The Washington Timesis running somehting I had wondered about… was this kind of resentment ever going to surface:
” ‘We find the gay community’s attempt to tie their pursuit of special rights based on their behavior to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s abhorrent,’ Bishop Andrew Merritt of Straight Gate Ministries and several other Detroit pastors said recently in a statement supporting traditional marriage. ‘Being black is not a lifestyle choice.’
The Rev. Jesse Jackson also has said homosexual rights are not the same as civil rights. “
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But “communities of color” are the strongest supporters of traditional marriage and amendments to protect it, said Matt Daniels, executive director of the Alliance for Marriage, which supports a federal marriage amendment and has the Rev. Walter Fauntroy, former D.C. delegate, on its board.
People in black churches are watching this marriage debate, “and they are saying to themselves, ‘There is something to this that is not right. It’s not right at all,'” said the Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown, a Cambridge, Mass., pastor who has joined others in the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston.
I’m willing to bet you’ll never see this article linked by Sullivan.
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