First: Leonard Pitts, Jr, with a column that might be titled (if the professional twat David Cross hadn't co-opted this phrase), "The Pride Is Back."
Excerpts:
It would be a sin against our generations, against slaves and freedmen, against housemen and washerwomen, against porters and domestics, against charred bodies hanging in Southern trees, not to be still and acknowledge that something has happened here, and it is sacred and profound.
There was something bittersweet in watching Michelle Obama lectured on American pride this year, in seeing African Americans asked to prove their American-ness when our ancestors were in this country before this country was. There was something in it that was hard to take, knowing that we have loved America when America did not love us, defended America when it would not defend us, believed in American ideals that were larger than skies, yet never large enough to include us.
Next, Gregory Turner responds, as a retired clergymam and teacher of theology, to the banning of gay marriage. He says:
With Jesus it is always the walk of love and justice that marks a faithful person. He reserved his strongest words of judgment for those who used religious moralism to undermine faithful understanding and action. The invocation of moral codes and their intimidating use against the more vulnerable of God's people undermines moral principle and perverts the intention of Christ.
Read 'em.
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