In fact they are sincere believers, determined to end our rights. Too many of us think that it is NOT important for us to contribute time and money to help continue our struggle for equal rights. In fact any one of our primary adversaries raises more money every month in part to end those rights than our entire community raises in a year to preserve and protect them. Too many of us think the danger is passed and that time is on the side of justice. In fact Dr. King made it very clear.
Time is on the side of injustice.
Even if Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and the others look to you like fools who are losing power, their anti-homosexual rhetoric is reaching critical mass in the homes and churches of our childhood. Let these documents remind us that it could happen again. All it would take is for you or for me to do nothing. In 1997, the Rev. Dr. Mel White received the ACLU's National Civil Liberties Award for applying the 'soul force' principles of Gandhi and King to the liberation of sexual minorities.