had been kicked out of school their fal year bee they were gay.

He agreed to step out personally to signal the directn he wanted the board to sent out a prs release praisg Gibson's personal stand on the ary ban and the march:NAACP Chairman Jos the March on Washgton Conmng US Anti-Gay Milary PolicyThe head of one of the natn's olst civil rights groups has joed efforts to repeal the ban on gays the ary. Gibson, natnal Chairman of the Board of NAACP and a supporter of the 1993 March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights not the siari objectns to Blacks the ary and those now beg voiced by opponents of repealg the ban. Here's the prs release we sent out:NAACP Jos Marchers to Urge Completn of Unfished Civil Rights AgendaWashgton, DC -- In a historic move, lears of the gay & lbian, women's rights and relig muni were joed today by the NAACP, the natn's olst and largt civil rights anizatn, supportg the Natnal March on Washgton for Lbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberatn on Sunday, April 25, 1993 Washgton, an unprecented cisn, the NAACP's natnal board of directors voted unanimoly to endorse the March on Washgton as the issue of civil rights for gays and lbians explod the natnal nscns.

"The NAACP supports efforts to end discrimatn agast gay men and lbians areas of Amerin life where all cizens serve equal protectn and equal opportuny unr the law. "Recent actns unr the fluence of Republin legislators have fostered an atmosphere of fear and timidatn, marked by a blatant, relentls and systemic attack on mocracy and civil rights, " the Louisiana NAACP said a letter makg a formal requt to issue the the legislatn noted: Senate Bill 159 to allow 17-year-olds to be held and tried as adults for certa vlent crim; Senate Bill 23 makg the secretary of state the only official who n terme lotns of alternative early votg s; Hoe Bill 648 that bans genr-affirmg healthre for mors; and Hoe Bill 466, referred to by opponents as "Don't Say Gay, " that rtricts the discsn of genr and sexualy public school classrooms.