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Article: Leonard Pitts
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2004
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Blacks, gays know what it means to struggle
Saturday, March 13, 2004
Call it an object lesson in the quality of equality.
I refer to last week's Senate subcommittee hearing on a proposed
constitutional amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage. Specifically, I
refer to an exchange between two leaders of the black community.
The first leader, Hilary Shelton, director of the Washington
bureau of the NAACP, argued that the amendment "would use the
Constitution to discriminate." Which brought a sharp retort from the
second, the Rev. Richard Richardson, chairman of political affairs
for the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston Inc. Defining
marriage as the union of a woman and a man, ...