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Julian Bond, Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and others contend that we Christians use religious teachings to deny rights to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.  This contention was made public in a three-minute commercial posted on the National Black Justice Coalition’s (NBJC’s) YouTube page (www.youtube.com/NBJCDC).

The NBJC, America’s only nationwide Black Gay civil rights (but really choice) organization, asks, “Is using religious teachings to deny equal rights to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people

Once, I asked a friend to define success. When have we achieved that pinnacle of success?”  The answer was “Only too much is enough.”

Successful achievers never tire and rest on their laurels – not Tiger Woods, or Jesse Jackson, Magic Johnson, Cornell West, Tavis Smiley, Oprah Winfrey, or Barack Obama. We all know the household names. But we also know teachers, and social workers and foster parents, and preachers and community activists, and entrepreneurs, and parents who never tire of seeking a better outcome for themselves and their families – our community.

I looked around