Alliance Building-- CA NAACP Supports Same Sex Marriage

This past weekend, history was made as a resolution in support of civil marriage equality and religious freedom was approved (without dissent) by the California State Democratic Party convention.

This resolution was strongly supported by the leadership of the California Chapter of the NAACP. The CA NAACP recently voted to support AB19 and civil marriage equality, at a time when the Republican Party and evangelical Christian organizations are trying to network within African-American churches to create divisiveness around the issue of same sex marriage.

The recent endorsement and support of gay and lesbian marriage by CA NAACP has not been without costs. Some members have left the CA NAACP in protest. We strongly encourage members of Alice to take this message of support and coalition building to heart and join the CA NAACP this week.

Simply go to www.ca-naacp.org to join or renew. (Then click on that page in the upper-left corner on "Membership Access".) Memberships start at $30. After doing so, please send Alice a message at info@alicebtoklas.org which we will forward to the president of the CA NAACP so they can recognize our mutual support.