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Civil rights activist Rev. William Owens, who is founder and president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, said "there is no comparison between the civil rights movement and the gay community’s fight for same-sex marriage." In his video he expresses how the gay community cannot relate there discrimination to the African Americans discrimination. He states;  “I marched and many other thousands of people marched in this same location years ago on the claim that we were being discriminated against, and today the other community is trying to say that they are suffering the same thing that we suffered, but I tell you they are not." He is against gay marriage and marched to defend the sacred institution of marriage. Owen expresses how gay marriage movement cannot compare the struggles Blacks had to face to fight for discrimination.He states that homosexuals choose the gay lifestyle, He points out that " there is absolutely nothing I can do to change the color of my skin." He says (referring to the gay community) " they are not suffering what we suffered, and I sympathize with people who face discrimination. Every person should be treated with dignity and respect, but what they're going through does not compare to what we went through." He strongly believes that he gay community trying to change the definition of marriage will be "devastating to all of our families." 

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