Reverend Keith Ratliff, up until recently, was the president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP. Unfortunately, Reverend Keith is one of those who supports certain kinds of discrimination. You see, the NAACP supports marriage equality, because they walk their talk about equality and freedom for all people. Not Reverend Keith:
The Rev. Keith Ratliff, president of the Iowa-Nebraska conference of the NAACP, has decided to leave the civil rights organization over the national board’s decision last month to support same-sex marriage.
Ratliff, pastor of Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines, told church members this week he was resigning from the NAACP, church secretary Debra Brooks confirmed Wednesday.
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Ratliff has been an outspoken opponent of same-sex marriage, saying marriage should be between a man and a woman. During a March 2011 Iowa Statehouse rally by supporters of a state constitutional amendment to ban same-gender marriage, Ratliff complained that gay rights activists had “hijacked” the civil rights debate.
“There is no parallel” between gay rights activism and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, said Ratliff, whose church has a predominately black membership. “That is an insult to the civil rights movement.” He added, “Deviant behavior is not the same thing as being denied your right to vote.”
The late Coretta Scott King, Benjamin Jealous, Julian Bond and many other prominent Civil Rights leaders disagree, Reverend Ratliff.
[h/t Timothy Kincaid]
You’re right, reverend. There’s no parallel. Because, miscegenation laws aside, blacks could marry those who they loved.
Sorry, I must apologize and amend. Black gays and lesbians couldn’t marry their loved ones either. James Baldwin said something along the lines of “to affirm you’re not the bottom, you’ve got to point out by pecking order who the bottom is.” “Holy” men like Ratliff enjoy being on top of others.
How sad that his sin of homophobia is more important to him than Jesus’ commandments. I guess he has alread forgotten the time when Black people were not allowed to marry.
Its patriarchy these guys are so enthralled with. Men in charge and deciding what’s best for everybody else. Of course they always get the cream themselves.
I don’t hate homosexuals and never will. I am against them trying to force their “deviant behavior” on the world. If you say you don’t like it – they call you “homophobic.” Yes, I am homophobic against men/men and women/women having sexual relations with one another. Not against the person, but the behavior. Get it…
No gays are trying to force anyone to have gay sex so nothing is being forced on the world. It is bigots like you who are trying to force people to mold their sex lives to your desires.
@Priya, I am a “bigot” because I don’t approve of deviant sexual behavior (e.g., homosexuality, bestiality, pedophilia, etc). Gays are trying to force their agenda on everyone. Look at the way it is being taught in Massachusetts public schools. Kids don’t need to hear this stuff! BTW, same sex marriage has never won at the polls. It will continue to be that way because 99% of the world don’t accept it.
“againsthomosexualbehavior”: Why don’t you find somewhere else to air your ignorance? It won’t cut any ice with anyone on here.
@againsthomosexualbehaviour. Whatever. I don’t like not being able to marry. I don’t like being afraid to hold my husband’s hand in public because some numnuts might take exception and try to beat the crap out of us. I don’t really care what you think about my life, my marriage, or my occasional display of affction to my husband in public.
Considereing that I am dealing with a bigot who can’t even use proper grammar, I am sure that in a battle of wits you would be defenseless. You certainly are on here.
Some of the kids you whine about are GLBT, so even if you are offended we will work to make sure that they get positive messages instead of the hate messages you have put out here. Now go find a hate site like Stormfront or Freak Republic. I am sure you will be welcomed at either. Get it.