Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‘s niece, the outspoken and extremely anti-gay Alveda King, in a carefully-worded statement, attacked the NAACP today for their decision to publicly support same-sex marriage this weekend.
“Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced the homosexual agenda that the current NAACP is attempting to label as a civil rights agenda,” said Dr. Alveda C. King, founder of King for America and Pastoral Associate for Priests for Life, as the Christian Newswire reported.
“In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free,” King also stated.
King, who has been married and divorced three times, made the statements in conjunction with other African-American leaders, with whom, conveniently, she wrote a book, about the anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage movements, titled, Life At All Costs.
Alveda King, who has linked same-sex marriage equality to “genocide,” and for decades has fought to exclude the battle for LGBT rights from the civil rights movement her uncle embodied, grossly ignores so many important facts that one might have to wonder how willfully ignorant a person an be.
Alveda King ignores the fact that Julian Bond, Chairman Emeritus of the NAACP, who knew well Martin Luther King, Jr., has supported marriage equality as a civil right for a long time.
Alveda King has falsely claimed, “To equate homosexuality with race is to give a death sentence to civil rights. No one is enslaving homosexuals…or making them sit in the back of the bus,” and “Homosexuality cannot be elevated to the civil rights issue. The civil rights movement was born from the Bible. God hates homosexuality.”
Alveda King obviously has not comprehended the Bible, which supports and advocates in favor of slavery, a rather embarrassing fact.
Another embarrassing fact for Alveda King. Take, for example the fact that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s right hand man, Bayard Rustin, was gay. Rustin was the architect of Dr. King’s famous 1963 March on Washington. Surely, if Dr. King were as anti-gay as his niece, he would not have worked with Rustin? Alveda King ignores this fact.
Another face Alveda King ignores is that her uncle’s wife, was fully supportive of LGBT rights and same-sex marriage.
In 1996, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s wife, spoke at the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Pride Festival in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, in support of full gay and lesbian equality. Mrs. King said at the Festival, “I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.â€
And in 2003, Coretta Scott King said:
 I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people. … But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream, to make room at the table of brotherhood and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.
A rather inconvenient truth, and one that I think allows us to question Alveda King’s honor and grasp of facts. Call that what you will.
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