LGBT African Americans: Homophobia in the Black Community

The Black community is filled with hypocrisy.  Recently, I had a raging debate about gay marriage with a friend of mine who is a Christian and holier than thou. He feels that gays should be put on an island somewhere away from the God-fearing, good, self-righteous heterosexuals and compared homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia, which is the silliest shit ever since it is illegal to have sex with children and animals.  He also called me a bleeding heart liberal who unless I repent my evil, wicked ways is going to hell.

My counter argument was that marriage is a basic civil right that should not be denied based on sexual orientation and that Blacks who are homophobic need to be ashamed for aligning themselves with bigotry. I also reminded him that I was already doomed for hell since my mother was not married when she gave birth to me and according to Deuteronomy 23:2 “A bastard shall not enter in to the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.”

Naturally, he took offense at my words and stormed off.  However, that backwards, overtly religious thinking about homosexuality in the African American community is one of our many problems.  Many Blacks become automatic Christians when it comes to equal rights for gays while ignoring the many social ills that are plaguing our people.

The Black church has jumped on the homophobia bandwagon full throttle. It is always nice to have someone to feel superior to, especially if you are not that superior yourself. And it is certainly a great way to get into the power and money racket—the gays are gonna get you and destroy everything you love—the same rhetoric that White conservati­ve Christians have been using for decades. Why should only White people get to tap into that? Eddie Long, anyone?
 

And it is certainly a great deal easier to rage against the gay community than doing something about the fact that in the African American community 70% children are born out of wedlock compared to the rest of America. Our children are growing up without fathers and running amok without any guidance but the Black church do not want to talk about that.  Our communities are plagued with rampant unemployme­nt, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and poverty but these issues are ignored because it is so much easier for all concerned to beat up on gay people.