Chicago ministers say Martin Luther King would not have supported gay rights

[pgodbold]

I am sick to death of this kind of crap. I'm old enough to have had a past and I walked arm in arm with blacks in Florida in solidarity. I walked with women in support of the ERA. I've been there done that on quite a few rights issues. These Chicago ministers can kiss my gay ass. Even if King would not have supported gays; King was a product of his time and reflected the prejudices of his time. Why the fuck do these jackasses think I would give a damn about what King thought of my kind?

"A group of Chicago ministers are holding a press conference today" (yesterday) "to claim that civil rights leader Martin Luther King would not have supported gay rights."

Pink News: http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/01/17/chicago-ministers-say-martin-luther-king-would-not-have-supported-gay-rights/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Is there a word

defining when people put words into a dead person's mouth ???

necrohyperbole ?? quotus morbidum falsehoodus ??? ad hominem post mortum ad nauseum ?????

[pgodbold]

2. Great concept. I wish I had thought of that! nt

[closeupready]

3. Coretta Scott King supported gay marriage and gay rights fully.

Further, she said that supporting gay rights was the only stand which would be consistent with her husband's principles.

So as far as I'm concerned, that's the last word on King and whether he supported gay rights.

[pgodbold]

4. Thank you for posting this. I didn't know that but it says it all. nt

[closeupready]

9. YW. :-)

:hi:

[GodlessBiker]

6. That *is* the last word on the subject for me, too. Thanks.

[Deep13]

7. bingo

[RKP5637]

5. They put words in the mouth of Jesus, feel that God has a special relationship

with them, so this comes as no surprise to me. Hatred knows no bounds and will use any method dead or alive to spread hatred and bigotry. Minister to me is just a cover for their hatred and bigotry.

[Deep13]

8. "I have a dream which does not include those damn f****ts!"

Truly inspiring. Still brings a tear to my eyes. :evilgrin:

[TlalocW]

10. Well, then MLK JR would have been wrong

Easy as that.

TlalocW

[Deep13]

13. Right, fallacy of appeal to authority.

MLK was right because he was right, not because he was MLK.

[left is right]

11. he probably wouldn't have supported GLBT rights in the 50' and 60's

by the 80's or 90's he would have started to realize that such rights were consistent with his other beliefs and by the 21st Century had he still been alive, he would have most likely marched for them. Enlightened people evolve and change

[RKP5637]

12. Being a product of the 50's and 60's I think you're quite correct. n/t

[Deep13]

14. Jesse Jackson supported gay rights in the 1980s.

He was among King's close associates.

[Creideiki]

15. Bayard Rustin would disagree

But why ask his wife and close professional associates? Far better to ask some bigots in Chicago.