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Civil Rights Movement Being “Gay-Jacked”?

October 23rd, 2007 by Stephanie Stevens

Good thing it’s not being “trans-jacked” as well :roll:

“In recent years there has been a strange reversal of things,” Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr., founder and chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition, said Friday.

“[A]ggressive activists who are involved in gay rights have made an odd role reversal,” he continued. “In the name of liberty this group has begun to infringe upon the liberty and rights of others.”

Jackson was speaking in reference to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), HR 3685, which seeks to make it illegal for employers to make decisions on hiring, firing, promoting or paying an employee based on sexual orientation.

The bill, if passed, would add “sexual orientation” to a list of federally protected classes under a 1964 act that prohibits job discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

Jackson, who represents thousands of black ministers, said the black civil rights movement is being “hijacked” by gay activists who claim the gay employment issue is similar to the black civil rights issue.

Evangelicals Lambaste Homosexual Employment Bill

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“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.” — Rosa Parks

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2 Responses

  1. Monica Roberts Says:

    Ho hum. Harry and his Homobigots are at it again.

  2. kelii Busey Says:

    It’s a sin when someone who claims a special relatoonship with my higher power lobbys against human rights.