Jan 17, 2011
Illinois Family Institute Claims Dr. King Was A Bigot Who Hated Gays & Lesbians
Illinois Family Institute Hates Gay Black Men
The Illinois Family Institute (IFI), a registered hate group listed alongside the Klu Klux Klan and several other White Nationalist organizations, is hosting a press conference with several black ministers in a Chicago church today.
The Illinois Family Institute is promoting the idea that Dr. Martin Luther King hated Gay and Lesbian Americans and would approve discrimination and violence against the minority groups.
“The recent passage of the “civil unions” bill has been trumpeted by some lawmakers as an achievement to civil rights. It is not,” the anti-gay Illinois Family Institute (IFI) said in a press release.
The event organized by IFI is being held Monday, Jan. 17 at 10:30 a.m. at the Freedom Baptist Church in Hillside, a western suburb of Chicago.
“For years, homosexual activists have exploited an absurd and offensive analogy between homosexuality and race in order to advance their moral and political agenda,” the group said in a press release. “Homosexualists use the heroic battle to end racial discrimination as a Trojan Horse to eradicate moral judgments about homosexual conduct. All civilized persons — particularly African-Americans — should be outraged.”
The group said that religious leaders including Pastor Al Cleveland, Bishop Michael Love, Dr. Hiram Crawford, Dr. Eric Wallace, Pastor Larry Rogers and the Rev. Isaac C. Hayes, a member of the Illinois Coalition of Black Republicans, will speak at the event.
“Skin color is not analogous to behavior. To equate homosexuality to race is offensive and perverts the noble cause of a great man and an important movement in our history,” Illinois Family Institute executive director David Smith said in a press release.
It is shameful that the Illinois Family Institute would use the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King to promote violence and discrimination against a minority group in America. The fact that black leaders in the christian community would share a stage with the IFI to promote hatred and intolerance is a disgrace to the memory of Americas greatest civil rights champions.
Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Before her death, his widow, Coretta Scott King speculated that Dr. King would have supported gay rights, if he had lived.
The Illinois Family Institute’s views on Gay and Lesbian equality mirror those fond in the party platform of the Klu Klux Klan and stand in direct opposition to the equality Dr. King fought and died for.
Klu Klux Klan support a national law against the practice of homosexuality.
This is a Christian nation and the Bible condemns homosexual activity and the perversion of our society which it encourages.
It is no wonder both the Illinois Family Institute and Klu Klux Klan are listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups.
