I saw this and think it is important to share with our community here:
"The NAACP is opposed to discrimination in all its forms." Jealous said in an e-mail, adding, "We recognize that many of our members are also members of the LGBT community, and just as the LGBT community counts on us to stand with it for basic civil rights protections, so we count on the LGBT community to stand with us in our unified struggle for the broader civil rights agenda. "
WaPo: NAACP leaders reaching out to gay rights groups
Even as the NAACP engages in a tense debate over the issue of same-sex marriage, the group's leaders have begun reaching out more forcefully to gay rights groups.
The outreach has been steered by former chairman Julian Bond and the group's president, Benjamin Jealous. Both men are supporters of same-sex marriage rights, though the NAACP's national board has taken no stance on the issue.
Bond, who spoke at the National March for Equality organized by gay rights groups last fall, has compared the push for same-sex marriage to the civil rights movement of the 1960s - which he helped to lead. Bond also testified before the Senate last year in support of a law that would have barred the government from discriminating against gays and lesbians in its distribution of family reunification visas.
WaPo: NAACP leaders reaching out to gay rights groups
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would understand:
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
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An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself.
"Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Heterosexuals are "a numerical or power majority group [that] compels a minority group [GLBTErs] to obey but does not make binding on itself."
They can marry, but GLBTers cannot. They can serve in the military while speaking of their sexual preference, while GLBTers cannot. These are unjust laws that are not deserving of obedience.
I am very glad that current NAACP leaders are living up to Dr. King's vision.