NAACP Leader is unclear on the meaning of "civil" and "rights"

Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr., self-appointed civil-rights gatekeeper

A leader of the NAACP has come out attacking gays, and he is demanding the “gay community stop hijacking the civil rights movement.” Rev. Keith Ratliff Sr., president of the Iowa-Nebraska chapter of the NAACP, spoke at a marriage rally in Des Moines on Tuesday, adding, “Deviant behavior is not the same as being denied your right to vote,” and calling any parallel between the African-American civil rights movement and the gay civil rights movement an “insult.”
Ratliff, according to reports, also condemned any idea that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would have supported gay rights or civil same-sex marriage.
This is not Ratliff’s first attack on the LGBT community, and it directly counters his leadership role at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), whose mission clearly states, “is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.”
Ratliff’s anti-gay actions also go directly against the teachings of the NACCP’s president, and Chairman, Benjamin Jealous, and Jealous’ predecessor, Julian Bond. Additionally, Dr. King’s right-hand man, Bayard Rustin, who planned the historic march on Washington, was openly-gay.

Ratliff is quoted as saying, ”We believe the homosexual lifestyle is wrong,” and in an infamous op-ed wrote that “everything about homosexuality conflicts with natural law,” and added, “homosexuality will always be un-natural and un-healthy.”

Ratliff may want to rethink that "natural law" argument--at one time, slavery proponents argued that black people's natural place was to be owned and controlled by the "superior" white race.
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