I found this about Mr Meeks.

[Mags]

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=410
Rev. James Meeks
Chicago, Ill.
The Rev. James Meeks is a key member of Chicago's "Gatekeepers" network, an interracial group of evangelical ministers who strive to erase the division between church and state. A stalwart anti-gay activist, Meeks has used his House of Hope mega-church to launch petition drives for the Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a major state-level "family values" pressure group that lauded him last year for leading African Americans in "clearly understanding the threat of gay marriage."

With over 22,000 members, Meeks' congregation was large enough to buoy his successful 2002 campaign for state senator. Last year, he ran for governor as a virtual single-issue candidate, drawing national support from Christian fundamentalists by boldly vowing to fight marriage equality at every turn. Meeks eventually dropped out of the race.

Meeks and the IFI are partnered with Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defense Fund, major anti-gay organizations of the Christian Right. They also are tightly allied with Americans for Truth, an Illinois group that said in a press release last year that "fighting AIDS without talking against homosexuality is like fighting lung cancer without talking against smoking."

[bicentennial_baby]

1. And according to the press release on Obama's religious advisors...

Mr Meeks is not among them. Thanks for playing.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/obama/obama120407pr.html

[wndycty]

7. Meeks is a conservative Democrat, but if the OP wants to attack him because Sean Hannity told him to

. . .maybe the OP is posting on the wrong site:

Meet Rev. Senator Meeks

I don't agree with him on everything (especially choice and gay rights), but if anyone wants to try and take Obama over this they will also be going after a bunch of other Democrats. Go ahead fall for Hannity's shit, go right the fuck ahead.



Senator James T. Meeks (D)
15th District

Committee assignments: Senate Committee of the Whole; Housing and Community Affairs (Vice-Chairperson); Human Services (Chairperson); Appropriations I; Education; State Government & Veterans Affairs.

Biography: Pastor of Salem Baptist Church; born August 4, 1956 in Chicago; Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Religion and Philosophy from Bishop College in Dallas, Texas; Executive Vice President of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; married (wife Jamell), has four children.

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Understood. I'm just pointing out that Hannity is full of it

as far as I can tell, so far.

[wndycty]

13. And OP is full it too, siding with a conservative bigot to attack an elected Democrat

:kick:

[americanstranger]

11. So, basically...

Mags took a lie from Hannity and accepted it as the truth, right?

Damn, some Democrats are pretty gullible.

- as

[displacedtexan]

12. According to this article, he is.

link

"Obama’s closest religious advisers -- Fr. Pfleger, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois State Sen. James Meeks, who moonlights as the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church..."

[wndycty]

14. Meeks and Obama served together in the Illinois Senate!

:kick:

[bicentennial_baby]

15. I think I'll trust the Obama campaign press release

over "men's daily", whatever that is.

[americanstranger]

18. As has been pointed out by NYCGirl in another thread...

...think twice about accepting that site as a source.

http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=MensNewsDaily.com

- as

[Bluebear]

2. 'A stalwart anti-gay activist'

I don't dare say a word anymore.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. See above

[Bluebear]

6. Thank goodness

My heart couldn't take it lol!!

[bicentennial_baby]

9. You are not the only one!

:o

[Hawkeye-X]

3. So you found this in Southern Poverty Law Center?

Uh-huh. And this has to do with Obama, exactly how?

[scheming daemons]

5. Mr. Meeks doesn't work for Obama's campaign.... so what's your point?

....

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. I found this about Sean Hannity.

http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=267

[Cali_Democrat]

16. Oh great, now Hillary supporters will say Obama is anti-gay

FUCK This. He is not anti-gay. I wonder how Clinton's pastor feels about gays. Any christian preacher is anti-gay, or at least most of them.

[Bluebear]

17. 'Any christian preacher is anti-gay', well that is not accurate