Civil rights group threatens to fire local leader for marriage equality endorsement

The Los Angeles Times
July 11, 2009
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group partly founded by Martin Luther King Jr., has threatened to fire the president of its Los Angeles chapter because he supports marriage equality. The Rev. Eric P. Lee, president of the local SCLC chapter for two years, became an outspoken advocate of the freedom to marry during the recent campaign against Proposition 8, an amendment to the state Constitution that banned such unions. [Link]