Hear that silence? That’s Pastor Ken Hutcherson not speaking against the freedom-to-marry-affirming Referendum 74 because Preserve Marriage Washington burned its bridges with him and most of Washington’s anti-gay luminaries when they seized control of the issue from the locals back in February. As a result PMW, the local arm of the Washington, D.C.-based National Organization [...]

As we all know,  there has been a sad attempt to sabotage President Obama’s support in the African-American community because of his support of marriage equality. First, there was the Coalition of African-American Pastors, an group of pastors who was encouraging African-Americans to withhold their votes in the upcoming election. Not vote for Romney, mind [...]

The National Organization for Marriage has been steadily attempting to blunt the charges that it engaged in attempts to drive a wedge between the black and gay communities on the subject of marriage equality. Ever since confidential documents came out detailing NOM’s strategy to play the gay and black communities against one another, the organization [...]

We’re all used to the Elaine Donnelly and David Blankenhorn types whose only “expertise” seems to be hating gays.  But what about those like Alveda King, Ken Hutcherson and Harry Jackson who go a step farther and command respect or imply authority by using an unearned title? Titles have a lot of power.  Deference is [...]