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