Religious leaders, including blacks who should care about civil rights, oppose gay marriage and will act against it in Massachusetts. Here’s some of the language they’re using to justify their opposition, courtesy of tomorrow’s Boston Herald:
“The civil rights movement had to do with rights that belong to everybody. The right
to vote, the right to go where we want. The right of marriage only belongs to those who fit within the context of marriage -- one man and one woman. I don’t deny that the gay and lesbian community has a right to certain benefits. But I don’t think they should change the definition of marriage.”
The speaker is the Rev. Wesley Roberts, of the Black Ministerial Alliance.
Bizarre, isn’t it? He talks about “rights that belong to everybody” that didn’t until the civil rights movement made it so. It doesn’t take too much imagination to replace such things as “the right of marriage” with “the right to vote” and see the weakness of his arguments.
It’s not really that bizarre. It’s just disappointing.
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