[Durham INC] Coretta Scott King quotes on Gay Rights

[Ellen Whitaker]

Coretta Scott King on Gay Rights:

• Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American 
workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of 
their rights on the job. For too long, our nation has tolerated the 
insidious form of discrimination against this group of Americans, who 
have worked as hard as any group, paid their taxes like everyone else, 
and yet have been denied equal protection under the law.

• I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human 
rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on 
sexual orientation.

• I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights 
of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial 
justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

• I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream 
to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and 
gay people.

• We have to launch a national campaign against homophobia in the black 
community.

• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of 
bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny 
their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for 
further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize 
the next minority group.

• Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in 
Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the 
Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were 
fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for 
their own, and I salute their contributions.




From: Christine Chamberlain <christinebbd at yahoo.com>
Date: September 15, 2011 1:04:54 PM EDT
To: inclistserv <inc-list at durhaminc.org>
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Anti-Gay is as Anti-Gay Does
Reply-To: Christine Chamberlain <christinebbd at yahoo.com>

The gay agenda will continue to offend  when you compare being gay to 
being black.  You can't come up with anything on your own, so you 
piggy-back on other causes. 
You  want to redefine marriage for me, and I will not have it.  Next 
we'll have people wanting to add marriage to horses, dogs... there was 
a guy in Raleigh arrested for having sex with a horse.  Hey... he loved 
the horse!  Where does it stop?  How about those who love sex with 
children?

Redefining marriage is a bad idea.
 
Christine Chamberlain
From: John Martin <bulldurhamnc at yahoo.com>
To: inclistserv <inc-list at durhaminc.org>; Christine Chamberlain 
<christinebbd at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Durham INC] Anti-Gay is as Anti-Gay Does

Christine,

George Wallace was elected governor of Alabama in 1962  with the 
slogan, "segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." 
  When people accused him of being racist, he used to say that he had 
never said anything negative about another person because of their race 
or color.  And some of his best friends were colored people, and blah, 
blah, blah.   

Yours is an old and tiresome argument.  I don't care at all what your 
personal "feelings" are about gay people or anyone else for that 
matter.  But when you defend legal arrangements that make it harder for 
a whole category of people to live their lives as they see fit, you 
shouldn't be surprised if they think you're against them.  Because, of 
course, you are.

John


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