Hypocrites using religion as a justification for their irrational viewpoints? Hmmm. You don’t see that very often:
DeVeaux, who called her church the nation’s oldest black congregation and one of its largest, said its position bears no animus to homosexuals, and many of the leaders gathered heralded their own role in the civil rights movement.
“This is not about being anti-gay,” she said. “It’s about being for marriage as between a woman and a man. I would never, ever try to do anything negative against any segment of the population.”
Utter bullshit. As if writing discrimination into the Constitution were not “negative”. Rewrite that last sentence as “It’s about being for marriage as between a WHITE woman and a WHITE man.” See how it plays…
Assuming that Ms. Patricia DeVeaux has devoted her life to combating bigotry, one wonders why she is so firmly in favor of segregation and unequal protection under the law as long as it applies to a minority group of which she is not a member. It disturbs me that churches with a predominantly black following — every one of whom should know better — would engage in this sort of bigotry and prejudice…
It is the absolute height of hypocrisy that ranking officers of major black churches, including the very same Walter Fauntroy who was so closely aligned with Martin Luther King, have now found their own group of people to send to the back of the bus…
These particular “civil rights leaders” sound disturbingly like old Southern plantation owners who believed that keeping their slaves in bondage and managing their lives for them was the only humanitarian alternative. Note that one of the major aspects of control plantation owners exercised over their slaves was the decision over who they would or would not be allowed to marry…
I have very little respect for “religious leaders”, whose primary goal often seems to be the complete elimination of religious (or personal) freedom in America. I have over the years, however, managed to hold on to some level of respect for the black churches and their work to rebuild their communities and elminate bigotry. Suffice to say that respect is now waning…