Posts Tagged ‘Civil Rights’
Bayard Rustin Speaks
My post today is unique because today is unique: the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Bayard Rustin, an unsung organizer of the march and the movement, was interviewed by my friend Mark Bowman for the quarterly publication Open Hands in 1987, the year of Rustin’s death. As subsequent editor of the magazine, I republished the…
Read MoreRemembering Will Campbell: A Champion For Social Justice
One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me as a child was an awareness of my own privilege. Both of my parents grew up as white children in the segregated and violent Jim Crow South. They spent their adulthood trying to make sense of the experience by instilling in me and my brother a…
Read MoreCivil Rights Groups And LGBT Groups Join Forces For Marriage Equality
Reverend Donte Hickman believes that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, and he will not marry same-sex couples at his church in Baltimore. Nonetheless, for months, he has been advocating in favor of the Civil Marriage Protection Act, which allows gays and lesbian couples to get a civil marriage license from…
Read MoreA Community Stands Against Hate Crimes After Nebraska Woman Attacked
UPDATE: We recently learned that the Nebraska woman who claimed she was a victim of an anti-gay hate crime, lied to police. The content below reflects the communities response to what they believed at the time was a brutal attack motivated by hate. This is saddening on many levels. According to reports, a woman…
Read MoreThe Arc Of The Moral Universe Bends Toward Marriage Equality: The Conference Of Moral Citizenship
America cannot be ruled by biblical law, or else it is not America.
Read MoreThoughts From A Gay Man Of Faith
A gay man of faith reflects on NC's Amendment One
Read MoreDéjà Vu All Over Again: NOM’s Wedge Strategy References Old Anti-Civil Rights Playbook
Déjà Vu All Over Again: NOM’s Wedge Strategy References Old Anti-Civil Rights Playbook
Read MoreAudacious Activism In The Fight For LGBT Equality
I have a friend in Dayton, OH who just pulled off an act of delightfully bold LGBT activism. A long-time, anti-LGBT City Commissioner, now up for re-election, let his website domain name lapse. My friend – with an eye (and a plan) for stupid mistakes – took it over and is now reminding visitors to…
Read MoreGays Are Us: Why LGBT Equality Is Not A “White” Issue
At last month’s 102nd annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a historic workshop focused on overcoming homophobia within the black community. As an African American, heterosexual, male pastor of a traditionally black Baptist church in the inner city of Washington, D.C., I was glad to see this legendary organization…
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