Learning from MLKJr.: The Powers of Love and Forgiveness

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Monday December 22, 2008 · 3:27 PM PST

2008/12/22 · 15:27

Dailykos has been filled with diaries about Rick Warren and the queer community. Forgive me for adding onto this pile, but I wouldn't write this if I didn't think that that I had something important to say.

Anger can be a helpful and protective response to wrongdoing, but anger can also be an obstacle. Personally, I have been pondering how my anger and the anger of my fellow members of the queer community could be directed and used so that it is helpful, so that my anger can be used to further the queer rights movement. Today, I came across some writings about and by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and I was struck by his words. I propose that the Warren controversy represents an opportunity for the queer community to reflect on it's goals and purposes, learn from civil rights victories in the past, and move forward with a renewed perspective on how to make our goals reality.

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