Black Shift on Maryland Gay Marriage Pits Clergy Against NAACP
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Jonathan Wilson, who works at a Baltimore wax museum that celebrates black America’s rise from slavery, is warming to the idea that same-sex marriage is a civil right.
A black evangelical Christian, Wilson, 58, initially saw gay marriage as at odds with his religion. In the months since its legalization won support from President Barack Obama, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and some ministers, he’s started to view limits on the unions as a lingering inequality. He said he may vote to support gay marriage when it’s on Maryland’s Nov. 6 ballot.