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In reply to the discussion: Mr. President, the GayTM is no longer in service. [View all]bigtree
(94,200 posts). . . but for whatever reasons he chose to allow that hater priest to close the convention (and I think it was done out of ignorance, more than out of some hate or antipathy toward the LGBT community) it was wrong to have him speak; even in prayer.
I'd go so far as to say that his ignorance in allowing the hater priest is rooted in a deeper lack of understanding of the cancerous hatred that relishes in the light he allowed the priest to stand under. He very well should understand; and would understand if he would equate the LGBT struggle for respect and room for dignity with the one which his generation of black Americans gained the support of the majority of the nation to overcome.
I very much respect your decision and I'm extremely sorry that the hater priest was allowed to speak at our convention (whoever's fault it was or why).