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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 06:21 AM Jun 2014

Baptist leader: Equal rights for gays is like forcing blacks to serve KKK ceremonies

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/05/baptist-leader-equal-rights-for-gays-is-like-forcing-blacks-to-serve-kkk-ceremonies/



Baptist leader: Equal rights for gays is like forcing blacks to serve KKK ceremonies
By David Edwards
Thursday, June 5, 2014 15:31 EDT

Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary, this week likened equal rights for LGBT people to forcing African-Americans to participate in KKK induction ceremonies.

During a radio interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins that was obtained by the blog Good As You on Thursday, Land addressed a recent order by the Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission that required Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples. A December ruling by the commission had found that Phillips discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to serve them.

“This baker did not refuse to serve these people,” Land insisted. “He offered them his services – he just did not want to provide his services as part of a gay wedding ceremony.”

“This would be like going to a bakery owned by an African-American, and saying, ‘By the way, you have to bake a cake for a KKK induction ceremony, under penalty of law.’”
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