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King would have supported gay 'marriage,' (Commie) ex-aide says
Washington Times ^ | 1/14/05 | Robert Stacy McCain

Posted on 01/13/2005 10:18:41 PM PST by kattracks

Martin Luther King Jr. would have supported same-sex "marriage," a former aide to the slain civil rights leader said last night at an event sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Museum.
    Speaking of King's "Christian commitment to a socially conscious democracy," former Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) activist Jack O'Dell asked, "Why would he exclude people because of their sexual preference?"
    The homosexual rights movement is "another dimension of the struggle for human rights," Mr. O'Dell said at an annual observance of King's birth, held at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He described as "unconscionable" the November passage of ballot initiatives against same-sex "marriage" in 11 states. An October survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies found that blacks were more likely than whites to oppose recognition of same-sex "marriage": 46 percent of blacks and 37 percent of whites said they opposed any recognition of homosexual unions; 29 percent of whites and 23 percent of blacks favored it.
    Mr. O'Dell, 81, now an international affairs consultant to the National Rainbow Coalition, was dismissed from the staff of King's SCLC after a June 1963 White House meeting during which President Kennedy urged the civil rights leader to purge communists from his organization. According to King biographer Taylor Branch, President Kennedy put his hand on King's shoulder and urged him to "get rid of" Mr. O'Dell and another SCLC aide, Stanley Levinson. Both men, the president said, had been identified as communist officials by the FBI, which named Mr. O'Dell as the fifth-ranking member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

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A Detroit native who now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mr. O'Dell said Canada is ahead of the United States in creating the kind of society King advocated.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communistparty; homosexualrights; kingholiday; martinlutherking; mlkjr; rainbowcoalition
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1 posted on 01/13/2005 10:18:41 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks

I don't know why, but this story makes me ROFLMAO!


2 posted on 01/13/2005 10:20:28 PM PST by Hildy ( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
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To: kattracks

I don't agree that King would accepted gay marriage.

In face, the dems won't mention it, but a lot of black Baptists voted for Bush because of the gay marriage and abortion issues.


3 posted on 01/13/2005 10:22:29 PM PST by CyberAnt (Where are the dem supporters? - try the trash cans in back of the abortion clinics.)
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To: kattracks
and John F. Kennedy would have supported adultery laws.
4 posted on 01/13/2005 10:22:58 PM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: kattracks
Well of course King was homosexual. He was trying to emulate his hero Lincoln.

(I'll bet this thesis would get someone a book deal nowadays).

5 posted on 01/13/2005 10:23:32 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: kattracks

I don't think so. When the Gay guy down the street gets into his $55,000 dollar Mercedes and drives away from his $400,000 dollar condo and complains he just doesn't have any rights...makes me wanna barf.


6 posted on 01/13/2005 10:24:41 PM PST by Dallas59 ("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
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To: Andy from Beaverton
John F. Kennedy would have supported adultery laws

Kennedy was gay. All that fooling around with Monroe or whomever rumor was cover up.

(another book deal).

7 posted on 01/13/2005 10:24:56 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: kattracks
Speaking of King's "Christian commitment to a socially conscious democracy," former Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) activist Jack O'Dell asked, "Why would he exclude people because of their sexual preference?" "

He may not have have excluded gays

But he also wouldn't have condoned the gay life style

9 posted on 01/13/2005 10:25:48 PM PST by Mo1 (Does the distinguished Sen from VT wish to act as our treaty rep. for negotiations with Al Queda?)
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To: kattracks
Martin Luther King Jr. would have supported same-sex "marriage,"

I believe Mr. O'Dell is correct. I think it would be fitting if we combine the MLK birthday celebration with Gay and Lesbian Day.

10 posted on 01/13/2005 10:25:58 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (Fraud is the lifeblood of the Democratic Party)
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To: Hildy

Gee, I don't know why. I think it's highly edifying to know that the Washington Times is taking seriously the statements of a senile, expatriate, communist flunky.

/TIC


11 posted on 01/13/2005 10:26:18 PM PST by shibumi (Sum Ergo Flatulo)
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To: kattracks
The truth is that we will never know because MLK is DEAD!

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

12 posted on 01/13/2005 10:26:23 PM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: kattracks

And he might have given up working for civil rights to pursue video games full time with the advent of the Atari. We'll never know; he's dead...


13 posted on 01/13/2005 10:28:50 PM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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To: blahdeblah
Who the hell cares what he would've thought?

Are you gay?


...because if you are I think you could get a book deal writing about who you think was gay.

14 posted on 01/13/2005 10:30:19 PM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: kattracks

Gee Whiz, maybe We should drop the charges against Mikey Jackson!


15 posted on 01/13/2005 10:32:05 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: kattracks

Who cares?


16 posted on 01/13/2005 10:38:56 PM PST by Apercu ("Rep ipsa loquitor")
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To: Hildy

---I don't know why, but this story makes me ROFLMAO!---

It's funny stuff, that's why! :^)

---Mr. O'Dell, 81, now an international affairs consultant to the National Rainbow Coalition, was dismissed from the staff of King's SCLC after a June 1963 White House meeting during which President Kennedy urged the civil rights leader to purge communists from his organization.---


17 posted on 01/13/2005 10:40:41 PM PST by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: kattracks
"The homosexual rights movement is 'another dimension of the struggle for human rights'...."

So with the same "logic" one must conclude Dr. King would be pro-life? For without question the struggle for an unborn chlid to escape its murderous parents and procedure provider and simply live is "another dimension of the struggle for human rights...."
18 posted on 01/13/2005 10:59:16 PM PST by Chummy (Liberals -- the other Red meat.)
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To: Hildy
I don't know why, but this story makes me ROFLMAO!

The funny thing is, O'Dell has gone from being pro-Soviet to being pro-Canadian without ever once altering his anti-Americanism!

19 posted on 01/13/2005 11:12:13 PM PST by Madstrider (The right wing conspiracy isn't really so vast -- we just work overtime)
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To: Madstrider
To wit:

Mr. O'Dell remained a staunch defender of communism for decades. At a 1985 event in Berkeley, Calif., on the 68th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Mr. O'Dell called U.S. opposition to the Soviet Union "an integral part of the belief system of racism and Western national chauvinism."

Last night, Mr. O'Dell condemned the United States for its "aggressive militarism," and called for a "new Reconstruction" to eliminate economic inequality.

A Detroit native who now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Mr. O'Dell said Canada is ahead of the United States in creating the kind of society King advocated.

"Canada has a socially conscious democracy — not as advanced as Europe, but way ahead of the United States," he said.

20 posted on 01/13/2005 11:17:33 PM PST by Madstrider (The right wing conspiracy isn't really so vast -- we just work overtime)
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