Maafa 21 distributed at AME convention featuring Michelle Obama.....

Cross Posted from Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 7/8/2012 3:35:00 AM

A pastor in the African-Methodist-Episcopal Church is expressing some disappointment following his denomination's recent national convention.



Joseph Parker, pastor of Trinity AME Church near West Point, Mississippi, attended the convention in Nashville, where First Lady Michelle Obama was the keynote speaker. He shares that the convention dealt with various issues, some that would be considered political in nature.

"Personally I'm disappointed at the fact that the life issue really, to my knowledge, was addressed little if at all in the general conference," Parker tells OneNewsNow. "This issue is a huge issue as it relates to our culture as a whole and the black community in particular, but I find that it wasn't addressed much."

Parker was part of a small group that distributed about 1,600 copies of Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America, a DVD that carefully documents how Planned Parenthood and other abortion-dominated organizations target minorities -- and specifically, African-Americans -- for abortion services.

"We think of the fact that lots in the African-American community wouldn't think highly of an organization like the KKK, but the reality is Planned Parenthood kills more African-Americans in two weeks than the Klan has killed in its whole 150 history," notes Parker. "And so it's important that people in the African-American community become aware of how dangerous the organization of Planned Parenthood is."

The AME pastor points out that the Obama administration gives more than a million dollars a day to Planned Parenthood.

The issue of same-sex "marriage" came up, according to Parker, and one delegate took exception on the floor to the position President Barack Obama has taken in favor of same-gender marriage -- and made a motion in favor of reaffirming the denomination's clear, biblically based position on the subject and that denomination officials quietly share that statement with the president.

While that motion failed, Parker says at least the AME churches stance on traditional, biblical marriage will remain the same.

Black pastors to celebrate civil rights of unborn on Martin Luther King Day

BY KATHLEEN GILBERT

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(LifeSiteNews.com) - The annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s birthday - also known as “Civil Rights Day” in some states - marks a time to recall the injustice directed against a minority population that were once deemed less than human.

Now, a group of black pastors are planning a celebration to draw attention to the next step in the civil rights movement: dignity and equal protection for unborn children.

Sponsored by Pro-Life Mississippi, the Festival for Life will take place January 17 at 4pm at the Wesley Biblical Seminary in Jackson, where students and other guests will view several pro-life films and hear remarks from pro-life pastors.

The film lineup includes Maafa 21, a documentary uncovering how African Americans have been a continual target of the eugenics movement, perpetuated today by proponents of abortion and birth control.

Pastor Joseph Parker of Campbell Chapel African Methodist Episcopal church in Pulaski, Tennessee, told LifeSiteNews.com that “clearly we see the life issue as a civil rights issue, but tragically, the other side has never wanted it to be seen as such.” Parker’s associates include Rev. Walter Hoye, a black pastor who was arrested for peaceful pro-life witness outside an Oakland, California abortion clinic in May 2008.

The pastor said the goal of the festival would be to illustrate “the need for the church to stand against abortion.” “Too many believers, leaders in the Church and others, have been much too passive on this issue,” said Parker, who hoped that the event would be copied by other believers in their own communities.

“It is very important to point out that the Life issue is one of, if not the most serious civil rights issue that any people, African Americans or any other people, have ever faced. If ever there was a civil rights issue worth standing up for, this is it!”

Several pro-life projects, notably the Genocide Awareness Project of the Center of Bio-Ethical Reform, have highlighted parallels between the modern abortion business and previous cases of mass dehumanization of certain populations.

In January, Parker and his associates hope to fuel the conversation - and conversion - that will one day bring an end to the civil rights abuse of abortion.

“Its very fruitful to stir believers in their faith to the point that they pray daily, ‘Lord, show me how to be an effective witness for you today - for the cause of salvation and for the cause of life.’”