THE EDITOR, Sir:
I AM appealing to the gay and lesbian community to stop comparing their movement to the civil rights struggle. While the major media reporters in North America seem obsessed, even biased toward advancing the cause of the gay community hoping for the approval of every item on their agenda, (and there are many) hardly anyone is speaking up for the other side those who do not agree with their movement.
Whenever the gay and lesbian movement receive a setback in their fight for equality they do not hesitate to compare their movement to the civil rights struggle. I consider this to be an insult to our black brothers who died in the civil rights struggle and for our freedom. For the gay community to compare their agenda to the civil rights struggle is nothing more than a cheap ploy to evoke an emotional response from a few sympathetic people toward their cause.
The gays choose their lifestyle that's why they have labelled their way of life "alternate lifestyle". Us blacks had no such luxury or choices. We could not switch colour to avoid persecution so we had to bear the burden for being born black in a white society that relishes killings, lynching and murders of its black people. The civil rights struggle was based on faith, a spirit of hope that one day God would free us from bondage. In spite of insurmountable obstacles, the civil rights marchers refused to fight back, refused to hate, refused to stoop to violence but rather pressed forward with courage, dignity and strong moral values with Martin Luther King Jr. at the helm.
Sodom and Gomorrah started with a few homosexuals that perverted the cities into acceptance of its "alternate lifestyles." They ultimately incurred the wrath of God. Should we not learn from history?
I am, etc.,
KEITH SOUDEN
keithsaintpatrick
@hotmail.com
Brooklyn ew York
Via Go-Jamaica
