Che Ahn: Allowing same-sex marriage is just like having Jim Crow laws

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Rick Santorum seems smart compared to Che Ahn, as Right wing watch reports in "Ahn Equates Marriage Equality With Racist Laws":

During today’s show Holy Spirit Today, Che Ahn said that even if same-sex marriage became legal in the United States it will never be justifiable in the same way laws that didn’t consider African Americans citizens were illegitimate. Ahn is a prominent Religious Right activist who worked on the campaign to pass Proposition 8, co-founded The Call with Lou Engle, and was an official endorser of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally. He is also a vocal proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism who claims that the president of South Korea is an ‘Apostle.’

According to Ahn, LGBT equality “is not a civil rights issue” because they never had “rights taken from them.” He went on to say that same-sex couples have no right to get married just as the country banned incest and polygamy. Ahn concluded that “just because it’s legal does not mean that it’s right, at one time we had a law saying blacks were not citizens, that didn’t make that right.”

(Video at link. Just look at the shirt that Ahn is wearing...doesn't look like the best shirt to wear when preaching anti-gay bigotry.)

[Ohio Joe]

1. The stupid hurts so bad sometimes

What a fucking idiot.

[aikoaiko]

2. Some people just don't understand civil liberties.

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3. I've noticed that a lot of non-African Americans have been running around telling AAs how to think.

The almost entirely lily-white (and one Korean guy, apparently) anti-equal rights crowd is out in great force all over the country this week telling black people that they're supposed to feel offended by the struggle for gay rights. (Never mind how gay black people are supposed to feel - that's much too confusing for the bigots to wrap their little minds around.)

Meanwhile, the head of the NAACP in North Carolina came out strongly in favor of equal rights and opposed to the constitutional amendment to outlaw equal marriage and civil unions.

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4. An Asian-American group endorsed CA prop 8

some group called the Asian Heritage Coalition.