On gay rights, it's good to be out of step

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.pitts04may04,0,6922924.story

Leonard Pitts Jr.
    May 4, 2008

The Rev. James Lawson is out of step with modern Christianity.

"Mr. Lawson finds the antipathy appalling. "To unite with white Christian fundamentalism like Pat Robertson is an absolute disgrace. For black people to pretend that kind of Christian fundamentalism, which justified slavery and justifies racism, is a colleague in anything is to be blind to the realities that we're facing. We who have suffered and do suffer should be the most sensitive to the suffering of others. We don't want this undeserved suffering put on us, and we should therefore, clearly, not participate in putting such suffering on others. We ought to know better.""