I can understand members of the black community not necessarily being on board with precisely equating the civil-rights and gay-marriage struggles. But what the Rev. Tom Scott, a black, anti-discrimination bastion and former Tampa City Council member and Hillsborough County commissioner, said on the subject recently was still dumbfounding.
“The black community sees the issue of being gay or lesbian as a decision,” Scott told the Tampa Tribune. “But in the case of African-Americans, it was not a decision, it was their color. You were born black.”
Upon further reflection, that flawed, “decision” contrast is not so much dumbfounding as it is dumb.