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Oct 22, 2004
By Marc Rogers
Drawing the distinction
In chapel at Southwestern Seminary, pastor Dwight McKissic decries comparisons between the civil rights movement and gay rights. Photo by Margie Dolch/SWBTS
FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--The suffering of the homosexual does not compare with the suffering of the black man in America, Dwight McKissic told a chapel audience at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
McKissic is senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, and founder of the “Not on My Watch” coalition.
“When homosexuals have spent over 200 years in slavery, when homosexuals have been legally defined as three-fifths human, when homosexuals have been denied the right to vote and own property because they are homosexuals, then we can begin a discussion of parallels [between the civil rights and gay rights movements],” McKissic said Oct. 13 at the Fort Worth, Texas, campus.
Referring to the case of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black killed for whistling at a white woman in 1955 and the tragic history of the lynching of blacks in America, McKissic said, “No white lesbian has ever been murdered for whistling at another white girl. But black men have been murdered for even a perceived interest in white women.”