Tracy Morgan's Homophobic Rant is About Black Manhood
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 30, 2011
While I will continue to argue that the African American community doesn't have patent on homophobia, it does, however, have a problem with it.
And Tracy Morgan, comedian and actor on NBC's "30 Rock," is another glaring example of the malady.
During a standup performance this month at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, Morgan's "intended” jokes about LGBT people were instead insulting jabs: "Gays need to quit being pussies and not be whining about something as insignificant as bullying.
"Gay is something that kids learn from the media and programming."
"I don't "f*cking care if I piss off some gays, because if they can take a f*cking dick up their ass... they can take a f*cking joke."
Morgan has publicly expressed his mea culpas to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the nation’s LGBT media advocacy and anti-defamation organization, and he has now - as part and parcel of his...
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Provincetown’s Not Safe for Black Lesbians
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 23, 2011
At the tip of Cape Code is the LGBTQ- friendly haven Provincetown, fondly called P-town, and known as the best LGBTQ summer resort on the East Coast. Of late, more lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people of color (POC) have not only begun vacationing in P-town, but we have also...
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Boston Pride Events Honored The Late Rev. Peter Gomes
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 16, 2011
Rev. Peter J. Gomes (1942 – 2011), the former Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard, died on February 28, but his soul was honored and his spirit partied with us at Boston Pride. By a vote of over 2,000 people, Gomes was nominated as one of Boston...
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Pride Celebrations?...Haven’t We Assimilated?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 9, 2011
As we all know, June is Pride Month for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities across the country - and parades abound. Unlike the revolutionary decade of the 1960s during which the air bred dissent, we LGBT people appear to be residing in a sanguine time - rebels without a cause, a...
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Are We Writers or Gay Writers?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 2, 2011
The 23rd annual Lambda Literary Awards, LLA, (also known as the “Lammys”) took place at New York’s School of the Visual Arts Theatre on May 26. And this red carpet event brought out our finest in LGBT literature and publishing traditions.Celebrities like Bryan Batt (Mad Men), former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, TV...
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In “Hot-lanta” You Stay “In the Closet” as CNN’s Don Lemon Did
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: May 26, 2011
CNN’s Don Lemon has penned a memoir, titled Transparent that will come out in September. And in writing his book, Lemon said, “the decision to come out happened organically.” One of the motivating reasons for Lemon, 45, now revealing his sexual orientation is because of the suicide of 18-year-old Rutgers University freshman...
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All About Chaz
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: May 12, 2011
The long awaited film Becoming Chaz, a documentary about Chaz Bon’s female-to-male (FTM) gender reassignment aired this week on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. It captures not only the arduous trek of coming out as transgender, but it also captures the universal experience we all face of coming out as true...
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Marriage Equality Film Comes to Harlem
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: May 5, 2011
African American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) communities have always existed in Harlem. And they have resided in Harlem since this former Dutch enclave became America’s Black Mecca in the 1920’s.The visibility of Harlem’s LGBT communities for the most part was forced to be on the “down low.” But...
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America’s Gay Confederate and Union soldiers
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: April 21, 2011
Queer Civil War buffs have been arguing for some time that the deafening silence around LGBT Confederate and Union soldiers suggests their very presence. And with this month commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, I went combing through Civil War annals to finds our queer...
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Using Blacks “For Saving America from the Bondage of Gay Marriage”
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: April 14, 2011
No faith community knows better than the Black Church how religion-based bigotry shapes prejudicial attitudes many white Americans once held toward African Americans in this country.Religious texts have been interpreted to justify some of this country’s worst crimes against our community, resulting in the legality of slavery, the lynching of...
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Malcolm X Was “Gay-for-Pay”
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: April 7, 2011
Before any of us in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities laud Malcolm X as our new gay icon or castigate him for being a black heterosexist nationalist on the “down low,” we might need to closely examine the recent revelation that for a period in his...
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The Gandhi None of Us Knew
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: March 31, 2011
It has been not quite a century since Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated in January 1948 at the age of 78 in New Delhi, India, and the bevy of hagiographies on him are now being replaced with truth-telling biographies on the Gandhi nobody knew.The most recent one is titled GREAT SOUL: Mahatma Gandhi...
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Like Black Church, St. Patrick’s Day Parades Are Anti-Gay
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: March 17, 2011
Irish and African-American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBT) communities share a lot in common when it comes to being excluded from iconic institutions in their communities. For LGBT African Americans, it’s the Black Church, and for LGBT Irish, it’s the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. St. Patrick’s Day has rolled around again, and like previous March 17th...
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Toxic Cosmetics Marketed to Black Women
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: March 10, 2011
Every International Women’s Day celebration I delight in knowing I’m in a sisterhood with women across the globe fighting for gender justice.But as lesbian women of African descent my struggle for justice intersects several fronts. And often times, it’s not only the nationally organized visible and vociferous movements in our...
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Rev. Peter Gomes: Accidental Gay Advocate
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: March 3, 2011
If during your tenure as a student at Harvard you did not encounter the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, you have not had the quintessential Harvard experience.For undergraduates, if they were paying attention, Gomes bookended their four-year experience at Harvard with his welcoming remarks during orientation and his baccalaureate address at...
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GLAAD Makes Black History with Black Media
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: February 17, 2011
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has done the unimaginable. It has cracked a firewall in black media with the two titans of black print and online news - Essence and Ebony.In October 2010, , the online companion to Essence Magazine, featured a newly wedded lesbian couple in its “Bridal Bliss” section -...
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Vodou’s Acceptance of Gays
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: February 10, 2011
In celebrating Black History Month this year I want our West African ancestral religious contributions to also be lifted up. One of them for me, as a lesbian, is the contribution of Vodun.Why?Because of its spiritual tenets of acceptance of all people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions.As one of...
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Saying Who We Are
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: February 3, 2011
Black History Month is that time of year when the achievements and courage of people of African descent are acknowledged and celebrated. However, for decades now, Black History Month has not once acknowledged or celebrated the contributions of its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.Our omission from the annals...
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Finally, Black Civil Rights Movement is dying
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: January 27, 2011
Last week Martin Luther King tributes were taking place across the nation. And the spirit of MLK and the courageous acts of our foremothers and forefather of civil rights movement are etched indelibly in many of our hearts. But the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King’s era of the...
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Huckleberry Finn and the N-Word
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: January 13, 2011
As Americans we have a hard time talking about race in this country when the n-word is not involved. And when this epithet is, predictably, we behave schizophrenically.And much of the kerfuffle is about who’s staking a claim on its use.The now recent kerfuffle concerning the n-word is focused on...
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Say What? Lesbian Priests Marrying Each Other!
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: January 6, 2011
All couples like to bring the New Year in on a loving note.And what better way for two lesbian priests of the Episcopal Church to demonstrate their commitment to each other than in holy matrimony.Before a jubilant crowd of 400 guests on New Year’s Day, the Rev. Mally Lloyd, former...
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Remember Our Homeless Gay Youth This Holiday
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: December 23, 2010
The holiday season is a difficult time of year many of us.Our culture’s egregious forms of commercialism always bother me — and its anemic recognition of other celebratory forms of this holiday season other than Christmas, like Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, and the celebration of the winter Solstice..Too often we see...
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Oprah is Not Gay, Folks!
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: December 16, 2010
Oprah is known everywhere around the world, and has touched nearly everyone. Her media stardom and public ministry make her omnipresent as well as omnipotent. Her converts would argue she is also omniscient, especially with her monthly oracle - O, The Oprah Magazine - pontificating the principles of self-help, self-love,...
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Thumbs up for “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: December 9, 2010
The long awaited reality series “Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys,” highlighting the unconventional relationship between heterosexual women and gay men deputed on the “Sundance Channel” on Dec. 7. The show is produced by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, the gay producers of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”And the show is...
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AIDS Still Thought of as a Gay Disease in Black America
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: December 2, 2010
To date, more than 230, 000 African Americans have died of AIDS.According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 1 in 22 African Americans will be diagnoses HIV-positive in their lifetime. And, it’s the leading cause of death among African American women between the ages of 25-34, and African American men...
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Remembering Two-Spirits this Thanksgiving
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: November 25, 2010
As I prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, I am reminded of the autumnal harvest time’s spiritual significance. As a time of connectedness, I pause to acknowledge what I have to be thankful for. But I also reflect on the holiday as a time of remembrance - historical and familial.Historically, I...
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Not Only “For Colored Girls”
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: November 11, 2010
If you’re looking for Madea (Tyler Perry in front of the camera in drag), or Black-faced versions of Sex in the City or He’s Just Not That Into You, then Mr. Perry’s adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 womanist choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf...
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Anti-Gay Bullying is Today’s Witch-Hunting
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: October 28, 2010
This Halloween many of our American children will dress up as witches. And we’ll hear their laughter and see their smiles as they joyfully go door-to-door trick-or-treating.But not all of our children will.Due to homophobic bullying some of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) children feel like they...
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Re-Introding Lesbians, Bisexual And Transgender Women Of African Descent
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: October 21, 2010
With October being “Coming Out” Month, I thought I re-introduce a subgroup in our LGBTQ community that is too often forgotten and/or ignored - lesbians, bisexual and transgender (LBT) women of African descent.I want to re-introduce this group because a groundbreaking study in July came out titled “Black Lesbians Matter”...
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When Will The Homophobic Bullying Cease?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: October 7, 2010
When Sirdeaner L. Walker of Springfield spoke at a press conference in Massachusetts last year calling for effective and comprehensive anti-bullying legislation to be passed in response to the tragic loss of her 11-year old son, Carl, I had hoped I would neither read nor hear ever again about another...
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The Messology of Bishop Eddie Long
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: September 30, 2010
When preachers pontificate too much from on High about the sins of homosexual sex, the cautionary tale is to be careful of what you say, because your words invariable will come back to bite you, as we are seeing with Bishop Eddie Long.Called by the Southern Poverty Law Center...
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An Executive Order Would Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: September 23, 2010
This week Lady Gaga joined Maine’s rally to send a message to the state’s two moderate Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, asking them to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell (DADT),” a critical vote in Congress this week.
But to no one’s surprise Senate Republicans repealed it. Democrats needed...
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Will Tea Party Climate Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: September 16, 2010
With the global-wide kerfuffle about an Islamophobic minister, Rev. Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida, threatening to burn the Koran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, little attention last week was given to a federal district court judge’s ruling that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT)” policy is unconstitutional.
“In...
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Why Johnny Can’t Think Critically
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: September 9, 2010
School is now back in session. And our children’s minds are impressionable vessels. And we trust their teachers to take precious care of them.
But can we?
We have learned over the years “Why Johnny Can’t Read,” “Why Johnny Can’t Write,” and “Why Johnny Can’t Count.”
Now...
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Can Blacks Rid Themselves of Their Use of The N-Word?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: August 19, 2010
In an attempt to dole out advice on the n-word, popular talk radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger slipped into a rant using it.When a caller - a distraught African American women who called in to be advised on how to handle racist jokes and comments hurled at her my her...
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Essence Magazine’s True Color
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: August 5, 2010
There has been a color change at Essence. After 40 years of having sisters from the African Diaspora as its fashion director, the new one is white. And the news is sending seismic shock waves to many of its subscribers here in the U.S. and across the globe.Placas, however, is...
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Jesus and the Son of Scam
By Wayne Besen Published: July 29, 2010
If one ever completely screws up his or her life and wants “redemption,” there are two courses of action. The first is a name change, with the hope that no one notices the sordid past. Don’t laugh, the technique worked for Value Jet. The airline crashed into an alligator infested...
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The Black-White Divide in Our Community
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: July 22, 2010
Boston’s Gospelfest this year featured Rev. Donnie McClurkin, the poster boy for African American ex-gay ministries, who spews anti-gay religion-based vitriol at every public event he can get as part of his outreach ministries to gay youths. But at this event, McClurkin had to refrain from his usual homophobic diatribes....
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Ex-Gay Donnie McClurkin at Boston’s Gospelfest
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: July 15, 2010
Every year Mayor Tom Menino’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events puts on its annual Boston GospelFest at City Hall Plaza. And because the Gospelfest is a public and taxpayer-funded community event, it’s opened to all- even its African American lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities.But with...
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Did You Barbecue Pig or Pug This 4th?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: July 8, 2010
What did you put on your grill this 4th of July? Pork ribs? Beef burgers? Farm raised Chickens? Or, domesticated dogs? No, not hot dogs? Dogs! The ones we walk on leashes, send to be groomed, purchase clothes to dress up and take to the vet when sick.I never asked...
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Are We Not Patriots, Too?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: July 1, 2010
This weekend we celebrate July 4 with rounds of festivities marking our nation’s 234 years of independence.But this country’s need to showcase her indomitable spirit of heroism continues to come at the expense of basic freedoms and protections denied to us lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) Americans.While it...
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Ted Haggard and New Church of Homophobia
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 17, 2010
To the disbelief of everyone- straight and gay- the Rev. Ted Haggard, former anti-gay megachurch pastor who was excommunicated for soliciting sex from a male prostitute, is starting a new church. But this one won’t blossom to be like the 14,000-member New Life Church he founded decades ago in Colorado Springs. As...
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A Pride Event to Not Be Proud Of
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 10, 2010
Pride parades will be taking place all over the country this month. As we all rev up for this year’s festivities, so, too, the fault lines of race, gender identity and class will emerge as well. In addition to Gay Pride events, there will be a segment of our LGBT...
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Obama Shifting Responsibly for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” From Himself
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: June 3, 2010
Last week, with a vote of 230 to 191, the House of Representatives voted to repeal former President Bill Clinton’s 1993 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT)” policy that bars lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer service members from the military. On the same day the House voted to repeal DADT,...
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Harvard Law Student Who Wrote Email On Black Genetic Inferiority Graduates
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: May 27, 2010
This week is Harvard’s commencement for the class of 2010. As one of the most renowned and liberal institutions in the world, it’s always hurtful and harmful — both to the campus milieu and the school’s reputation — when racist and sexist acts occur at Harvard University. Last month, a...
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Cheating Harvard
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: May 20, 2010
Adam Wheeler defrauded Harvard out of thousands of dollars: $31,000 in financial aid, $8,000 in a research grant, and $6,000 in English prizes. Many applaud his feat while others are appalled by his nerve. Had his hubris not gotten the best of him- vying for the prestigious Fulbright and Rhodes...
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Country Star Chely Wright Comes Out and Joins Faith in America
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: May 6, 2010
For months it was rumored that country music singer-songwriter Chely Wright would announce that she’s a lesbian and appear on the cover of People magazine. And this is the week, launching her seventh album, “Lifted Off the Ground,” released on Vanguard Records and her memoir, “Like Me,” published by Random...
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ROTC Marching Its Way Back to Harvard
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: April 29, 2010
For decades the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps( ROTC) was an unwelcome sight on Ivy League college campuses, like Harvard University, because of its ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) servicemembers.But in February of this year when the nation’s top two Defense officials, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and...
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Gay Community Loses Black Civil Rights ally Dorothy Height
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: April 22, 2010
Civil Rights activist Dorothy Irene Height died on April 20th at the age of 98. Of prominent African American civil rights allies to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community – Corretta Scott King, Julian Bond, and John Lewis, to name a few- Height wasn’t profiled and honored...
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The Catholic Church Needs Its Gay Priests
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: April 15, 2010
The Catholic Church is in damage control. Pope Benedict XVI won’t resign and he can’t be defrocked. And Catholics worldwide are enraged. The Church now needs a quick out, an easy solution and a fall guy to tamp down our rage and to explain away its decades-long pedophilic problem.
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The Pope’s Pedophilic Church
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: April 1, 2010
Who among us would not flinch at the thought of a “holy man” preying on children instead of praying with them?And what faith can anyone have in a church that says it stands on the teachings of Jesus yet violates his biblical mandate stated in Mark 10:14: “Let the children...
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ObamaCare Passed Passing Up Reproductive Justice
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: March 25, 2010
Eight million more women than men voted for Obama for president. And one of the reasons we did was because of his purported position on reproductive justice issues like abortion and emergency contraception (EC). For example, in 2008 he pledged to Planned Parenthood: “I will not yield” to pro-life concerns....
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Jamaica’s Gay Underground Christians
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: March 18, 2010
Sometime in the late hours of Saturday night the call will come in. Philbert (not his real name), like many of his Christian LGBT buddies, wait anxiously for the call in order to know the time and place of the van pickup, and where it’ll drop them off to a...
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Black Mothers Lost at the Oscars
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: March 11, 2010
The historical legacy of the devaluation and demonization of black motherhood was both applauded and rewarded at this year’s Oscars. And the point was clearly illustrated with Mo’Nique, capturing the gold statue for best supporting actress in the movie Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire, as a ghetto...
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Black, Queer and in Nazi Germany?!
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: February 18, 2010
Missing from the annals of African American history and the history of Nazi Germany are the documented stories and struggles of African Americans, straight and “queer.” Valaida Snow, captured in Nazi-occupied Copenhagen and interned in a concentration camp for nearly two years, is one such story forgotten every Black History...
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Honoring Notorious Gladys Bentley
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: February 11, 2010
In celebrating Black History Month, I want to personally celebrate the courage and strength of sistah-warrior Gladys Bentley (1907-1960). Bentley, a 250-pound African-American lesbian (who today we would consider transgender), was known as “America’s Greatest Sepia Piano Player” and the “Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs.” Her fall from the entertainment...
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Do we still need to celebrate Black History Month?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: February 4, 2010
Feb. 1 began Black History Month, a national annual observance since 1926, honoring and celebrating the achievements of African-Americans. This Feb. 1 the International Civil Rights Center and Museum (ICRCM) opened in Greensboro, North Carolina, honoring the courageous action of four African- American students. Their actions led to the Civil...
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Will Faith-Based Agencies Help Haiti’s Gay Community?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: January 28, 2010
Since the world community has descended on Haiti with relief aid in response to the Jan. 12 earthquake, I am wondering how Haiti’s queer communities are being helped.As one of Haiti’s most marginal groups, the question arises in response to how some American LGBT New Orleans were treated during the...
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Pat Robinson’s Theodicy on Haiti
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: January 21, 2010
Religion-based bigotry has been the mainstay of Rev. Pat Robinson’s bully pulpit. And he mounts this pulpit as an uber-God possessed with an inherent omniscience in knowing not only the mundane and wicked thoughts and actions of man but also in knowing the cataclysmic actions of God’s wrath on man.While...
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Would ML King Have Spoken Out on LGBT Justice?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: January 14, 2010
As we celebrate MLK Day 2010 we no longer have to hold King up to a God-like standard. All the hagiographies written about King immediately following his assassination in the previous century have come under scrutiny as we come to understand all of King- his greatness as well as his...
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Black Gays Invited to White House
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: January 7, 2010
Just as my enslaved ancestors could have never imagined an African American family residing in the White House, nor could my African American lesbian, gay bisexual transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) brothers and sisters who fought in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York’s Greenwich Village could imagine that one...
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The Right’s Bogus War on Christmas
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: December 24, 2009
What’s in a greeting?With Ramadan, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice and Christmas all going on this time of year, one would think that an all-inclusive seasonal greeting emblematic of our nation’s religious diversity would be embraced by us all with two simple words — Happy Holidays!!However, the season’s greeting is the...
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Race/Queer Divide Over Lesbian Priest
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: December 17, 2009
On Dec. 5 cheers reverberated across the country with the news that at the 114th annual convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles two women were elected as bishops- Rev. Diane Jardine Bruce of California, and Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool of Maryland While both elections bring their own controversy,...
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Lesbian Priest Re-ignites Storm
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: December 10, 2009
Since the 2003 consecration of the Bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the church’s first openly gay bishop, that set off a worldwide firestorm of reactions, both positive and negative, the recent election of an openly lesbian candidate, the Rev. Mary Douglas Glasspool of Baltimore, as bishop suffragan of...
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Remembering Two-Spirits This Thanksgiving
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: November 26, 2009
As I prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday, I am reminded of the autumnal harvest time’s spiritual significance. As a time of connectedness, I pause to acknowledge what I have to be thankful for. But I also reflect on the holiday as a time of remembrance - historical and familial.Historically, I...
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Pastor McClurkin’s Gay Church
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: November 19, 2009
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the largest African American and largest Pentecostal church in the United States. And as the largest denominational black church in the country it is also the loudest in rebuking homosexuality. With many of the gospel music industry mega-stars from COGIC, the church’s...
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Will Rev. Bernice King’s New Bully Pulpit at SCLC Bash Gays?
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: November 5, 2009
Rev. Bernice King has been bestowed the honor to be the eighth president and first women to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Co-founded by her father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Rev. Bernice King may be a legacy pick for SCLC, but unfortunately she will not...
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The Homophobia of Hell House
By Rev. Irene Monroe Published: October 29, 2009
This Halloween many American children will dress up as witches. And we’ll hear their laughter and see their smiles as they joyfully go from door-to-door trick-or-treating. But in some places across the globe children would never pretend to be witches because the consequences are not only dire but they can also...
