http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2329 Born in August 1956, Rev. James T. Meeks since 2002 has been a Democratic member of the Illinois state senate, where he served alongside Barack Obama from 2002-2004 (prior to Obama’s election to the U.S. Senate). Meeks also has been the pastor of Chicago’s 22,000-member Salem Baptist Church since 1985, and he formerly served as an executive vice president for Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH coalition.
Strongly opposed to homosexuality,
Meeks has blamed “Hollywood Jews for bringing us [the 2005 film] Brokeback Mountain.” According to a 2006 Chicago Sun Times article, Meeks’ church sponsored a “Halloween fright night” which “consigned to the flames of hell two mincing young men wearing body glitter who were supposed to be homosexuals.”