Bayard Rt was an adviser to Mart Luther Kg Jr. and the anizer behd the 1963 March on Washgton. And though he was gay, his legacy remas ltle known among many the LGBTQ muny.
Contents:
- BAYARD RT: MART LUTHER KG’S VIEWS ON GAY PEOPLE
- BERNICE KG DEFENDS HERSELF AGAST ANTI-GAY REMARKS
- MART LUTHER KG JR.’S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE
- THE THREE GAY BLACK MEN WHO INFLUENCED MART LUTHER KG, JR.
- THIS IS HOW MART LUTHER KG JR FELT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE, ACRDG TO INIC CIVIL RIGHTS MPAIGNER BAYARD RT
- MEET THE GAY ACTIVIST BEHD MART LUTHER KG JR.'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- WHAT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SHOULD LEARN OM MART LUTHER KG, JR.
BAYARD RT: MART LUTHER KG’S VIEWS ON GAY PEOPLE
Although Rev. Mart Luther Kg Jr. is well known for his learship the civil rights movement, a new upg book is set to make the ntroversial claim that he would have been an advote for gay marriage. Those shockg claims, however, squarely ntradict what Kg's own dghter has said about him the past, and even Kg's own words, which have scribed homosexualy as a "problem." * martin luther king against gays *
Kgs’ views on homosexualy is not nsired polilly rrect by today’s standard. He also believed that homosexualy was a mental disorr. Acrdg to Kg, homosexualy is a mental disorr that has a “solutn.
Is well known for his learship the civil rights movement, an upg book is set to make the ntroversial claim that he would have been an advote for gay marriage.
BERNICE KG DEFENDS HERSELF AGAST ANTI-GAY REMARKS
This 1987 say by Bayard Rt reveals a personal acunt of MLK's feelgs toward gay people. * martin luther king against gays *
Those shockg claims, however, squarely ntradict what Kg's own dghter has said about him the past, and even Kg's own words, which have scribed homosexualy as a "problem.
MART LUTHER KG JR.’S VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE
Bernice Kg, dghter of Mart Luther Kg fends herself after makg Anti-Gay ments * martin luther king against gays *
Mart Luther Kg, Jr., Homosexualy, and Gay Rights, who feels the civil rights lear would have sid wh those advotg for gay marriage.
However, most do not believe Kg would have petned for homosexual Rev.
Jse Lee Peterson, founr and print of The Brotherhood Organizatn of A New Dty, told The Christian Post that studyg Kg’s speech, he uld not nceive the civil rights lear headg a gay rights movement. "In the scriptur says that homosexualy is an abomatn agast God. ”However, the thor of the ntroversial new book, Long, has cid to assert that Kg would have been a gay activist.
THE THREE GAY BLACK MEN WHO INFLUENCED MART LUTHER KG, JR.
Bayard Rt was an dispensable force behd the Civil Rights Movement and openly gay. * martin luther king against gays *
Kg never publicly weled gays at the ont gate of his beloved muny. In the letter, Kg rpond to an anonymo boy who was nfed about his homosexualy.
”However, spe Kg's clear reference to homosexualy as a "problem" and somethg "culturally acquired, " others still choose to believe that Kg would have supported gay activists today's era simply bee he loved all people. Vivian has exprsed the belief that Kg would have had sympathy for the gay e.
THIS IS HOW MART LUTHER KG JR FELT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE, ACRDG TO INIC CIVIL RIGHTS MPAIGNER BAYARD RT
* martin luther king against gays *
”However, most others do not e to the ncln that jt bee Kg believed God's love towards all people, that this would mean he would have supported gay activist agendas, such as the ph to refe marriage to clu homosexuals.
MEET THE GAY ACTIVIST BEHD MART LUTHER KG JR.'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The generally held nservative Christian viewpot is that God's love is ed for everybody, but that homosexualy is scribed the Bible as a s, and that God's universal love would not equate to the acceptance of sful actns, such as homosexual acts. Kg's own dghter has openly taken a strong stance agast gay activism.
Bernice Kg led a march to her father's grave, askg for a nstutnal ban on gay marriage.
Bernice, who once attend Bishop Eddie Long's church, announced that she would beg her own mistry after a homosexual sndal veloped Long's ngregatn. ”At a nference New Zealand, Bernice spoke about her father's posn on homosexualy sayg, "I know ep down my sanctified soul that he did not take a bullet for same-sex unns. Peterson did not know Kg the same way Bernice did, he acknowledged that the civil rights lear would most likely disapprove of the acts homosexuals were mtg.
WHAT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SHOULD LEARN OM MART LUTHER KG, JR.
“Nothg dit that he would thk homosexualy is om God, normal and somethg that we should take on as right, ” Peterson told CP. “He wouldn't tell to hate homosexuals, but to show them how to overe s.
Kg felt about gayns except to say that I'm sure he would have been sympathetic and would not have had the prejudicial view. My beg gay was not a problem for Dr. He ma que clear that he had absolutely no prejudice toward me or toward homosexualy; but he said: "I put the movement first above all thgs, and I believe is my moral obligatn to go to this meetg and say that wh all of your talent, I don't thk you should lead this important march.
They are not only gog to raise the qutn of homosexualy. Therefore, they are gog to raise three qutns: the qutn of homosexualy, the qutn of draft-dodg, the qutn of your beg a Communist. Mart Luther Kg Jr., the current issue of Atlanta magaze fends herself regardg anti-gay remarks.