Email about gay wedding creates controversy for Morehouse

[ccharles000]

Morehouse College President Robert Franklin is promising to take "prompt and appropriate action" after two members of his staff forwarded an email of a stylish gay wedding ceremony and one made anti-gay comments.


The email, sent to Southern Voice after making the rounds through Fulton County government, included the following lines from Sandra Bradley, an administrative assistant who works in Franklin’s office. The email includes more than a dozen pictures that show a lavish wedding ceremony between two unidentified black gay men earlier this month.

“I can’t believe this wedding. It’s 2 men. They don’t smile in a lot of pictures and they look like a few brothers I’ve seen in the streets looking STRAGHT. Black women can’t get a break, either our men want another man, a white woman (or other nationality that’s light with straight hair), they are locked up in jail or have a “use to be” fatal disease. I’m beginning to believe Eve was a black woman and we Black women are paying for all the world’s sins through her actions (eating the apple)," Bradley wrote.

Bradley appears to have received the email from a coworker at Morehouse, both of whom used their work email addresses.

http://www.sovo.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=27431

[Kookaburra]

1. Sounds like Ms. Bradley can't get a date and is blaming

everything and everyone except herself for that.

[MrScorpio]

2. I guess that she'll take them either straight OR gay

Pickin's is slim

[Toasterlad]

3. That's Anti-Gay?

Compared to the usual shit we're exposed to, that's a valentine to homosexuality. All she's doing is bitching because she can't find a man. She certainly shouldn't lose her job over this.

[RidinMyDonkey]

5. I certainly think it is anti-gay

"I can't believe this wedding. It's 2 men. "

You really don't think that's anti-gay?

In the age where we are fighting for the right for 2 men to legally be married to each other, for her to say she can't believe it, I think is very anti-gay. If she was only complaining about not being able to find a man that comment is not necessary. She's blaming an entire community (Actually two or three) for not being able to find a man. I think it's almost equivalent to the assholes that claim gay marriage somehow hurts or makes their marriage invalid.

I don't know, I just came off a prop. 8 website and I'm all cranky. It's already a touchy subject and I'm sensitive to it. Maybe others don't think it's a big deal. I'm not sure what her punishment should be. Maybe fired is a bit harsh, but at the very least I think she should issue an apology, to the person who sent the email and perhaps to the couple, since this has become a media target.

[Toasterlad]

6. I Think It's the Way You're Reading It.

I think you're reading it as "It's two men! That's gross!", whereas I'm reading it as "It's two men! Two men who are marrying each other, and not me!"

Given the rest of her message, I believe my interpretation is correct.

[ccharles000]

7. I agree

[Brooklyns_Finest]

8. I agree with you

She is griping about the relationship problems that many black women are having. I don't see it as a big deal.

[LoZoccolo]

4. Interesting that she's being called out on the gay controversy and not the racial one. n/t