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BERNICE KG DEFENDS HERSELF AGAST ANTI-GAY REMARKS

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.

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. While there, she participated a 2004 march that lled for a "return to fay valu" and a ban on gay marriage (this set Kg apart om Coretta, who saw a lk between the civil rights movement and LGBT rights) left New Birth 2011, around the time Long reached a settlement wh young men who'd acced him of ercg them to sexual relatnships, though she said this was not the reason for her cisn.

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KG (BORN MARCH 28, 1963) IS THE YOUNGT CHILD OF {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}MART LUTHER KG JR. AND CORETTA STT KG. AFTER HER FATHER WAS ASSASSATED MEMPHIS, TENNSEE, 1968, A PICTURE OF KG CURLED UP ON HER MOTHER'S LAP AT THE FUNERAL BEME AN INIC IMAGE. KG WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE FAY'S FOUR CHILDREN TO FOLLOW HER FATHER TO THE MISTRY; HER PREACHG STYLE IS SEEN AS SIAR TO HIS. SHE IS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE MART LUTHER KG JR. 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DPE HER FAY'S TI TO EBENEZER, WAS HELD AT NEW BIRTH MISSNARY BAPTIST CHURCH LHONIA, GEIA, WHERE KG WAS THEN AN ELR. (THE LARGER CHURCH WAS ALSO ABLE TO WELE MORE MOURNERS.)THE YEAR FOLLOWG HER MOTHER'S ATH, KG'S SISTER YOLANDA DIED SANTA MONI, CALIFORNIA, AFTER SUFFERG A HEART ATTACK.GROWG UP, KG EXPERIENCED THE LOSS OF OTHER FAY MEMBERS: A.D. KG, HER UNCLE, WAS FOUND AD HIS POOL 1969 (SPE BEG A STRONG SWIMMER). AND 1974, HER GRANDMOTHER, ALBERTA KG, WAS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE PLAYG THE AN AT EBENEZER.EDUTNIN ATLANTA, KG WAS A STUNT AT THE GALLOWAY SCHOOL BEFORE GOG ON TO GRADUATE OM DOUGLASS HIGH 1981. SHE IALLY ATTEND GRNELL COLLEGE IOWA, BUT SOON TRANSFERRED TO SPELMAN COLLEGE. THERE, SHE RECEIVED A B.A. PSYCHOLOGY 1985.HAVG FELT A LL TO THE MISTRY, BUT ALSO WANTG TO FE HER OWN PATH, KG OBTAED A MASTER OF DIVY AND A DOCTORATE OF LAW OM EMORY UNIVERSY 1990. SHE BEME A MEMBER OF THE GEIA BAR AND WAS LATER GIVEN AN HONORARY DOCTORATE OF DIVY BY WLEY COLLEGE.WHEN WAS BERNICE KG BORN?BERNICE ALBERTE KG WAS BORN ATLANTA, GEIA, ON MARCH 28, 1963.BERNICE KG ON TMPAT A RALLY DURG THE 2016 PRINTIAL MPAIGN, DONALD J. TMP TOLD A CROWD, "IF [HILLARY CLTON] GETS TO PICK HER JUDG, NOTHG YOU N DO, FOLKS," BEFORE ADDG, "ALTHOUGH THE SEND AMENDMENT PEOPLE, MAYBE THERE IS, I DON’T KNOW." KG QUICKLY VOICED HER DISAPPROVAL VIA TWTER: "AS THE DGHTER OF A LEAR WHO WAS ASSASSATED, I FD #TMP’S MENTS DISTASTEFUL, DISTURBG, DANGERO."ON MART LUTHER KG JR. DAY, AS TMP PREPARED TO TAKE OFFICE, KG SPOKE AT EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH AND RECEIVED A STANDG OVATN AFTER STATG, "GOD N TRIUMPH OVER TMP." VIA FACEBOOK, SHE SHARED ADVICE ABOUT ALG WH THE G ADMISTRATN, WH SUGGTNS SUCH AS FOCG ON POLICY AND HOLDG NONVLENT MONSTRATNS.YET KG HAS URGED PEOPLE TO TALK TO EACH OTHER EVEN IF THEY HOLD DIFFERG VIEWS, AND TOLD WSB RAD JANUARY 2017, "UNLIKE SOME PEOPLE, MY FATHER WOULD TRY TO MEET WH PRINT-ELECT TMP BEE HE REGNIZ THAT ORR TO MOVE THE AGENDA OF JTICE, EEDOM AND EQUALY FORWARD, YOU N’T JT PROTT AND RIST. YOU ALSO HAVE TO NEGOTIATE AS WELL."USE OF TWTERWHEN A PEPSI AD SHOWED KENDALL JENNER HANDG A POLICE OFFICER A N OF PEPSI AT A TENSN-EE PROTT, KG TWEETED A PICTURE OF HER FATHER BEG MISTREATED BY THE POLICE AND WROTE, "IF ONLY DADDY WOULD HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THE POWER OF #PEPSI."AFTER SENATOR ELIZABETH WARREN WAS STOPPED OM SHARG A LETTER OM CORETTA STT KG ON THE SENATE FLOOR TO OPPOSE THE NOMATN OF JEFF SSNS AS ATTORNEY GENERAL, KG TWEETED HER SUPPORT OF WARREN. IN SEPTEMBER 2017, WHILE PRINT TMP CRICIZED FOOTBALL PLAYERS FOR KNEELG DURG THE NATNAL ANTHEM, KG SHARED A PHOTO OF HER FATHER KNEELG DURG A MONSTRATN OF HIS OWN, AND NOTED THAT HE'D BEEN CRICIZED FOR PROTTG AS WELL.FOLLOWG A STATEMENT BY JOHN KELLY, TMP'S CHIEF OF STAFF, THAT ROBERT E. LEE HAD BEEN AN HONORABLE MAN AND THAT A LACK OF PROMISE NTRIBUTED TO THE CIVIL WAR, KG SHOT BACK: "IT’S IRRPONSIBLE & DANGERO, PECIALLY WHEN WHE SUPREMACISTS FEEL EMBOLNED, TO MAKE FIGHTG TO MATA SLAVERY SOUND URAGEO." AND AFTER ALABAMA SENATE NDIDATE ROY MOORE OFFERED HIS OPN THAT AMERI HAD BEEN GREAT "WHEN FAI WERE UNED — EVEN THOUGH WE HAD SLAVERY," KG ED TWTER TO CLARE, "GREATNS WILL NEVER CLU SLAVERY."HER PARENTS' LEGACYAFTER KG'S FATHER WAS KILLED, CORETTA HELPED HER CHILDREN BETTER UNRSTAND HIM. BERNICE KG TOLD THE WASHGTON POST 2011, "SHE NSTANTLY TGHT ABOUT SERVICE TO HUMANY, AND SHE WOULD RECE OVER AND OVER AGA THE SCRIPTURE THAT MY FATHER TGHT . 'HE WHO WOULD BE THE GREATT AMONG YOU MT BE THE SERVANT.'" CORETTA HAD STARTED THE KG CENTER HER BASEMENT; BY TAKG THE ROLE OF CEO JANUARY 2012, BERNICE KG HAS BEEN ABLE TO NTUE HER PARENTS' WORK.IN 2009, KG WAS CHOSEN AS THE FIRST FEMALE PRINT OF THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEARSHIP CONFERENCE, WHICH HER FATHER HAD -FOUND AND LED. HOWEVER, THE GROUP WAS FANCIAL DIFFICULTI AND EXPERIENCG FIGHTG, AND KG END UP NOT STEPPG TO THE ROLE.SIBLGSKG HAS THREE SIBLGS: YOLANDA DENISE (1955-2007), MART LUTHER III (B. 1957) AND DEXTER STT (B. 1961). KG'S BROTHERS MANAGE THEIR FATHER'S TATE, WHILE SHE OVERSE THE KG CENTER AND THE ARCHIVE OF HER FATHER'S PAPERS THERE. BOOK AND SPEECHKG THORED HARD QUTNS, HEART ANSWERS: SERMONS AND SPEECH (1996). HER ORATORIL TALENTS HAVE DRAWN PARISONS TO HER FATHER'S, AND MA HER A SOUGHT-AFTER SPEAKER.IN 1980, KG ADDRSED THE UNED NATNS ABOUT APARTHEID (STEPPG FOR HER MOTHER). AND SHE ENERGIZED THE CROWD AT EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH ON MART LUTHER KG JR. DAY 1993 WH A QUTN: "MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IS NOT ENOUGH TO SAY THAT WE MARCHED WH DR. KG 25 OR EVEN 30 YEARS AGO. WE NEED TO ASK OURSELV, 'WHAT ARE WE DOG NOW?'"EARLY LIFE AND CALL TO MISTRYKG WAS A QUIET, SHY CHILD — NICKNAMED "BUNNY" — WHO WANTED TO BEE THE UNTRY'S FIRST BLACK FEMALE PRINT. WH HER FATHER'S WORK AND TRAVEL, SHE WAS LEFT WH FEW MEMORI OF HIM, THOUGH SHE DO RELL KISSG HIS FOREHEAD WHEN HE WOULD E HOME. SHE SOMETIM FELT ANGRY AND ABANDONED BEE HER FATHER WAS NO LONGER THERE.WHEN KG WAS 16 AND AWAY WH A CHURCH YOUTH GROUP, SHE SAW A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. AT A MENTN OF HER FATHER'S FUNERAL, SHE BURST TO TEARS AND FLED OUTSI. FOR A TIME SHE DOUBTED HER MMENT TO GOD, BUT AT 17 SHE FELT LLED TO THE MISTRY.KG NTEMPLATED SUICI HER 20S, A CRISIS THAT HELPED HER ACCEPT THE LL TO PREACH. SHE GAVE HER FIRST SERMON AT EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH MARCH 1988, FOLLOWG HER FATHER AND GRANDFATHER'S FOOTSTEPS. IN 1990, SHE WAS ORDAED AT EBENEZER. SHE SOON WAS SERVG AS A MISTER AT THE GREATER RISG STAR BAPTIST CHURCH.NEW BIRTH MISSNARY BAPTIST CHURCHKG WENT ON TO BEE A -PASTOR AT NEW BIRTH MISSNARY BAPTIST CHURCH, A MEGACHURCH HEAD BY BISHOP EDDIE LONG. WHILE THERE, SHE PARTICIPATED A 2004 MARCH THAT LLED FOR A "RETURN TO FAY VALU" AND A BAN ON GAY MARRIAGE (THIS SET KG APART OM CORETTA, WHO SAW A LK BETWEEN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND LGBT RIGHTS).KG LEFT NEW BIRTH 2011, AROUND THE TIME LONG REACHED A SETTLEMENT WH YOUNG MEN WHO'D ACCED HIM OF ERCG THEM TO SEXUAL RELATNSHIPS, THOUGH SHE SAID THIS WAS NOT THE REASON FOR HER CISN.MARRIAGE EQUALYIN 2004, KG STATED ABOUT HER FATHER'S ATH: "I KNOW EP DOWN MY SANCTIFIED SOUL THAT HE DID NOT TAKE A BULLET FOR SAME-SEX UNNS." AND SHE SAID 2013, "I VALUE MARRIAGE BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN," THOUGH ALSO NOTG WAS ULTIMATELY SOCIETY'S CISN TO MAKE.AFTER THE 2015 SUPREME COURT CISN THAT GRANTED SAME-SEX UPL THE RIGHT TO MARRY, KG ISSUED A STATEMENT VIA THE KG CENTER THAT SAID PART, "IT IS MY SCERE PRAYER ... THAT THE SUPREME COURT LG ENURAG THE GLOBAL MUNY TO RPECT AND EMBRACE ALL LGBT GLOBAL CIZENS WH DIGNY AND LOVE."CONTUED LEARSHIPKG WAS JT 5 MONTHS OLD WHEN HER FATHER, HIS FAMO "I HAVE A DREAM" SPEECH, HOPED "THAT MY FOUR LTLE CHILDREN WILL ONE DAY LIVE A NATN WHERE THEY WILL NOT BE JUDGED BY THE LOR OF THEIR SK BUT BY THE NTENT OF THEIR CHARACTER." THOUGH THIS DAY HAS NOT YET ARRIVED, WH HER SPEECH, PREACHG, MENTORG, WORK AT THE KG CENTER AND BEYOND, KG HAS HELPED PH THE UNTRY CLOSER TO HER FATHER'S {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

Then she said ‘heterosexual or homosexual, ’ and then backed up and said ‘lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr. In 2004, Kg was an elr at Bishop Eddie Long’s New Birth Missnary Baptist Church and the two led a march of thoands through the streets of Atlanta to prott, among other issu, gay marriage.

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First time I’ve ever heard her say lbian, gay, bi and trans out loud, ” she said.

“She said homosexual at first and then rrected herself. In 2005, Bernice was cricized for llg out for a nstutnal ban on gay marriage.

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Kg told Burns: People have labeled me homophobic. If I was homophobic, I wouldn’t have iends who are gay and lbian, so that n’t be te.

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