There is no connection between one’s ability to experience God during worship and a gay person singing His praises in that same worship service. Positioning a targeted group as inherently morally inferior is the same tool of oppression that whites have historically used against blacks (the Bible was used to justify black moral inferiority, slavery, and to position whites as morally superior).
Perhaps Minister Wicks is not aware that Bayard Rustin, the master planner behind the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King King’s historic March on Washington, was an openly gay black man and a person who helped instill in King the principles of non-violence.
The dominant white often delights in this wasted energy of the oppressed oppressing the oppressed, because while the oppressed (blacks) spend energy oppressing the oppressed (black homosexuals), the dominant white culture retains their dominant power position. Minister Wicks has bought into this white game.
Steven Koehler
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