"Gay" Is Not the New Black

A hometown report on some genuine community organizers who "have long opposed the march toward legal same-sex marriages" and are "also challenging the growing efforts of gay-marriage supporters to frame the issue as a civil rights cause" — Black clergy opposing gay marriage resent civil rights comparision.

"We feel the terminology, the definition itself, has really been hijacked," said the Rev. William Gillison of Mount Olive Baptist Church, calling it "another ploy to garner more support from people who may not understand what the civil rights struggle was all about."

"As an African-American, I don’t have a choice in the color of my skin," said Bishop Michael A. Badger of Bethesda World Harvest International Church. "I have a choice in whether I’m abstinent or not,” Badger said. “I don’t think you can compare the two."