Posted on 06/12/2012 11:50:35 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
For years, gay rights organizations and major civil rights organizations viewed each other warily. African-American leaders often saw the gay rights groups as insensitive to racial concerns, and some resented the movement’s use of civil rights language to make the case for same-sex marriage. Advocates for gay rights, in turn, sometimes blamed socially conservative African-Americans for their defeat in crucial electoral battles.
But since the relationship reached something of a crisis with the passage of Proposition 8, California’s ballot initiative against same-sex marriage, in 2008, leaders in both movements have made an effort to bring their groups closer together.
Now, conversations among leaders in the gay, black and Latino communities have borne significant fruit: On May 19, the board of the N.A.A.C.P. voted to endorse same-sex marriage.
And then, last Tuesday, representatives of several national gay rights organizations gathered at New York City’s Stonewall Inn, often described as the birthplace of their movement, to announce that they would march to protest the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practice, under which the police each year have been stopping hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers, most of them black or Latino, in an effort to prevent crime.
Some of the gay rights leaders specifically cited support from the N.A.A.C.P. for same-sex marriage as a reason they decided to oppose the stop-and-frisk policy.
“We need to find ways to strengthen our alliances and really strengthen our commitment to one another,” said Jeffrey Campagna, a national gay rights organizer who is coordinating the involvement of gay rights groups in the march on June 17 against the stop-and-frisk practice.
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Souls for sale... Souls for sale... CHEAP!!!! Step right up!!!
...against straight, white males.
No reason for the two victimology groups not to join forces. It makes sense when their god, a Halfrican homo on the down-low, is Bathhouse Barry.
Blacks in this state voted for Proposition 8 in larger numbers than did non blacks. So these so-called 'black leaders' are out of touch with the blacks here and likely elsewhere.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackass aren’t real religious figures anyway, what with their record of making openly anti-semitic statements like “Jew them down” and “Hymietown”, and Jackson’s own bastard child he paid for using embezzled funds from the Rainbow Coalition.
What’s it matter to them so long as they can build the base of DemocRat voters (and donors).
A lot of jackboots and goose stepping involved I bet...
Correction:
"Black Leaders and Gay Advocates March MINCE in Step"
Obama ordered his dark-skin lackies to STFU and get behind the homos (or in front) to save his sorry rear end.
The New York Times is dreaming again.
I really take exception to the Left’s formulation that somehow all black people are just like sexual perverts. I would think black folks would be rightly insulted by the notion, but they seem OK with it.
It is just the Marxist Blacks that join the Godless “homosexuals”. Atheism is the strong bond.
Atheism’s evil legacy should make one pause and reexamine their destructive, ugly “lifestyle choice” which destroys the Nature of Man and promotes a twisted, logic of hatred for human beings—reduces them to base animal level devoid of reason and morality.
Awesome first step. Now we just need the Muslims and Feminists to walk side by side.
Folks, I don’t buy this story for one second. The NYT is merely one of the Pennsylvania Avenue Sodomites scribes and should be given no credibilty whatsoever - especially in Freepeland.
... With the New York Times high-steppin’ and twirlin’ a baton in the parade.
That’s the strength of the democrat party.
It’s made up of a number of single issue groups and they support each other through thick and thin.
The Republicans, not so much.
Thanks Altura Ct.
No reason for the two victimology groups not to join forces. It makes sense when their god, a Halfrican homo on the down-low, is Bathhouse Barry.
There’s nothing to be surprised about here, considering that the NAACP has been pro-abortion for a long time, and also pro-gay rights for a long time as well.
No reason for the two victimology groups not to join forces. It makes sense when their god, a Halfrican homo on the down-low, is Bathhouse Barry.
There’s nothing to be surprised about here, considering that the NAACP has been pro-abortion for a long time, and also pro-gay rights for a long time as well.
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