CYNTHIA TUCKER IS MORALLY WRONG     
Tuesday, March 16, 2004

I think I have heard and read it all on same-sex marriage and then I am given a copy of Cynthia Tucker’s Atlanta Journal Constitution, March 14, article and I am floored that anyone would give her a platform from which to sprew her poison.

Her article this past Sunday was entitled “Blacks Flee Gays, Can’t Flee AIDS.” The title alone is absurd because blacks do not flee gays. Only recently the front page of the AJC carried an article about how black homosexuals seek to live in Atlanta, Georgia. Would black homosexuals want to come to Atlanta if some in
the black community did not embrace them? I don’t think so.

But Ms. Tucker said the black community exhibited a “casual homophobia” toward gays and it was this “knee-jerk bigotry” that keeps black gays in the closet and contributes to the rise of HIV! Give me a break.

Surely, she had a bad day and didn’t know what she was writing. Has she ever considered that the reason black homosexuals do not want to tell of their homosexual activities is because they know it is immoral? The black community’s leadership needs to step up to the plate and tell the world that the black civil right movement does not compare to the homosexual community’s demand for marital equality. The black community’s struggle for freedom was a moral cause and a legitimate fight against discrimination.

In Leonard Pitts article in the March 13, Greensboro News and Record, he quoted Hilary Shelton, Director of the Washington NAACP, as saying the amendment outlawing same-sex marriage would discriminate. However, Rev. Richard Richardson, Chairman of political affairs for the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston said, “definitely marriage as the union of a woman and a man
is not discrimination,” and continuing he said, “and I find it offensive to call it that”

It appears the black community needs to hear from more levelheaded black leaders like Rev. Richardson. He knows that to allow same-sex marriage, black or white, is wrong and would ultimately destroy the God ordained institution of marriage and family.

For Cynthia Tucker to say that protecting marriage as one man and one woman keeps blacks in the closet and contributes to the rise of HIV is asinine. Being a black American and being homosexual are two different things. One can’t change his or her skin color, but one can choose not be become a homosexual. And let me assure you that to protect the institution of marriage between one man and one woman will never keep a black homosexual in the closet. Many black men for decades have discarded home, children, and the institution of marriage.

Never forget friends, the homosexual agenda is to redefine the family and it will cause the sanctity of marriage to become meaningless. Homosexuals and lesbians, both black and white, want special benefits. Have you stopped to think what legalizing same-sex marriage would cost this country both financially and morally? We would never recover.

Why doesn’t Ms. Tucker ever consider the immoral consequences to same-sex marriages? Why does she and others supporting the homosexual agenda never consider the children who will be deprived of stability and security in a home with a mom and dad?