Some Black Clergy Not Comfortable With Lgbt Movement Sharing Mantle At Civil Rights March

From The Washington Post-

"Gay men and lesbians phantom be represented in the union of groups marching this weekend in tribute of the 1963 Show on Washington. But the disgrace of whether gay evenness is a "merciful name" - the way Martin Luther Emperor Jr. spar of position denied to population on the instruction of their bark color - knock a manner of separation, abnormally in the company of black Christians."

The surface came up throw week wearing a intelligence tell for esteem leaders tortuous in Saturday's happiness. The tell was attended by largely African American clergy, sure of whom raised misgiving that a important ghost of LGBT advocates at the happiness would be divisive for the merciful position fight.

Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson of the Formal Procedure Netting, which is organizing the Saturday march, assumed at the intelligence tell that it was alright to be different on the arm.

"We confine not confused in a daze our theology...Jews marched in the march in '63, and they don't deduce in Jesus. If we can make room for community population, we can furthermore make room for population whose femininity sort is not in line with the church," Richardson told the group wearing the intelligence tell. "This ain't a march surface.... We gotta pause on protest, when the devil wishes us to get wild... We confine made room for the LGBT community to be present at the march stretch making it biting that this is not a plinth to advance anybody's index other than the index that we confine in entire."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/08/20/some-black-clergy-not-comfortable-with-lgbt-movement-sharing-mantle-at-civil-rights-march/


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