Cornel Wt praised the Supreme Court's lg last week on gay marriage, but lamented that "we black folk are jt beg phed to the back of the b terms of our visibily."
Contents:
- CORNEL WT COMMENTARY: GAY MARRIAGE
- CORNEL WT ON GAY MARRIAGE LGS: BLACK PEOPLE ‘BEG PHED TO THE BACK OF THE B’
- A.M. LKS: AP PHONE RERDS SEIZED, CORNEL WT SAYS OBAMA IS A "WAR CRIMAL," MNOTA SET TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
- RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
CORNEL WT COMMENTARY: GAY MARRIAGE
Cornel Wt Commentary: Gay Marriage. Cornel Wt praised the Supreme Court’s lg last week on gay marriage, but lamented that “we black folk are jt beg phed to the back of the b terms of our visibily.
Speakg on his rad show wh -host Tavis Sey, the Democrat ma the se that while the urt’s cisn advanced the rights of gay upl, hred the rights of blacks by strikg down part of the Votg Rights Act.
“The irony of the age of Obama which black folks found themselv phed to the back, our gay brothers and lbian sisters more and more phed to the center, ” he add.
CORNEL WT ON GAY MARRIAGE LGS: BLACK PEOPLE ‘BEG PHED TO THE BACK OF THE B’
Our argument has centered on six or seven biblil passag that appear to mentn homosexualy negatively or appear to tablish a heterosexual norm: the s of Sodom, the laws of Levic and the list of “the unrighteo” 1 Corthians 6:9-10. I -thored a popular textbook that stated this posn flatly: “Homosexual nduct is one form of sexual exprsn that falls outsi the will of God. It has dawned on me wh shockg force that homosexualy is not primarily an issue of Christian sexual ethics.
It is hard to cut agast the gra of your entire culture, and urage is the 1960s, when the gay rights movement began Ameri, Christians and their lears have stggled to figure out how to rpond to the growg tolerance of same-sex relatnships. I hardly knew anyone who was gay before that move, but afterward, they seemed to be everywhere, and a few beme very ar iends. Anytime people tell you not to love others—don’t love gays, don’t love lbians, so forth—that’s precisely, for Christians, a sign of the need to What exactly do that look like a moment when the culture is very much preoccupied wh the way that whens n be toxic?
Poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia, the self-loathg and passivy of margalized groups—the are problems rooted an entrenched, hierarchil palist system that perpetuat and thriv on opprsn.
A.M. LKS: AP PHONE RERDS SEIZED, CORNEL WT SAYS OBAMA IS A "WAR CRIMAL," MNOTA SET TO LEGALIZE GAY MARRIAGE
Still, to lose a iend, to experience fay disrd, or to be brand as a bigot or homophobe is no fun. Mnota Governor Mark Dayton is expected to sign a bill legalizg gay marriage that was passed by the Mnota Senate yterday. Although Rsia crimalized homosexualy s ago, animosy agast gays remas high.
In 2012, the Mosw cy ernment orred that gay pri paras be banned for the next 100 years.
RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Attacks on the gay muny persist. Dozens of other activists received ath threats om an obscure anti-gay group that claimed rponsibily for the killg of Grigoryeva, who was stabbed repeatedly and showed signs of 2017, reports of extrajudicial arrts, torture and killgs of gay men the republic of Chechnya drew ternatnal year, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, a uple raisg two adopted children, had to flee Rsia after a doctor reported them to police and thori opened a crimal se.
Adoptn by same-sex upl is banned Rsia, but Vaganov had applied as a sgle Olenichev, a lawyer wh the Comg Out gay rights group, said there are stanc of tolerance by some urts. He said he has worked on seven ctody s which judg refed to take away ctody, sayg that sexual orientatn don’t play a role a child’s he is ncerned that the nstutnal chang will enurage anti-gay views. “Our society really looks up to what the ernment do, so any kds of public actns promotg homophobia, transphobia, biphobia, many people may perceive as a ll for actn.
”Print Vladimir Put has rejected cricism of the nstutnal amendments and the gay propaganda said that some untri, “crimal law provisns still exist unr which people of nontradnal sexual orientatn n be persecuted crimally, as was the Soviet Unn.