[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by amber

And if he didn't, then his logical credibility for all his other beliefs would have been shot to heck. I hope he would've but i wonder if he would've struggled, since he was a minister... Unfortunately, we'll never know. Has anyone heard Jesse Jackson have an opinon on this? He must, i just haven't heard it.

I've come to really despise Jesse Jackson after reading some of his comments about the gay rights movement. He said that gay rights are not civil rights. He's mainly pissed that the struggle for gay rights has been compared to the struggle for African-American rights. He says there is no comparison. He likes to point out that gays were never considered 3/5 of a person. That is a good point, but I do not think that should downplay what gays have endured as well. To my knowledge, the DSM-IV never said that blacks were mentally ill merely because they were black. Both minorities have suffered, and I think we need to stick together, but Jackson has no interest in that.

And I would never compare my plight to that of a slave! I don't know any gays who have done that.

Here's a PlanetOut article about Jackson's stance--
http://www.planetout.com/news/articl...l?2004/02/17/6

I hate how he says that he does support some rights for gays, such as their "right of choice to choose their own partners." Wow! That's great! So, when I finally get around to dating, I have Rev. Jesse Jackson's approval. I can officially date who I want. Fantastic.

As for Martin Luther King, Jr., I know he was a minister, but I really think he would've understood gay rights. I think he would have been one of the particularly enlightened religious leaders who not read the Bible as condemning of homosexuality.

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