PREACHERS: MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULDN’T SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
On the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a group of ministers has claimed that the late civil rights leader would not have supported same-sex marriage or LGBT rights.
The Chicago-based Illinois Family Institute (IFI) – which describes itself as “a non-profit ministry dedicated to upholding and re-affirming marriage, family, life and liberty” – made the claim in a media statement.
It rejected any analogies between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement. “For years, homosexual activists and their allies have manufactured and exploited an absurd and offensive analogy between homosexuality and race in order to advance their moral and political agenda,” said the ministers.
“Homosexualists use the heroic battle to end racial discrimination as a Trojan Horse to eradicate moral judgments about homosexual conduct. All civilized persons – particularly African-Americans – should be outraged.”
IFI said that “homosexualist organizations” are exploiting the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement “in order to achieve their morally dubious and intellectually vacuous goal”.
The organisation reiterated the belief that homosexuality “is defined by desire and voluntary sexual acts” and it not like race which is “100 percent heritable, absolutely immutable and carries no behavioural implications”.
Martin Luther King, Jr is recognised as one of the most prominent leaders in the African American civil rights movement. He was assassinated in 1968 and his life is commemorated in a national holiday on the third Monday of January each year in the US.
M(i)LK. Martin Luther King stood for fighting injustice, inequality and the dignity of oppressed people. How is it that segregation of race is a different issue to the cause of freedom of association and having the dignity not of a mere choice but inherently being whom you are? In a society that has always benefited from what we as homosexuals have contributed to the arts, science and literature and many many more fields, how is it that we are being denied the same rights that we fought for and pay taxes for.
Admiral FitzWallis in the West Wing said: “The problem with that is that’s what they were saying about me 50 years ago – blacks shouldn’t serve with whites. It would disrupt the unit. You know what? It did disrupt the unit. The unit got over it. The unit changed. I’m an admiral in the U.S. Navy and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff… Beat that with a stick.”
As people get to grips with their insecurities there is growth and tolerance of all. The rights of the homosexual man and woman is that fight that was the fight of segregation and racial discrimination 50 years ago. Martin Luther had that dream and the clouds were pink in his dreams
What does it matter he is fucken dead ….
Martin Luther King. It matters a great deal
People like Oliver Tambo and Martin Luther King Rosa Parks and many before them have walked a road that men wont tread today to pave the way for our freedom we enjoy today. Ignorance is not an excuse.