September 28, 2006 - Issue 199 |
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Gay Rights are Civil Rights Julian Bond sees a frightening level of homophobia in the black community |
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Life long civil rights activist, teacher, thinker, writer and NAACP Board Chairman, Julian Bond continues to speak out for the civil rights of gay people. The 66-year-old Bond’s latest expression of his belief that gay rights are civil rights comes in an interview with AOL’s Black Voices, published this week (September 25, 2006). Black Voices asked Bond if it was his objective to change the mind of those who believe in Biblical literalism and others about gay marriage. He responded by saying,
Bond’s support for gay rights is not new. In an Ebony Magazine article he authored in July of 2004, he answered his own question: Are Gay Rights Civil Rights?
Black Voices advanced the belief that the Civil Rights movement had its foundation in the black church. Black Voices asked Bond how gay rights can advance when there is so much opposition coming from the pulpit.
Dr. Bond also asserted his long-held belief that a change in law is something that must happen if a movement is going to succeed. But he recognized that a challenge to the gay rights movement is the thinking about homosexuality in the black community.
Bond has always believed an important part of understanding the advancement of civil rights for any group of people is removing the idea that giving rights to one group damages another group’s rights. In regard to this issue of rights gained and lost, Bond told Black Voices the following:
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