In 2012, the Rev. Bill Owens, president of the Coalition of African American Pastors, blasted President Barack Obama for comparing the LGBT agenda with the Civil Rights Movement.
He has since been a vocal opponent of the president’s “radical agenda,” saying recently “there is simply no relation” between the struggles that black Americans faced and “the desire of a tiny minority group to violate the dignity and privacy of women and girls.” He further dismissed the president’s transgender mandate for public schools as a “gross insult to all of those who marched with Dr. King and faced fire hoses and hatred in the name of equality.”
During the recent March for Marriage, hosted in Washington, D.C., by the National Organization for Marriage, Owens unloaded on Obama again. This time, he said the president “deceived America” and as a result, “hurt the American family.”
“When President Obama was running for president, I had some friends in the gay community who informed me that he was going to say that he was for marriage between a man and a woman in his first term to get elected but he would take the issue up in his second term, and that’s what he did,” he said. “So first of all, he deceived America.
“And you must fear no man. I fear no man. I got a lot of criticism, a lot of hate mail for opposing Obama. Obama is a black American, but his father is an African, and I think he thinks he can be a king like they have in Africa, but America don’t have kings.
“We have a president, and I stand against Mr. Obama very much today. He’s on the wrong track, and he has hurt America and the American family.”
Owens then repeated his calls to oppose the Obama Administration’s transgender mandate:
Only a sick man—I mean sick in his mind—would promote a program that men can go in women’s restrooms. Only a sick man would promote that.
The forces will be with you if you stand up. Refuse to obey an unjust law.
You don’t have to be important. You don’t have to be a preacher. You don’t have to be a doctor. You don’t have to be rich, but you can do your part, and you never know when God will step in and stand by you and you make a difference.
I’m going to challenge black America to stand up. We let Obama and the gay community take what black people marched and worked for, died for, were beaten for, and called this civil rights. It’s not a civil right. It’s a civil wrong, and I call all men of all colors to protect your wife, protect your mother, protect your daughter.
Don’t let them get away with men coming in women’s restrooms. We have enough perverts. We have enough crazy people, and they will abuse our families.
