In a diatribe against Barack Obama, titled, “Obama’s election heals ‘white guilt’ at the cost of life and family,” Martin Luther King’s niece, Alveda King, said that overturning the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) “would unleash a storm of sexual immorality such as America has never seen.”
Alveda went on to say that, “Obama gives a face to abortion.”
Her commentary is profoundly disturbing and her homophobia is off the charts. I’m sure that the late Coretta Scott King, a gay rights supporter, would not be proud of such anti-gay rhetoric.
Coretta once said that, “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.”
I agree with Coretta.
Well SOMEONE is earning her rightwing thinktank money.
One thing that is certain about Obama’s election is that conservative African-Americans are coming out of the woodwork to criticize him.
Alveda King is receiving no think tank money.
She and several other blacks have long been decrying the decimation of the black community, especiaclly by abortion — the leading cause of deaths among blacks, who die from abortion at 3x the ratio of blacks. These statements are not new.
Correx: “… blacks, who die from abortion at 3x the ratio of whites.”
So far I have not heard a single reason from those that support the DOMA (or anyone else for that matter) as to why allowing same-sex partners access to a social institution that is designed to encourage monogamy would “unleash a storm of sexual immorality.” Really, I thought that encouraging people to not be promiscuous was a good thing. Can anyone clue me into the argument made by these people?
From SourceWatch – “Dr. Alveda C. King-Tookes, niece of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a Senior Fellow at the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) where she is specialized in ‘Education Policy’ and ‘Civil Rights’”
AdTI is a part of the stable of conservative think tanks with their commentary regularly posted on the websites of the Cato Institute, Heartland Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Science and Environmental Policy Project and other websites.
Again from SourceWatch:
AdTI is very secretive about their income sources, refusing to divulge any funders, but we do know about some grants they have received.
Between 1988 and 2002, AdTI has received $1,723,900 (unadjusted for inflation) from conservative foundations [7], namely Bradley, Olin, Scaife, the Philip M. McKenna Foundation, and the Claude R. Lambe Foundation (a Koch Family Foundations).
Projects funded by these foundations include:
Bradley grants “to support education-reform research and activities”;
the “Teacher Choice Project”;
$50,000 to “support research on teacher unions and education reform” (Bradley, 2000)
$168,750 “to support research and writing on new tactics of U.S. progressive movement in the Post-Cold War era” (Bradley and Olin, 1998)
$30,000 for “the Action Plan for Defense Privatization, conducted by the Committee for the Common Defense” (Olin, 1995-1996)
$5,000 to “support promotion for The Democratic Century, a book by Gregory Fossedal” (Olin, 1998)
Conservative think-tank Capital Research Center reports funding by Fannie Mae, AT&T Foundation, and Amoco Foundation. [8
King-Tookes’s assertion that marriage causes sexual immorality is shocking and should be widely publicized.
If repealing DOMA would “unleash a storm of sexual immorality”, where was this storm of sexual immorality before DOMA was passed?
Priya, these idiots just pull these ridiculous assertions out of their asses and from that pinched looked on her face, Alstupida left the broomstick in there!