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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."

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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. 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.

CORNEL WT ON GAY MARRIAGE LGS: BLACK PEOPLE ‘BEG PHED TO THE BACK OF THE B’

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.

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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.

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.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

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.

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Rsian nstutn change ends hop for gay marriage.

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