Earlier this month, the NAACP passed a resolution supporting marriage equality and declaring that it would “oppose any national, state, local policy or legislative initiative that seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens.”
This move is not sitting well with Matt Barber, who is accusing the organization of making the announcement simply in order to provide political cover for President Obama and, in doing so, “thumbing their nose at their own constituents.” On top of that, Barber said the resolution was “offensive,” declaring “how dare they demean and undermine and cheapen the genuine, noble civil rights movement” by supporting “deviant sexual behavior” especially since gays never had to drink from separate water fountains or were victims of lynchings:
