The kind of demographic clash that the Freedom-Haters apparently didn't foresee

In the FHer worldview, one supposedly alienated category of persons isn't supposed to be so diametrically opposed to another such category - and publicly give kudos to a spokesperson for the plain truth, but there it is:

Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore will receive the first “Letter From Birmingham Jail Courage Award” from the Coalition of African-American Pastors, the CAAP announced this week. The group plans to present to Moore the first of what is planned as an annual award sometime this spring, according to the announcement sent out on Wednesday. The award is named for civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.’s impassioned plea to fellow clergymen to stand united in opposition to segregation, written while he was jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. CAAP announced the award would got to Moore the day after the Alabama Supreme Court ordered the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, despite a federal court ruling declaring the state’s ban on same-sex "marriage" unconstitutional.     

“Chief Justice Moore is an example for all of us,” CAAP president Reverend William Owens said in a statement included in the organization’s press release. “By making a principled and persuasive stand for marriage, Chief Justice Moore has singled himself out as someone who is ready to defend our most cherished values and help lead this new civil rights movement. By his words and courageous actions, he has helped preserve marriage, the family, justice, and the spirit of democracy. This is what it means to be a ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail Courage Award’ recipient. We hope that his example inspires others to take similar action to defend marriage in their own communities.”

The group’s stand puts them on the opposite side of the issue from the first African-American president. Barack Obama, after having previously said he believes marriage is a union of one man and one woman, announced in 2012 that he supported the right of same-sex couples to marry. Though surveys show African-Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic, polls have also consistently shown more opposition to same-sex marriage among black voters than among the general voting public and far more than among Democratic voters. While 31 states have voted against same-sex marriage in statewide referenda, it is now legal in 37 states, three of which adopted the change by popular vote. In the other states, legal recognition of same-sex marriage came either by judicial ruling or by vote of state legislatures.

In February U.S. District Court Judge Callie Granade ruled the state's ban on same-sex marriage, a constitutional amendment adopted by the state’s voters, unconstitutional and later ordered Mobile's probate judge to issue marriage licenses. In an interview with AL.com, Moore said the ruling applied only to the plaintiffs in the litigation and to the judge in Mobile and that the federal judge lacked the authority to declare null and void an amendment to the state constitution. "A federal judge has no authority to overturn a state constitutional amendment in the face of a state court's opinion on the same matter," Moore said.

Somebody's standing up for calling a halt to the infinite elasticity of language.  Well, done, pastors.