Maryland religious leader and onetime D.C. resident Bishop Harry Jackson is still waging a battle against marriage equality, and yesterday he accused President Obama of having been paid to come out and say that he supported same-sex marriage, reports The Daily Caller:

“In the African-American community, many people are saying they made him do that, we don’t understand why he did that,” said Jackson. “We don’t believe that really was the president’s intent. Others have given high fives in the backroom saying, ‘he got paid.’ We don’t really know what the intent of the president is except that we know that is not just an isolated incident. Some further action will follow.”

Jackson also called Obama’s announcement a “declaration of political war against the venerable institution of marriage.” He also wondered aloud whether Obama was a friend or “an enemy to an institution that God has ordained.”

This isn’t the first time that Jackson, a senior pastor at the Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, has used such language when discussing marriage equality. After the D.C. Council voted in 2009 to approve same-sex marriage, Jackson—who became a D.C. resident in order to lead the fight against marriage equality here—threatened a “bloodletting” against the elected officials who voted in favor. The following year, none of the councilmembers who voted for same-sex marriage were voted out of office, and the only candidate that took money from anti-marriage equality groups lost his race.

Obama’s announcement seems to have paid real dividends in Maryland, which may vote on same-sex marriage in November—according to a recent poll, marriage equality now enjoys the support of 57 percent of voters, a 12-point swing from March.