Op Ed: Will Rev. Bernice King’s bully pulpit at SCLC bash gays?

Rev. Bernice King has been bestowed the honor to be the eighth president and first women to head the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

Co-founded by her father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Rev. Bernice King may be a legacy pick for SCLC, but unfortunately she will not be carrying on his legacy.
 
As a matter-of-fact, given the homophobic vitriol Rev. Bernice King has spewed out over the years the LGBTQ community is bracing to see what next she'll say and do given the bully pulpit she now has.
 
Because Rev. Bernice King has been rumored for years to be a lesbian, her track record concerning LGBTQ civil rights has been less than humane and antithetical to both legacies of her parents.
 
For example, Rev. Bernice King's most audacious sign of desecrating her father's legacy was the December 2004 march titled "Stop the Silence, " promoting an anti-gay agenda.
 
Beginning the protest march by lighting a torch at her father's grave site and then passing it on to her spiritual mentor and the march organizer, Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church who proudly carried the lit torch in a two-mile march through Atlanta with thousands of followers, Rev. Bernice King adamantly stated that the march was not against LGBTQ people. It's a "need for God's People to stop being silent" and being " about God's business of speaking up for the Kingdom of God," King told Associated Press.
 
However, contrary to her claims, the first goal of the march listed on the church's website promoted a constitutional amendment to protect marriage "between one man and one woman."

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