Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gay rights. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2016

Black leaders emerge as powerful allies in LGBT fight in U.S. South

The U.S. battle over bathrooms and wedding cakes is pushing many African-American leaders in the South to the forefront of the latest civil rights frontier, as the threat of discrimination overshadows long-held reservations on gay issues.

In Mississippi, black legislators have led calls to repeal their state's newly adopted law permitting those with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and impose dress and bathroom limits on transgender residents.

The president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Mississippi is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking to block the measure from taking effect on July 1. A federal judge was to hear testimony in the case on Thursday.

In North Carolina, dozens have been arrested at statehouse rallies organized by a diverse coalition led by the state NAACP conference to protest a new law barring transgender people from using the bathrooms of their choice.

"Here we are again, facing discrimination towards a group of people," said Sonya Williams Barnes, a Mississippi black lawmaker who opposed the measure and fears that her race could be the next target. "Who knows where that is going to lead to."

Just four years after President Barack Obama rocked the religious black community by supporting gay marriage, black leaders are becoming some of the most forceful allies in the fight against a recent wave of legislation seen as harmful to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people.

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Sunday, March 08, 2015

SNL’s Weekend Update Makes Fun Of Ben Carson "Gay" Comments

SNL‘s Weekend Update piled on Dr. Ben Carson for his comments about how prisons show being gay is a choice, because some people go in straight and come out gay.

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Coalition Of Black Pastors Speaks Out Against Gay Marriage


*Note: I strongly oppose the actions of this pastors. I don't see how a group that knows discrimination first hand can condone it being done to another group. But my opposition does not mean that this is not newsworthy. George Cook AfricanAmericanReports.com.

A coalition of black pastors have condemned gay marriage, saying it's incorrect to compare the fight for equal marriage rights to the civil rights movement. The Christian, conservative Thomas More Law Center filed an amicus brief in Michigan's gay marriage trial Wednesday on behalf of 110 black pastors from Detroit, elsewhere in Michigan, and Ohio. Watch more on this story below:


Sunday, February 09, 2014

NFL prospect Micheal Sam comes out as gay.

Michael Sam, an All-American defensive lineman from Missouri Tigers and the Associated Press' SEC Defensive Player of the Year, said that he is gay in interviews with ESPN's "Outside the Lines" and the New York Times on Sunday. Watch the "Outside the Lines" interview below: