HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The biggest U.S. civil rights group’s two-month-old decision to support same-sex marriage has opened rifts at its convention in Houston this week, pitting religious conservatives against political progressives.
The 103-year-old National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s support for same-sex marriage is “a continuation of its historic commitment to equal protection under the law,” the organization said in a statement when the resolution was approved at a board meeting in Miami on May 19.
