Black Ministers Urge Their Parishioners to Vote
(AP) — On the Sunday before Election Day, preachers told black churchgoers across the country to get out and vote — and defy predictions that they’ll be complacent or uninterested in a year that President Barack Obama isn’t on the ballot. Tying the vote to nostalgia and obligation, black pastors invoked the civil rights movement and Obama’s historic 2008 victory. At Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — the spiritual home of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock warned attendees that not voting would be nothing short of a sin.
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