Gay Marriage is the #1 issue in America right now
At least that’s what our very unpopular president would have you to believe. In an attempt to rally his base and garner support, he’s going back to the old “Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve” political pandering. I’m not a registered Republican nor would I be considered a traditional conservative by no stretch of the imagination, but Bush is hoping that this wedge issue will inspire his base and entice sympathizers to jump back on his bandwagon.
Unfortunately some of my brothers and sisters of the clergy are doing just that.
Agape news quoted Rev. Richard Richardson of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston as saying the following in response to Bush’s renewed call for a marriage amendment:
“They never told us that the road would be easy, but we’ve come this far; with God on our side, we know we’re going to make it. So I’m pleased to stand with Americans of every race, color, and creed in the Alliance for Marriage.”
On the Black Ministerial Alliance’s website, of which Rev. Richardson is a member, they state that they “are committed to providing spiritual nurture for clergy, advocacy, and program services for the larger Black community. ”
I’d like to know what their definition of the “larger Black community” is. In my opinion, gay marriage and this amendment proposal by the president is not an issue that demands top priority among the Black community. What about the families affected by Hurricane Katrina? Do they have to wait until gay marriage is banned to get our collective and sustained attention? What about genocide in Darfur, Sudan, EAST AFRICA? Will our brothers and sisters back HOME understand that Africans in American were too tied up with the gay marriage issue to help out? What about the crumbling school systems in every major urban city? What about the rate at which prisons are built compared to schools in Black neighborhoods? What about gentrification and “redevelopment plans” negatively impacting Black families in DC, Harlem, Baltimore, Detroit, and Chicago? What about the occupation and daily casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan? (BRING OUR SOLDIERS HOME!!!)
Do not be fooled America. Do not be fooled Black America. Bush is like a desperate mouse caught in a mouse trap right now. He’d bite his own leg off to free himself from the eternal weight of knowing that history will label him a deceptive war monger who ran our country in the ground with debt and made us the bully of the world.
Lou Dobbs wrote a good piece on this issue. Click the link below to read.
CNN.com - Dobbs:�Gay marriage amendment sheer nonsense - Jun 7, 2006
