Bayard Rt was an dispensable force behd the Civil Rights Movement and openly gay.
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. 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., 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.
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 *
”However, the thor of the ntroversial new book, Long, has cid to assert that Kg would have been a gay activist.
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. ”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.
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 *
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. “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.
THE THREE GAY BLACK MEN WHO INFLUENCED MART LUTHER KG, JR.
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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.
THIS IS HOW MART LUTHER KG JR FELT ABOUT GAY PEOPLE, ACRDG TO INIC CIVIL RIGHTS MPAIGNER BAYARD RT
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. * martin luther king against gays *
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. Dpe her mother Coretta Stt Kg’s support for LGBT equaly, Kg is an ordaed mister who led a prott agast gay marriage, bee of her personal beliefs. She argu she is not homophobic and that she is “not the enemy, †bee she has iends who are gay and lbian.
MEET THE GAY ACTIVIST BEHD MART LUTHER KG JR.'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Kgs ments, ma rponse to backlash om lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) advot, ironilly beme public jt days before Print Barack Obama named Bayard Rt, the openly gay advisor to Dr. Durg his lifetime, Mart Luther Kg Jr was not a vol advote for gay rights (he was assassated a year before Stonewall, 1968), nor did he speak out agast them. Do they dite that Dr Kg saw homosexualy as somethg that uld, this boy’s se at the very least, be fixed?
WHAT THE GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT SHOULD LEARN OM MART LUTHER KG, JR.
The opns of those who knew and loved him, however, suggt he was no homophobe. He was also a gay man. In 1987, almost 20 years after Dr Kg’s assassatn, Rt approached the subject of his attus towards gay people an say.
“It is difficult for me to know what Dr Kg felt about gayns except to say that I’m sure he would have been sympathetic and would not have had the prejudicial view, ” he wrote. Rt said this his own gayns “was not problem for Dr Kg but a problem for the movement”, explag that eventually some of the reverend’s ner circle eventually “me to the cisn that my sex life was a burn” and “advised him that he should ask me to leave”. Coretta Stt Kg was a tirels gay rights mpaigner.
In 1998, addrsg a Lamda Legal anniversary luncheon, Mrs Kg said: “I still hear people say that I should not be talkg about the rights of lbian and gay people, and I should stick to the issue of racial jtice. ’ I appeal to everyone who believ Mart Luther Kg Jr’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lbian and gay people. Mrs Kg was a tirels LGBTQ+ rights mpaigner, g out support of the groundbreakg Gay and Civil Rights Act that would have banned anti-gay discrimatn many public arenas 1983.