Brody's Scribbles... Never Say Never; Anti-Gay Marriage Advocates In DC File Emergency High Court Action

By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) Mar 2 | You gotta hand it to those black ministers and others opposed to Gay Marriage eh? After being shot down numerous times by the city of Washington D.C.'s elections board culminating with the D.C. Court of Appeals denying a request by a Maryland minister for an injunction to block the city’s same-sex marriage law from taking effect March 3, Harry Jackson & Company in a last minute act of desperation filed court papers Monday with Chief Justice John Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court. The coalition is asking the high court put D.C.'s recently enacted law, due to take effect tomorrow, on hold. 

Now, outside of the fact that Reverend Jackson is essentially carpet bagging his way into D.C. politics with his questionable "residency," which was oh so conveniently established just as his coalition commenced its campaign, [ Jackson's principal residence & church are in suburban Maryland ] Jackson’s crusade to strip LGBT people of the equal protection under D.C. law never seems to end. Its almost got a Don Quixote de la Mancha feel to it. Never say never eh Harry?

Here's something else that really is annoying. Harry has among his fans and supporters, one Baptist minister, Walter E. Fauntroy, who was Washington's delegate in the U. S. Congress for nearly 20 years. But wait! Fauntroy was also a confident of Civil Rights Icon, Dr. Martin Luther King.  

Walter E. Fauntroy     Photo By Andrew Councill    The New York Times
Fauntroy met the then 22-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., while he was a student at Virginia Union University. The two men formed a fast friendship that began with a single all-night discussion of theology. Fauntroy later joined King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and upon his return to Washington, D.C., became an influential lobbyist for civil rights in Congress. Fauntroy also helped to coordinate the seminal 1963 March on Washington at which King gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Yup, so here we have another example of a man who preaches love & equality and turns right around and openly disses LGBT folk, some of whom marched with him & Dr. King. This just sickens me and angers me that Fauntroy claims he stands for justice & equality, peace & good will, blah, blah, blah, and then champions this kind of bias & bigotry. Shame on him.

This action by Fauntroy, Jackson, and the rest of DC's Anti-Gay coalition exemplifies the depth of the hatred the Christiban hold LGBT people in and the extremes that they are willing to go to in their efforts to insure that Gay people have no rights.