Harry R. Jackson Jr. is an African-American Christian priest and Pentecostal bishop serving as a senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, and serving as bishop of the Evangelical International Communion Chief Churches. He is also a conservative social activist and commentator.
Jackson is the founder and chair of the Coalition for High Leadership Leadership, which consists of ministers who actively promote conservative social causes. Bishop Jackson is also one of the founders of the Unified Church Initiative that seeks to bring racial healing to church and America.
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Jackson grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He became involved in political activism as a child with his mother, Essie. His parents managed to get $ 2,500 in fees needed to send him to Cincinnati Country Day School. He studied at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he played football. He got his experiments with the New England Patriots but did not make the team.
The Jackson family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1973, finally settled in Silver Spring, Maryland. After graduating from college, he got high-level executive jobs in the Republic of Steel and was accepted into Harvard Business School. He married his wife, Michele, in 1976.
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Ministry
The death of his father, Harry Jackson Sr., caused Jackson to decide to become a Christian minister. He and his wife moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he preached in downtown. Soon he took a job at Corning Glass (now Corning Incorporated) in Corning, New York, and preached in his spare time. There he founded a church called the Christian Hope Center, and his parish was mostly white. "We really broke the racial barrier for blacks who graze white people in 1981," he said.
Hope Christian Church
Jackson's work at Corning drew attention, and he was recruited to Beltsville, Maryland to take over the Christian Church of Hope.
Views about marriage and abortion
Jackson believes same-sex marriage and abortion are morally wrong. She believes abortion and gay marriage lead to erosion of a black family, saying, "I do not know of any blacks who say, 'I hate gay people.' We are more generally accepted, but you overlap it - homosexuality and gay marriage - with cluttered families, and we do not know how to put it back together, "he said.
"I believe that the Bible teaches that same-sex marriage is an oxymoron," he said. "If you define marriage, you have to redefine the family, you have to redefine parenting, I'm looking at the extinction of marriage, and the black culture falls free."
Jackson has agreed with Pope Benedict XVI's conviction that condoms promote AIDS.
Activism
Jackson is a leading activist of same-sex marriage. Jackson began writing about black families in the late 1990s, and gained national recognition through his column for Karisma magazine, where he often wrote about abortion and gay marriage.
In 2009, he began leading the movement against the legalization of same-sex marriage in Washington, DC A group led by Jackson filed a District of Columbia suit after the DC Supervisory Board refused to allow voting initiatives on same-sex marriage, claiming such an initiative would be infringing DC Human Rights Act. In January 2010, the High Court of D.C. strengthen the board's decision. Jackson appealed to D.C. Court of Appeals, but the court upheld the decision of the Court of Appeal in 5-4 votes. Jackson later appealed to the United States Supreme Court, but was rejected without comment in January 2011.
References
External links
- Truth in Black & amp; White (official website of the bishop)
- Hope Christian Church (official website of the bishops' congregation)
- The Unified Church (reconciled church office website)
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