Farrakhan voted BET 2005 Person of the Year. This is why it is necessary to have a conference on homophobia in the black community.
If this anti-Semitic homophobe can be held up as a model of what the best the black community has to offer in terms of leadership, it's a sad state of affairs indeed.
"An overwhelming percentage of our users agreed that Minister Farrakhan made the most positive impact on the Black community over the past year and chose him as the person most worthy to receive the honor of BET.com's 2005 Person of the Year," said Retha Hill, BET.com's vice president for Content.
They agreed that he has done what no other Black leader has: "mobilize hundreds of thousands of Blacks around the issues of atonement and empowerment, and to convince the masses of our people that we must be the primary catalysts and engines for positive change in our communities," she said.
Yes, the positive change and empowerment just doesn't apply to the black LGBT community.
Naming Farrakhan is particularly offensive when some of the other nominees were Oprah Winfrey, Senator Barack Obama, Robert L. Johnson (the father of BET) and the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Farrakhan, you may recall, chose as his head co-organizer of the Millions More March, the esteemed Rev. Willie Wilson ("lesbians are taking over"), who was responsible for banning National Black Justice Coalition's Keith Boykin from the stage at the event. That says it all, doesn't it?
Where are the mainstream black leaders on this nonsense? I guarantee this will get very little play in the MSM.
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And while we're at it, what about Justice Sunday III's tokens?
Ready to spew on January 8: Daddy Dobson, Dr. Alveda C. King, Bishop Wellington Boone (The Father's House), Tony Perkins (Family Research Council), Rev. Herbert Lusk (Greater Exodus Baptist Church), Senator Little Ricky Santorum, Rev. Tinkywinky.
Justice Sunday III - "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land" will be held on Sunday, January 8 2006. It's the scintillating follow-up to "Justice Sunday II - God Save the United States and this Honorable Court."
One day before the Senate begins confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, conservatives will gather in Philadelphia for another "Justice Sunday," hoping to put the spotlight once again on socially liberal court rulings.
They hope to "educate people of faith on how the judiciary impacts their lives and to show how activist judges seek to end all mention of God in the public square."
As you can see, the AmTaliban has its splash of color up there for the big shindig, all prominently featured on the web site. Sadly, one of them is the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Alveda C. King. She and the civil rights leader's daughter Bernice are no friend of gays (Coretta Scott King on the other hand, is a strong supporter of gay rights). Alveda has been quoted as saying "Bernice says herself that she knows deep within that her father did not march and did not take a bullet for same-sex marriage."
Herb Lusk is another pastor at the faith-based trough. He had his coffers filled with a cool million by the Administration to run faith-based initiatives, and he gave the invocation at the 2000 Republican convention. Lusk called Bush's 2004 win "a great victory."
Wellington Boone came and soiled the Tar Heel State with FRC's Tony Perkins and our buddy from Concerned Women for America, Bob Knight, appearing at a "Traditional Marriage Rally" on last May in support of a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions. Thankfully the gathering was a flop and the bill died in committee.
It's all shameful.