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Award Inspired by Martin Luther King Goes to ... Antigay Justice Roy Moore
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2015/04/17/award-inspired-martin-luther-king-goes-antigay-justice-roy-mooAlabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who has led efforts to block marriage equality in his state, is receiving an award today that will undoubtedly strike some observers as odd — the Letter From Birmingham Jail Courage Award, named for a famous document written by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Coalition of African-American Pastors, a conservative group that describes itself as “a new movement for faith, family, and justice,” is presenting the award to Moore for his “principled and persuasive stand for marriage,” the group’s president, Rev. William Owens, said in a press release announcing the award. It is the first such award, and it’s scheduled to be presented this morning on the steps of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery, just down the street from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where King began his ministerial career.
Moore has said same-sex marriage threatens to destroy the nation and that Alabama officials are not constitutionally bound to follow a federal judge’s rulings striking down the state’s ban on such marriages. Marriage equality came to Alabama in February as a result of those rulings, but the state Supreme Court halted issuance of licenses to same-sex couples in March. LGBT legal groups are continuing to seek equal marriage rights statewide....
King never publicly addressed LGBT rights, but his widow, Coretta Scott King, was an outspoken LGBT ally and marriage equality supporter. “I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people,” she said in 2000, six years before her death.
The Coalition of African-American Pastors, a conservative group that describes itself as “a new movement for faith, family, and justice,” is presenting the award to Moore for his “principled and persuasive stand for marriage,” the group’s president, Rev. William Owens, said in a press release announcing the award. It is the first such award, and it’s scheduled to be presented this morning on the steps of the Alabama Supreme Court building in Montgomery, just down the street from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where King began his ministerial career.
Moore has said same-sex marriage threatens to destroy the nation and that Alabama officials are not constitutionally bound to follow a federal judge’s rulings striking down the state’s ban on such marriages. Marriage equality came to Alabama in February as a result of those rulings, but the state Supreme Court halted issuance of licenses to same-sex couples in March. LGBT legal groups are continuing to seek equal marriage rights statewide....
King never publicly addressed LGBT rights, but his widow, Coretta Scott King, was an outspoken LGBT ally and marriage equality supporter. “I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people,” she said in 2000, six years before her death.
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