Restoring Honor Rally at D.C. Today.

You need to remember. This was MLK of the 1960s. It is more than likely that he didn't support the idea of same-sex marriage because that idea alone would've been quite foreign at the time in the 1950s - 1960s. He would have more likely rejected that concept.
 
kokonut said:
You need to remember. This was MLK of the 1960s. It is more than likely that he didn't support the idea of same-sex marriage because that idea alone would've been quite foreign to him at the time in the 1950s - 1960s. He would have more likely rejected that concept because of his beliefs and devotion to God.
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No, you wouldn't know about him since he died in 45 years ago and gay rights in 50's/60's are not a big political issue in past.
 
kokonut said:
You need to remember. This was MLK of the 1960s. It is more than likely that he didn't support the idea of same-sex marriage because that idea alone would've been quite foreign at the time in the 1950s - 1960s. He would have more likely rejected that concept.
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it's 2010 now... and Alevda's still in 1960's?
 
AndyE9503 said:
I have never heard MLK say anything about gay rights but I will listen to his wife cause most likely she knew him best

Rod 2.0:Beta: Coretta Scott King on Gay Rights
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Because Coretta lived through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s to see the changes and her perception and opinion changed as well. But she's not the Reverend. MLK was. And his perception was based only up to the early 1960s. And if hiss belief is strong as he was back then then certainly his belief would be just as strong today like her niece Alevda King.

Same sex marriage was a completely foreign if not taboo subject back in the 1950s and 1960s to most of the population. It's completely different today where people are exposed to that. Remember Prop 8 in California? Blacks are known to be socially conservative than not, especially on same sex marriage.

60% of blacks think it should be illegal to only 28% who think it should be allowed. Whites support same sex marriage by a 48/47 margin, Hispanics with47/41 and Asians at 52/38 in a poll survey.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/gaymarriagetoplines.pdf
 
Come to Atlanta and there are many cool gay black men. :D
 
kokonut said:
Because Coretta lived through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s to see the changes and her perception and opinion changed as well. But she's not the Reverend. MLK was. And his perception was based only up to the early 1960s. And if hiss belief is strong as he was back then then certainly his belief would be just as strong today like her niece Alevda King.

Same sex marriage was a completely foreign if not taboo subject back in the 1950s and 1960s to most of the population. It's completely different today where people are exposed to that. Remember Prop 8 in California? Blacks are known to be socially conservative than not, especially on same sex marriage.

60% of blacks think it should be illegal to only 28% who think it should be allowed. Whites support same sex marriage by a 48/47 margin, Hispanics with47/41 and Asians at 52/38 in a poll survey.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/gaymarriagetoplines.pdf
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How do you know? Like I said I will listen to his wife over his niece.
 
See my post #326

I have different view to say about if MLK was alive today.

I agree with Andy about rather to listen with MLK's wife.

Remember about MLK's speech writer is gay, his name is Bayard Rustin.
 
AndyE9503 said:
How do you know? Like I said I will listen to his wife over his niece.
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I didn't say I knew. I said it was more than likely he would not approve simply because of his strong faith. He was the Reverend. I also pointed out in the California Prop 8 example on a poll how blacks are more socially conservative than not.


Meanwhile, in opposition to her own mother, King's youngest daughter Bernice said the following at a conference in Auckland, New Zealand: "I know deep down in my sanctified soul that he did not take a bullet for same-sex unions."

A few of those who "knew" King, including a friend of his from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Rev. Joseph Lowery, said if King were alive today, he would view marriage as a "private affair".

The reality is, King never spoke publicly about the issue of homosexuality and today, the frame of reference is quite different.
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kokonut said:
I didn't say I knew. I said it was more than likely he would not approve simply because of his strong faith. He was the Reverend. I also pointed out in the California Prop 8 example on a poll how blacks are more socially conservative than not.
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There are many reverends that bless gay unions. Your point?
 
Bill Clinton who created Marriage Defense Act admits that his views on gay marriage is "evolving."

Smart people evolve, stupid people don't... or worse, they devolve.
 
netrox said:
Bingo... and you THINK you know what he'd say?!?!

Al Sharpton supports gay marriage, doesn't he? Isn't he a Reverend too?

What about Jesse Jackson?
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I never said I would know what he'd say. I said it was more likely he'd not agree with the same sex marriage in his eyes. As for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, I think they've fallen....politically that is to suit their own race-baiting agendas.
 
That's ok, it is your opinion.

No one know about MLK on GLBT rights because he died in 1965 before GLBT rights started out of closet and strengthened.
 
Right, no one knows. Yet it is quite likely because of his strong faith and conviction in God would say otherwise.
 
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