I Call This One BITCH, PLEASE (the photo caption, that is)

Now Reverend Lee has been summoned by the SCLC's national board to explain his advocacy on behalf of marriage equality or face being removed from his position.

In my view, the failure of the SCLC as a national organization to defend the dignity and equality of LGBT families disqualifies it as a civil rights organization.

The SCLC cloaks its support for inequality in religious rhetoric. I often hear the argument that religious African Americans are somehow required to be homophobic and to oppose marriage equality because of their deep commitment to Christian doctrine, practice, and belief. But this ignores that the primary distinguishing characteristic of African American Christianity is its rejection of oppressive biblical interpretation in favor of embracing a liberating and loving God. White enslavers used substantial biblical evidence to assert that God condoned slavery and required their meek submission to it. 

Click above to read the rest. The writer of the piece is the magnificent scholar/journalist Melissa Harris-Lacewell, whom you may remember from her throw down with Gloria Steinem during the election.

Sigh. Because Typepad is going through another period of suckage, only the first graph in the linked stuff above ACTUALLY links. I'm tired of fussing with it. This is a long-running problem they've not yet managed to fix.